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  • B Brady Kelly

    Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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    Christian Graus
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    When I worked at the electrical engineering dept of MElbourne Uni, we got a letter from a retired army man, urging us to work out how space ships fly, as such an engine would be wonderful for the defence of our country.

    Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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      When I worked at the electrical engineering dept of MElbourne Uni, we got a letter from a retired army man, urging us to work out how space ships fly, as such an engine would be wonderful for the defence of our country.

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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      Brady Kelly
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      :wtf:

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      • B Brady Kelly

        Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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        Dario Solera
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        Well, if aliens attacked us for conquering the Earth's resources we could tell them to go that newly-discovered Earth-like planet. It wouldn't be that far for them. In my opinion, though, there could be only two options: they outnumber us, and then defeat us, or they don't but have better weapons and technology, and they defeat us anyway. Or, they just come here for knowing us, which is probably the most probable event. It would be quite a waste of time to come here just to exterminate us, wouldn't it?

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        • B Brady Kelly

          Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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          Joan M
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          whooohooo! ps: sorry...

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          • C Christian Graus

            When I worked at the electrical engineering dept of MElbourne Uni, we got a letter from a retired army man, urging us to work out how space ships fly, as such an engine would be wonderful for the defence of our country.

            Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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            Joan M
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            super whooohooo! ps: sorry again...

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            • B Brady Kelly

              Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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              Rajesh R Subramanian
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              'Coz Will Smith is there anyway... ;)

              Here comes the men in black

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              • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                'Coz Will Smith is there anyway... ;)

                Here comes the men in black

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                peterchen
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                Unless he's busy shooting that romantic comedy sequel..


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                • P peterchen

                  Unless he's busy shooting that romantic comedy sequel..


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                  Rajesh R Subramanian
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                  We have Kyle for backup, ;) in case Will Smith is busy.

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                  • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                    We have Kyle for backup, ;) in case Will Smith is busy.

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                    peterchen
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                    You think he'll insult them to death?


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                    • P peterchen

                      You think he'll insult them to death?


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                      Pete OHanlon
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                      No - but it would be worth it to see them zap him.

                      Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                        You think he'll insult them to death?


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                        Dario Solera
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                        :laugh::laugh::laugh:

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                          No - but it would be worth it to see them zap him.

                          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                          peterchen
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                          Point!


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                          • B Brady Kelly

                            Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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                            Vikram A Punathambekar
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                            The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us - Bill Watterson.[^] :-> Now if I get branded a misanthrope and voted down for *this*, I can understand. Sort of. ;)

                            Cheers, Vıkram.


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                              Unless he's busy shooting that romantic comedy sequel..


                              We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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                              Vikram A Punathambekar
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                              Then we'll lend you our own "Captain" Vijaykanth[^]. :laugh:

                              Cheers, Vıkram.


                              "But nowadays, it means nothing. Features are never frozen, development keeps happening, bugs never get fixed, and documentation is something you might find on wikipedia." - Marc Clifton on betas.

                              Join the CP group at NationStates. Password: byalmightybob

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                              • B Brady Kelly

                                Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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                                Dan Neely
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                                I've bought the book and met two of the authors (Taylor and Boan) about year ago. It was an enjoyable read. :)

                                -- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?

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                                  Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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                                  JimmyRopes
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                                  Could build a wall at the southern border. :rolleyes:

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                                  • B Brady Kelly

                                    Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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                                    Chris Maunder
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                                    As long as we have Will Smith on our side we're good to go.

                                    cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      As long as we have Will Smith on our side we're good to go.

                                      cheers, Chris Maunder

                                      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                      Dan Neely
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                                      It's not Will Smith we need, it's his script writer that's the key. :rolleyes:

                                      -- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?

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                                      • B Brady Kelly

                                        Thoughts on defending the US if aliens invade: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C1697%2C2122568%2C00.asp[^]

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                                        Nathan Addy
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                                        Seems kind of silly. My opinion is that if any alien species that has the technology to get here can blow us away comically easily, so much so that the idea of any resistance is ludicrous. Here's one way it could go down. Suppose the aliens are 10 light years away and can travel .1 times the speed of light. They steam off from their planet towards earth, and fire a probe filled with germs towards the earth just a little faster than they are traveling. Probe hits earth a couple years before they land, and when they show up, all living things are dead (an RNA munching virus maybe). There would be no fight or anything. The only thing that is potentially unrealistic here is that our biochemistry would be similar enough to the martians that they can know what bugs to design. (But the design itself isn't a huge deal - humans should be able to make something that potent within the next 100 years I would think). It'll be several hundred years at least before we can go to the stars. So anyone who comes to attack is is going to be many hundreds of years at minimum (but say, uniformly distributed between 500 years and 100,000 years ahead of us). The Iraqi insurgency is only about 40 years technologically behind the US, and likely less. And reason they are a force is because we don't want to exterminate the country. If we were either in the business of truly and utterly destroying the country, or in making slaves of the population (although I think this scenario is unrealistic too), we would have no problems at all. In reality, I doubt we have much to worry about. I suspect plenty of intelligent life gets started in the universe, but I don't think any of them would be likely to survive more than a couple hundred years, at best, past their technological beginnings (for humankind, I'd set that date at about 1850-1900). Needless to say, I think we've got much bigger things to worry about than the possibility of an alien attacking.

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                                          Then we'll lend you our own "Captain" Vijaykanth[^]. :laugh:

                                          Cheers, Vıkram.


                                          "But nowadays, it means nothing. Features are never frozen, development keeps happening, bugs never get fixed, and documentation is something you might find on wikipedia." - Marc Clifton on betas.

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                                          Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                          OMFG LOL

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