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Onkel Neal
06-05-12, 10:56 AM
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/31/battleship_earth
:D

As summer blockbuster season kicks into high gear, big-budget action movies like The Avengers, Battleship, and Prometheus remind us that there's one thing that unites Americans: Our shared fear of an alien attack. They also remind us that when the invading space fleet arrives, humanity is not going to surrender without a fight to our intergalactic invaders. Instead, we will band together to fight off their incredibly advanced weaponry with our ... well, with what, exactly? Are we really ready to battle our would-be alien overlords?

Gargamel
06-05-12, 11:16 AM
Well according to our own movies, either squirt guns, a virus from a MacBook (wait, what?), or a weapon system even we consider obsolete.

Ducimus
06-05-12, 11:23 AM
Well according to our own movies, either squirt guns, a virus from a MacBook (wait, what?), or a weapon system even we consider obsolete.

Signs, Independence day, and Battleship.

Haven't seen battleship yet. Not sure I want to.

GoldenRivet
06-05-12, 11:29 AM
skip battleship


it is an absolute tragedy of film making :nope:

TLAM Strike
06-05-12, 12:51 PM
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/31/battleship_earth

Nice try but those would be completely useless against an alien attack. Any force attacking from space could simply pound us in to submission by redirecting asteroids at us.

To fight aliens we need to meet them on equal terms; that is in space.
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/67/starfleetforces1.jpg

AVGWarhawk
06-05-12, 12:54 PM
There does seem to be a fixation on alien attack. We are our own worst enemy. I did like the Avengers. Sadly, I watched the 4 previous movies leading up to Avengers after I watched Avengers. It all made sense then. :doh: :DL

Penguin
06-05-12, 12:58 PM
Well according to our own movies, either squirt guns, a virus from a MacBook (wait, what?), or a weapon system even we consider obsolete.

Not to forget gruesome and hideous weapons like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2B1noiNGY) (warning: click on your own risk - especially if you're a Martian)

Sailor Steve
06-05-12, 03:43 PM
There does seem to be a fixation on alien attack. We are our own worst enemy. I did like the Avengers. Sadly, I watched the 4 previous movies leading up to Avengers after I watched Avengers. It all made sense then. :doh: :DL
I constantly warn people not to do that. Sometimes they even listen.

But did you sit through the entire credits of each movie to catch the cool teaser scenes at the end? Did you sit through the entire credits for the cool scene at the end of Avengers? If not you lose! :O:

AVGWarhawk
06-05-12, 03:48 PM
Yes I did stay for the closing credits and teaser. :DL All of the movies were very entertaining. Iron Man 2 was my least favorite. However, the Iron Man character played by Downy Jr is my favorite. :up:

Betonov
06-05-12, 03:53 PM
Any force attacking from space could simply pound us in to submission by redirecting asteroids at us.


The moon nazis used that to quite an effect :O:

Jimbuna
06-05-12, 03:56 PM
All will be lost in an alien attack...unless you have the correct leader.

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nicholson-mars-attacks.jpg

vienna
06-05-12, 05:42 PM
Hmm, do you think...?...Maybe...?...Nah...


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_OrxZB0WKNI/T3WKi_UNnTI/AAAAAAAAEW0/rBC4G6P4MDY/s1600/imagesto-serve-man-titles-small.jpg



Hey, we told the Native-Americans "We come in peace" and that turned out all right, didn't it?...

...

mapuc
06-05-12, 06:47 PM
Offcourse we are to be occupied by the aliens and it's gonna happen on the 21th of december this year(2012)
(heard and saw Fox Mulder tell us that)

Markus

TLAM Strike
06-05-12, 08:03 PM
Hmm, do you think...?...Maybe...?...Nah...


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_OrxZB0WKNI/T3WKi_UNnTI/AAAAAAAAEW0/rBC4G6P4MDY/s1600/imagesto-serve-man-titles-small.jpg



Hey, we told the Native-Americans "We come in peace" and that turned out all right, didn't it?...

...
More likely:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2594/littlegreenmen261.jpg
My name is Quark, Chief Financial Officer of the Ferengi Alliance. And I've got a business proposition for you.

Oberon
06-05-12, 08:57 PM
We'll be ready!

http://friday87central.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hammers.gif

vienna
06-06-12, 01:10 PM
More likely:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2594/littlegreenmen261.jpg
My name is Quark, Chief Financial Officer of the Ferengi Alliance. And I've got a business proposition for you.

OMG!! The invasion of the Wall Street Bankers!! Run for your lives!!... :o


...

Platapus
06-06-12, 06:05 PM
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Hey, we told the Native-Americans "We come in peace" and that turned out all right, didn't it?...

...

It was the native American's fault for being on our land first. :yep:

Seth8530
06-06-12, 06:48 PM
Much more likely

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/4800000/dalek-sec-the-creatures-of-doctor-who-4839849-1024-768.jpg