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Re:UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly h... by Mizza on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:43AM (#27061779)
That sounds nice, but is it true?

Weren't the Vikings, later Normen, far less advanced than the places they raided? They absorbed the technology, the land and culture and used it to conquer and form what is present-day England.

Maybe we'll beat the aliens with our savagery.

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Re:UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly h... by JPLeRouzic on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:20AM (#27072866)
There is a funny Sci-Fi book by Poul Anderson on this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade

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Re:UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly h... by staticman2 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#27064380)
A species capable of intersteller travel could bomb us and we'd have no ability to bomb their homeworld back.

There would be no way for humans to win.

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Re:UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly h... by williamstein on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:29AM (#27062183)
Or diseases.
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Re:UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly h... by rnd0 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:26AM (#27062869)
Why not? It worked in War Of The Worlds
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