Poll: First Contact - If Intelligent Aliens Arive, Would They Invade?

[Thaluikhain]

The better question is; why wouldn't they?

If life on Earth is anything to extrapolate from, there would be no reason for a much superior force and race to conquer a lesser one. Hell, the only reason it doesn't happen with humanity right now is MAD; if MAD didn't exist then there would be no reason for the United States or Russia or China or the EU to NOT try to physically dominate the other nations.

The other nations have things they want, in a habitat humans can easily live in. That's unlikely to be true from an alien PoV, anything they want (excepting living things) can be got easier elsewhere.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Invade with an all out war?
That just seems illogical, for a species with reliable inter-solar travel we would be no more then monkeys in a cage, sure we can throw some rocket poo at them but that is the full extent of our abilities.
If they wanted something they would just take it at arms length and probe it's anus obviously...
Maybe in an extreme case where a dying society manages to only construct one life boat and they shoot it for their most promising planet found and upon arrival they have no choice but to fend for themselves here, still an all out war is just a terrible option.

Biodiversity is probably the only thing they would really want to take, resources same as ours are plentiful through all planets so that would not make sense to come and get on our rock, more then likely they would just study our oddball planet.

 

[pookie101]

we would be seen as a potential threat and the simplest way to deal with us is a very large asteroid or two, maybe orbital bombardment of what ever weapons they have but if they wanted to take the planet relatively intact then a species specific plague of some type would do the job pretty simply if it was airborne and very hard to detect with a longish incubation period.

they could also just plain ignore us and start terraforming and introducing new species enmass

hell EMP our planet and the only ones with power and tech left would be the military but equally they would have to deal with society collapse world wide

or just a combination instead of just one to be sure

 

[Tilly]

Unless they're currently living hidden somewhere in the solar system, they'd have to have insane technology in order to get here. So we probably won't have anything of interest to them. Except Vidya Gamezzzz