Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:q5q1m6018ee@drn.newsguy.com:
> https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/if-the-space-force-won-t-fight-aliens
> -who-the-hell-wil-1833079619
>
> Late last week, military news site Task & Purpose confirmed a
> disturbing fact: the newly created U.S. Space Force has no intention
> of fighting aliens. Despite the recent uptick of military UFO
> sightings, the Pentagon appears uninterested (at least officially) in
> the possibility of hostile aliens. But if an alien invasion does take
> place, which arm of the Pentagon would respond? The answer: probably
> all of them.
>
>
> the revelation last year that U.S. Navy fighter jets encountered
>
> If the unidentified flying objects described by Navy pilots, as well
> as military and civilian personnel for the past seventy years, are
> really of extraterrestrial origin and unfriendly, how would the
> Pentagon deal with them?
>
> https://youtu.be/3RlbqOl_4NA
>
> If UFOs suddenly descended from the skies, toasting the Statue of
> Liberty, the Great Mall of America, and the Golden Gate Bridge with
> death rays, the Pentagon would need to convene some sort of study
> group to quickly determine what kind of threat it was dealing with. If
> that happens, forget the Air Force.
>
> Ironically, the service that would most likely take the lead is the
> U.S. Navy.
>
> Why the Navy? Aliens would likely come from vast distances, traveling
> light years in long distance voyages, to smash puny humans. The U.S.
> Navy is unique among the services in planning similar, though much,
> the case of submarines the pressure is on the outside, while in space
> the pressure is on the inside of the vehicle. From an operational and
> technical standpoint, aliens and sailors have a few things in common.
>
> There are other reasons the Navy might take the lead. Seventy-one
> operated from the water (remember, the 2004 sighting included reports
> of a 737-sized object on the surface of the ocean) the Navy is unique
> in having manned aircraft, surface ships, and submarines prowling
> above, on, and below the surface of the ocean. The Navy could also
> a military presence for weeks or months, to investigate and monitor
> for enemy activity.
>
> and bombers could only remain on station for mere minutes or hours
> really a big deal, but against an alien threat we know nothing
> will be less useful.
>
> If humans could lure aliens into a set-piece battle the Air Force
> could bring a lot of firepower, but how one lures aliens into battle
> control of the Air Force, would contribute to the alien war by
> timing/GPS satellites, communication satellites, and other space-based
> assets.
>
> The Army would be the service responsible if aliens attempted a
> landing in the United States, or presumably one of our allies. The
> destroy the aliens with fire and maneuver. It would be in many ways
> similar to countering an airborne landing, with the Army attempting to
> reinforcements. The Marines could also get in on the alien fighting,
> one would like to think aliens would be smart enough to avoid that
> region and the prospect of their own 18-year war altogether.
>
> Of course, all of this is contingent on the U.S. military being on par
> with alien technology... which, frankly, is extremely unlikely. The
> universe is billions of years old, and other races could easily have a
> head start of a million years or more on us. And certainly, any
> species capable of interstellar flight is far more technologically
> advanced.
>
> Consider that a handful of 21st century tanks could crush an army from
> the 11th century, or even the 19th century for that matter. Even a
> difference of a thousand years would be ample enough to ensure
> trip/bachelor party.
>
> If aliens do exist, ultimately it may not matter if they are hostile
> or not. Our destruction at their hands would be about as inevitable as
> destruction from an extinction-level meteor impact. They could even be
> friendly, the combination of advanced, destructive technology and
> violent tendencies leading to intelligent life self-screening itself
> from interstellar travel. (That would be bad news for humanity.) The
> the Pentagon has a plan to fight aliens after all.
Stephen Hawking was right. Using SETI to send out
greeting signals to aliens is exactly the wrong thing
to do. History has shown that when an advanced culture
discovers a more primitive one the primitive always
loses. The best we can hope for is that aliens seeing
our existing radio traffic would judge us too primitive
and lacking in exploitable resources to bother with.
It is only when we pose a threat of expansion into
their turf that they will spend the energy to destroy
us. Quickly and utterly. And using a method we cannot
defend against, like wiping out the ozone layer or
disrupting our magnetic shield. Earth would become
Mars very quickly.
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