Think about it they can travel between stars in a reasonable time, which means they can fly very very fast.
All they need is an old ship waiting for scrap and tada they've got a weapon that makes nukes looks like firecrackers.
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Think about it they can travel between stars in a reasonable time, which means they can fly very very fast.
All they need is an old ship waiting for scrap and tada they've got a weapon that makes nukes looks like firecrackers.
why?
It doesn't matter if they are peaceful, nuclear fusion is a great source of power, it's how stars work after all. If they have mastered space travel, they would have worked out how a star can release so much energy.
Or how about the likelyhood of life is precious in the universe, and they are trying their best to stop us destroying ourselves.
Not that I believe in it of course.
I believe life is out there, but not that it is visiting us. I do not believe in the star trek universe.
Not that I believe in it of course.
I believe life is out there, but not that it is visiting us. I do not believe in the star trek universe.
Surely if that was the case then a far better method would be to actually just take a nuke, rather then fly about deactivating them with light beams.
I guess its because we look at our own history where most of our greatest technological achievements have come about as a result of conflict rather than peace, combined with our history that most people in history who explored a new land did so by way of conflict and conquer rather than being nice and friendly. As such we apply that to other species, even Hawkings thinks that if aliens ever came here it would be to be aggressive rather than peaceful.
maybe the travel very slow but are very long lived? or maybe they can jsut turn off for a few 1000 years...
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the whole interested in nuclear arch is interesting.....
theres a few theories out there that would suggest that a alien race capable of space travel would have had to of for-gone other tech advancements, so maybe they have never seen nuclear?
or maybe they have and need the nuclear to get home? or to power the cloaked mothership hiding in earths orbit (jokes about the last sentence btw)
it would be amazing, if we discovered life outside our own in this century - but id imagine this world would fall apart bc of it.
theres a few theories out there that would suggest that a alien race capable of space travel would have had to of for-gone other tech advancements, so maybe they have never seen nuclear?
or maybe they have and need the nuclear to get home? or to power the cloaked mothership hiding in earths orbit (jokes about the last sentence btw)
it would be amazing, if we discovered life outside our own in this century - but id imagine this world would fall apart bc of it.
Because no one has shown any proof.
And before anyone throws a religious comparision at me, aliens visiting the earth is clearly a scientifically testable hypothesis.
If "aliens" were interested in our nuclear weapons, I imagine it would be more out of curiosity than any perception of threat. The way we design such weapons, and even the reason we would want to possess such things and not use them, might tell them a great deal about our nature.
But, almost by definition, we could never understand the reasons behind the things that they do. A cat or a dog, for example, can't understand the reasons behind the things that we do, even though they can comprehend that we exist, are basically similar to them (more so than inanimate objects or prey), and can understand the very basic function of our technology (tin opener collar/lead etc). In a similar way, we cannot expect to understand the thought-processes of vastly superior alien intelligences which at, the very least, have evolved under very different conditions to us, and may not even be biological.
But, almost by definition, we could never understand the reasons behind the things that they do. A cat or a dog, for example, can't understand the reasons behind the things that we do, even though they can comprehend that we exist, are basically similar to them (more so than inanimate objects or prey), and can understand the very basic function of our technology (tin opener collar/lead etc). In a similar way, we cannot expect to understand the thought-processes of vastly superior alien intelligences which at, the very least, have evolved under very different conditions to us, and may not even be biological.
Nuclear fission and fusion are such a basic concepts that it seems absolutely impossible that any species could evolve to the point of inter-stellar travel without understanding it. Nuclear fusion, for example, is the mechanism by which stars produce energy.
They may not have chosen to harness nuclear fission to produce a sudden and destructive blast, and it may be that such an idea is very strange to them - after all there are not many useful positive outcomes to a sudden and destructive blast, at least for a species that is confined to a single planet. But still it's hard to imagine that they do not understand the technology.
If they have any understanding of radioactivity, then they will understand fission.
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basic to us but maybe not to them? perhaps they skipped this completely and our understanding of physics is totally different to their's???
it was only recently scientists said that other galaxies may have completely different laws of physics to our own.
not necessarily. depends what resources/minerals wherever they come from has . for example they might have some super amazing oil equivalent that lets them go so far/fast but then might not hace uranium sort of things.
or maybe these people got so bored watching nuclear weapons 24/7 they turned to drugs
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I found the last 10 minutes of the Disclosure Conference more interesting than the testimonials at the start. The only proof of the possibility of Alien life that we need is Planet Earth. If they are claiming that there are UFOs visiting us and they don't have a clue as to why. I can except that if they are being truthful with their testimonials, that we are being visited by aliens. To what end no one knows but if they are more interest in weapon systems then anything else I would be concerned. For all we know they could be more aggressive and greed driven than ourselves, and our planet could be one of the best around.
I'm not arguing against that... Any inter-stellar capable race should understand fission and fusion (as well as the approximations that we call relativity, quantum mechanics, and for beyond).
My point was simply that they not have ever, in their past, have chosen to harness fission to make a bomb. A device created to suddenly and release a huge amount of energy could be curious to them, as there is little practical application for such a device.