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Subject: If Earth Was Attacked
L4zyB0i    3/9/2006 4:32:29 PM
How many men can some of the larger nations draft and arm to resist an invasion? China, US, Russia, India, EU all seem to be capapble of putting up quite a fight, and any invasion would likely be highly disadvantaged numbers wise. Its really hard to take enough soldiers from your planet to attack one lightyears away that can arm 100 million plus soldiers. So first off, how many soldiers does the world have in its armed forces right now while we are mostly all at peace? Secondly, how many could we equip to fight? Although there hasnt been another world war to show us the Earth's industrial might, we must have at least doubled what we were capable of producing during the 40's right? The US in its 4 years of total war in WW2 built close to 300,000 combat aircraft. Granted, planes have gotten more complicated and more expensive, but their capability's have also taken a quantum leap. Would we win with sheer numbers alone if we united to defend our planet?
 
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L4zyB0i    RE:If Earth Was Attacked...Here's a conspiracy theory   4/1/2006 10:56:46 PM
"Anyone thought of orbital bombardment. We would be pretty defenseless against that sort of thing." Don't we have the capability to set our ICBMs for orbital explosion?
 
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smitty237    RE:If Earth Was Attacked...Here's a conspiracy theory   4/2/2006 1:28:42 AM
My gosh. We had better be pretty desperate before we resort to firing off our ICBMs for orbital explosion. One can only imagine what kind of damage that would do to us. Clearly, the aliens would have an advantage over us in space technology, but in order to subjugate us they would need to deploy ground forces. This is the area in which we Earthlings may excel. Consider this: the aliens, because of their advanced space technology, have failed to progress in ground warfare. Perhaps they deploy their ground forces in massed, phalanx formations. They may possess plasma or laser weapons, but because their tactics have not developed like ours have, they deploy such weapons much like European armies used muskets and artillery in the 19th century. The aliens could suffer a significant amount of casualties at the hands of the fire and maneuver armies used by most of the armies on Earth. The aliens would need to adapt, but perhaps because of some martial code they are unable to, and are unable to defeat the puny Terrans.
 
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Ehran    RE:If Earth Was Attacked...Here's a conspiracy theory   4/2/2006 5:14:30 PM
read an interesting story along those lines where the aliens never developed the tank concept at all. our chances vs aliens would be about the same as an anthill vs a child with a stick. just imagine how well the best roman legions would have done vs a modern tank division and then imagine a far greater tech gap than that.
 
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andyf    RE:If Earth Was Attacked..   4/6/2006 5:57:27 PM
I should think what would happen would be orbital laser or kinetic strikes on any missiles we launched, thier launch pads, the installations that gave the orders, and all the way back. aircraft would be next, finally they would pop our tanks one by one. maybe they would keep us as pets
 
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EnigmaNZ    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    4/15/2006 1:02:18 AM
It realy depends what the invaders want, and whether we are considered expendable. If they want the resources, scorched Earth from space pretty much leaves us in deep doogy doo. If they want humankind as slaves, food, etc, then there is hope as it is more likely to be ground based. But then again any race that can traversed the stars could probably whip up a dose of viruses to give us all diarrohea which will have us on our knees begging for relief. Global EMP pulses would wipe out most of the worlds' industrial capacity in a heatbeat. Whatever way you look at it, unlike what we see in the movies or on TV, we are screwed.
 
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kane    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    5/24/2006 8:27:01 AM
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well do we know the technology of the invaders.NO so this seems silly to me.how do we know if bullets or nukes would kill them or not
 
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andyf    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    5/25/2006 1:00:28 PM
bullets and nukes work off physics,, its likely theyll work. the problem is that they will have had similar and for a lot longer, we would probably never get into range, consider an old sailing man-o-war with smoothbore cannons. if it sideled up to a modern frigate and gave it a broadside it would cause quite a lot of damage,it might even sink it. whats the chances of it ever getting close enough? even a 60 year technology gap is quite enough to render you helpless- put the prinz eugen against a ticonderoga class cruiser- its just a live fire exercise
 
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Ehran    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    5/25/2006 1:40:03 PM
put the prinz eugen against a ticonderoga class cruiser- its just a live fire exercise pretty thin odds the tech gap will be anything like that close.
 
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JohnBarry    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    5/25/2006 3:36:39 PM
I sure it has been mentioned before, but if you haven?t read Harry Turtledove's "World at War? series, it pretty good. Earth is invaded right in the middle of WW2 by lizards. The lizard?s culture advances at a steady but very slow pace. Their empire has existed for thousand of years. The lizards have interstellar space technology and their ground and air forces are more advanced than ours but not that much, maybe present day technology. They have nuclear weapons but can?t really use them because they want to colonize the Earth not blow it up. They also have not fought a war in something like 10,000 years so they are tactically incompetent. The Lizard kick *ss when they first arrive just on pure firepower, but after that humans start to adapt and steal the alien?s technology and reengineer it.
 
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Heorot    RE:If Earth Was Attacked    5/25/2006 4:55:44 PM
Try Jerry Pournelles "Footfall". The aliens also want to use the earth for themselves but they immobilise Earths military by destroying all ships (not just military) bigger than a fishing boat and all road and rail bridges. Earth wins of course, but by psychology rather than might.
 
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