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IF ALIENS WANT US DEAD, WE WILL HAVE NO CHANCE. PREPARATION
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| IF ALIENS WANT US DEAD, WE WILL HAVE NO CHANCE. PREPARATION IS A WASTE OF TIME. George Dvorsky Board Member @ Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, ʻ07] How not to prepare for an alien invasion Sentient Developments, April 27, 2007 The idea of the United States defending the planet with guerrilla tactics reminds me of one of the most absurd films of all-time, Independence Day. In this movie, America experiences a supreme ass kicking until the alien invaders are thwarted by the Fresh Prince and his Apple Newton remember those. Okay, time fora st century reality check. And let me put it this way setting aside hand-waving dismissals of the Fermi Paradox (and that's a BIG caveat, if an advanced space-faring intelligence were to arrive at Earth with hostile intentions, their attack would be over before we could say, "ET. phone home" Specifically, I'm imagining a post-Singularity machine intelligence with access to artificial superintelligence, advanced robotics, genetically designed phages, and Drexlerian nanotechnology (if not femtotechnology). It would be like the Terminator and Matrix worlds on steroids. And that's if they want a planet to recover the use of antimatter weapons would make quick work of our planet should they want to destroy it. Alternately they could set the atmosphere aflame using grey-goo nano. Or how about robotic locust swarms, autonomous hunter-killers, and neurowarfare? Moreover, malevolent ETIs wouldn't even need to visit the Earth -- they could send their forces by proxy in the form of Von Neumann probes, or what has also been dubbed berserker probes. These are self-replicating spacecraft that could conceivably reproduce and travel across the Galaxy at an exponential rate. These devices could carry a number of nasty weapons with them for their attack. As an aside, the theoretical prospect of berserkers poses a conundrum that's related to the Fermi Paradox. Any malevolent or misguided advanced intelligence could spawn a fleet of these probes to sterilize the Galaxy in fairly short order. That said, we clearly don't live in a sterile Galaxy as witnessed by our ongoing existence. We appear to live in a Galaxy that's devoid of berserkers for non-obvious reasons. So, my advice on preparing for an alien invasion Simple don't bother -- you won't even know what hit you. 10NFL1-Nuclear Weapons Page 122 of 199 www.victorybriefs.com Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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