How to deal with none earth spacecraft?

[Hielor]

But if we had the advantage; naturally trying to be The Galaxy's Police would bring good press back home.

Because acting as the world's police has done so much good for America...

 

[Unstung]

I find these related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia#Sleep_paralysis
(Last sentence.)

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis"]Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[T.Neo]

Because acting as the world's police has done so much good for America...

Yeah, but America hasn't liberated whole planet of aliens.

Was mostly tongue-in-cheek, anyway. :lol:

 

[jedidia]

Would land in the biggest conetration of said beings get out (assuming you have protective suit of course) and say hi were from earth, this is our space ship?
or would we study and observe?

If there's something of value, we'd probably land and say "all ur warez are us!", put them all to a part of the planet we think is useless, label it all an "area where the indeginous culture can live undisturbed by outside influences", later learn that the part of the planet we thought was useless has some valuable materials to get after all, relocate them again, and if that's getting too annoying we'll give them cheap booze (or whatever they use), watch them getting addicted and then saying "see, We told you they can't make it on their own", and redistribute them in "rehabilitation centers".
If there's nothing of value, there will probably be a small army of scientists wanting to study the indeginous life, but they won't be able to do so for very long because gouvernements will loose interest in funding the venture after 5 years, wherupon we'll just leave them to their own devices.

 

[jb42682]

In my short time in existance I have always found to be one constant truth. The impossible almost always becomes possible. For example quantum physics tell us if you hold your hand against a wall long enough eventually The particals will realign at random allowing your hand to pass thru it in a brief moment.

Our "moral society" is based on ancient text in various religons and humans interpet this txt so that it apply's to them only. I have noticed that very slowly but surley were starting to relize that there is a lot more out there. And by doing this we stop thinking as country,region,state,county,city. And start thinking as a one planet among trillions.

Like I said in the first post this is a mind excersise. I want to get you thinking about these possiblites. The more question we ask. We try to find the answers which brings understanding.

Think of this way the universe is our mother. Were about 1yr old in tech and understanding were just crawling and begging to learn to walk ie the space shuttle,apollo. One day will learn to run! WARP SPEED:leaving:

 

[T.Neo]

For example quantum physics tell us if you hold your hand against a wall long enough eventually The particals will realign at random allowing your hand to pass thru it in a brief moment.

Uh... yeah... maybe... sortof... in septillions of cosmoses. :uhh:

 

[N_Molson]

First try to establish contact with various means. If no response, then it can be assumed hostile.

If anything manages to travel quickly to our system, then there is nothing to do. Mastering inter-systems travels means an enormous technological superiority.

If it's more something like a colony ship that took centuries or thousands years to get there, the earlier we can detect it, the better it is (spectroscopy could tell us it's more "organic" than it should). Then sending a probe would be necessary.

About fighting in space, our best weapons today are, IMHO, rockets. Build dozens of Proton, Ariane & Delta-H rockets, then load them with the biggest warheads (of course nuclear weapons) you can. Maybe firing a salvo of 100 rockets could overhelm a potential defense system.

 

[Izack]

What about the infrastructure required for these rockets? If you want to launch them quickly, you'd need a tower/silo for every single rocket.
And that's just one of the problems...

 

[fireballs619]

IMHO, rockets would not be the best option there. If they developed the craft for interstellar travel, I would assume it's pretty strong. I think our best bet would be electronic warfare (ie sabotaging their life support, taking down any type if shield they have, Independence Day style ). At the risk of introducing many Star Wars references to this thread, I think directed energy weapons would be useful, also. After all, space is a vacuum, so you don't have interfering particles breaking up the stream.

 

[N_Molson]

Alternatively, you can prepare troops for guerilla fighting on the ground. Knowing every rock, every cave, every lake can alway's make the enemy's life difficult, despite of it's technological superiority.

In 9 AD, 3 romans legions (which were well trained, heavily armed and armoured) were slaughtered in the Teutoberg forest by tribes of Germans fighting with axes and spears.

Native Americans won their battles in marshes, swamps and forests, ambushing the European invaders, where technological superiority (firearms) was less decisive.

Afghanistan tribal fighters defeated the Red Army tanks bataillons and are still a match for the US army, which has an enormous technological superiority.

But you can't defend cities or strategic places this way, so most of the humanity would die.

 

[Izack]

IMHO, rockets would not be the best option there. If they developed the craft for interstellar travel, I would assume it's pretty strong. I think our best bet would be electronic warfare (ie sabotaging their life support, taking down any type if shield they have, Independence Day style ). At the risk of introducing many Star Wars references to this thread, I think directed energy weapons would be useful, also. After all, space is a vacuum, so you don't have interfering particles breaking up the stream.

There was a pretty good thread about that:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=16197

 

[T.Neo]

I think our best bet would be electronic warfare (ie sabotaging their life support, taking down any type if shield they have, Independence Day style ).

Good luck doing that, knowing nothing about how their hardware/software works and what countermeasures it has.

But you can't defend cities or strategic places this way, so most of the humanity would die.

Assuming that they wanted to attack major cities (if they want to commit genocide, they could use far more effective methods that we likely wouldn't have a chance defending against). Of course, even if they did target major cities with WMDs, it's entirely possible that small groups of humans could survive and prove troublesome to any ground invasion force via subsistance and guerilla tactics.

 

[Sky Captain]

If potential alien invaders just want us dead and don't care about wrecking the Earth biosphere then there is nothing we could do to stop that. If they are coming in spacecraft flying close to speed of light they could just release few dozen tons of random garbage aimed at Earth before starting deceleration burn and that would take care of us.

If they want Earth intact then bioweapons probably would be the way to go because fighting a conventional ground war is not an option for alien colonizators especially if their technology is limited to the physics we know because they would be hugely outnumbered.

 

[T.Neo]

You can be limited to the "physics we know" and still have pretty scary armament.

Heck, P-51s and F-22s both work on the same physics....