Aliens attack! Nasty locust skull suckers with super tech built by slave worlds...

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Lancer
Zkrib, we're trying to have a serious discussion about brain sucking locust aliens and saving the world and you bring up politics?

[Lancer]

Anything I can help you guys with?

Look, I figure the dilemma is this:

The skull sucking aliens are making life really miserable as the masses are being rounded up and used for feeding and breeding, all to supply the aliens with brain food. No decent life for a once proud humanity. Noone but brainless blonde females would remain unmolested, quite a change imo.

So. As president you are faced with a choice. Nuke the world in order to destroy enough of humanity that the aliens have no reason to hang around, or let humanity exist through the eons as mere cattle raised to have their brains sucked out while still alive.

The problem is nuking the world enough to make it pointless for the aliens to hang around but not so much that we go extinct.

Luckily, and after the aliens have left, we have everything we need to make caves to grow food in and the tech to provide energy for the caves. A thriving civilization could thus be built underground, unnoticed by aliens. Perhaps our tech could evolve far enough that we could contact the slave worlds that are forced to help the locust skull suckers. We can only hope...

Anyway, the cave civ would be free of aliens and non comunist.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lancer
Look, I figure the dilemma is this:

Hueij has the best solution

[Vince278]

I'm in favor of using the caves as bases and fighting back (kind of like X-Com or UFO Aftermath).

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


That is one of the hypotheses. The current thought isn't the asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs singlehandedly, it merely hastened their exit as they had been in decline. There were other catastrophic events, like a huge tectonic volcano eruption in what is Siberia today. Plus, that asteroid was huge. Much, much bigger than any single nuclear warhead in stockpile. Even so, most other lifeforms survived.

I read somewhere recently that the combined energy of the nuclear stockpile is less than that of a hurricane.

Well anyway, it was scientifically proven by Carl Sagan that the combined arsenals of the US and SU in the late 1970s would produce enough atmospheric ash to inflict a nuclear winter around the globe lasting up to 6 months, and therefore likely to wipe out most of humanity..

[GePap]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Well anyway, it was scientifically proven by Carl Sagan that the combined arsenals of the US and SU in the late 1970s would produce enough atmospheric ash to inflict a nuclear winter around the globe lasting up to 6 months, and therefore likely to wipe out most of humanity..

There is a LOT of skepticism about Sagan's claim. To state is was proven is a bit much.

[Lancer]

What was the deal with Sagan anyway. I heard he commited some great crime?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Well anyway, it was scientifically proven by Carl Sagan that the combined arsenals of the US and SU in the late 1970s would produce enough atmospheric ash to inflict a nuclear winter around the globe lasting up to 6 months, and therefore likely to wipe out most of humanity..

6 months of total darkness with an average surface temperature of 0°C or 6 months of slightly obstructed sunlight with a slightly lower surface temperature? There's a huge range there...

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Lancer
What was the deal with Sagan anyway. I heard he commited some great crime?

Kind of like Erich von Danken. Long on theory, short on proofs. The Biblecode of Cosmology.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
What was the deal with Sagan anyway. I heard he commited some great crime?

Bah, scientific snobbery! Sagen was a popular scientist/astonomer who had the ability to explain stuff to everyday people. He also wrote the book upon which Jodie Foster's Contact movie was based.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Vince278
The Biblecode of Cosmology.

How do you do that?

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
How do you do that?

Bad example.
He presented theories as the way things were. Personally, I have nothing against him. I hate it when people dumb things down for the common masses (it can be sooo condescending) but on the positive side he did get alot of people interested in cosmology and thats what is important.

[Urban Ranger]

I reckon you need popular science writers (Asimov being another famous one) to make science more accessable to the masses. Granted, sometimes they need to simplify things, but the work is important.

Sagan also wrote The Demon-Haunted World, which is a nice book on critical thought and science.

[Vince278]

I've been reading the two books Brian Greene has on the best seller list. Highly recommend.

[MrFun]

dancing bananas have been known to live in caves for an extended period of time




LOOK!!! I SEE ONE -- IT HAS COME OUT OF A CAVE!!