Re: Re: clumsy interceptors, ultraslow computers, and ineffective...

Gee, taking he General Westmoreland approach I.E. "bombing us back to the
stone age" is not a good approach from the aliens veiwpoint. They need
transplants. Healthy transplants. They need them now. Not in a few thousand years
when the radiation levels have dropped to safe levels after this little nuke
fest.

The same pretty much goes for mining the space lanes of UFO approaches to
Earth. What say the aliens decide to push a really large meteor throuh that
mess of thermonuclear mines and scatter them to who knows. For that matter why
don't they just take a really large one and drop it on Moonbase. A large
meteor hit makes a thermonuclear bomb seem like a damp firecracker in comparison
and no radiation. Heck they could just push a few toward Earth and that would
put us back in the stone age and no radiation to worry about.

James K.


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Several good points in this discussion. Some of our friends think that all
the aliens want to do is destroy us. Wrong. They want to harvest our best
organs they must be fresh and healthy. Radiation tends to cook flesh , see
microwave ovens. scott


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The military has the technology to destory astrorids. Since when? What are
they going to do hit one with a nuke(which seems to be everyones answer to any
threat)?
That would just break one up into smaller pieces and slightly deflect its
course. And deflecting one even slightly isn't going to help all that much.

The writers Isaac Asimov and Martin Caidin both wrote on what would happen if
we had a meteor to hit Earth. Caidin was a bit more recent so I will use his
data. If a meteor of only say a quarter of a mile in size were to hit Earth
here is what would happen. Say it hits a major city. Caidin used Atlanta as
his example. The impact would create a crater 20 miles across which would
totally wipe out the city. The surrounding area for another 50 mile radius
would be destoryed by the shockwave and the firestorm created by the impact.
This would if the center of at impact was Atlanta would have moved the
destruction 60 miles in all directions But we still are not safe because that tiny
little quarter of a mile hunk of rock hitting would have created a earthquake that
would destroy everying in a radius of 180 miles from the point of impact.
That is just about where I am sitting so that has always stuck with me of just
how much damage a meteor would do if it struck.

Using a nuke to stop one? A small one less than a quarter of a mile maybe.
One in the quarter of a mile size would just break up and you get smaller
versions of the above happening only now the meteor pieces are radioactive. And
if you get a really big one like the one like a mile or more like the one that
suppose made the dinosaurs extinct the most powerful nukes would be no help at
all.

James K.


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[hidden email] wrote:
> Several good points in this discussion. Some of our friends think that all
> the aliens want to do is destroy us. Wrong.

See DESTRUCTION.

[hidden email] wrote:
> But we still are not safe because that tiny little quarter of a
> mile hunk of rock hitting would have created a earthquake
> that would destroy everying in a radius of 180 miles from the
> point of impact. That is just about where I am sitting so that has
> always stuck with me of just how much damage a meteor would
> do if it struck.

Not to mention the potentially global environmental damage.