haha funny article....I guess if they aliens were prepared it would simply be a pogrom of the humans and rather boring to watch!


yeah, War of the Worlds oversight is huge (in modern terms). When was the story written? My history of science knowledge is bad, but iirc, the germ theory of disease was not accepted until the late 19th/early 20th century.

Exactly. There wouldn't be much drama or tension if the aliens are uber-powerful and simply come in and wipe out all of humanity in short order!

You mean just like the Vogons did it, when they built that interstellar highway?

Well yes, but then again the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was not a typical alien invasion story but the focus is on what happens in the aftermath.

1898. It was a story on the cutting edge of science at the time. Granted in retrospect you wouldn't believe a more advanced group would overlook something like that, but a story needs a logical resolution and what but disease could defeat an alien invasion at the end of the 19th century?



The Jedi Master

Two other possibilities from movies:

1)They come here simply seeking out other intelligent life. Find the possibility in some places and leave big black monoliths to observe and test.

2)Gold. In Cowboys and Aliens, that's what they wanted, plain and simple. They travel from planet to planet extracting is; it's not just valuable on Earth.

Please aliens, came and take Snooki and as an added bonus, you can have the rest of the Jersey Shores case.

Basically every mineral of value here came from up there. They'd be pretty foolish to ignore all the asteroids, moons and unoccupied planets to come fight a battle here. About the only way I could see that being possible is if you want to say that they're just steamrolling their way through the galaxy harvesting everything in their path.

I would imagine if you can travel between the stars it would be a LOT easier and faster to get it from asteroids anyway. I mean, how much area do you have to search? Looking over an entire planet for some particular metal or something that may be buried far down...



The Jedi Master

Well, at least the motive for the aliens in the Stargate film seemed logical. Finding a suitable corporeal body to replace your dying one and also abducting humans to provide you with slave labor on another planet so they can mine your valuable Stargate mineral for you.