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bulgron

bulgron

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OK, it's been a while since I weighed in on this forum. Here's a hypothetical for you all, just for grins.

Couldn't sleep last night so I was up staring at bad television. (Actually, all television is bad, but I digress). Anyway, AMC had Independence Day on. You probably know the movie, homocidal space aliens show up with 15 gigantic space ships and proceed to start blowing up cities all around the world.

So that's the scenario. The aliens are coming. They're out to blow up everything. You just know a couple of kick-ass Hollywood-esqe types are going to find a highly improbable way of beating the aliens just in the nick of time. Meanwhile, you've got to get along for some amount of time, call it a couple of weeks, trying to survive the aliens. After that, there's the years (decades?) of upheaval in which a lot of homeless people try to make do and the world rebuilds it's economy.

You have between 24 and 48 hours (you don't actually know how long) to prepare for the attack against your city. You live in an inner suburb far enough from downtown to hopefully not get blown up in the initial blast, but there's no guarantee that the blast will actually not reach you. Then there's all the people running for their lives. Refugees everywhere, all in a panic, all out to save themselves.

What do you do?

What do you want with you for gear and such?

How do you bug out, if indeed you decide to bug out?

BTW, if you want to make this a tiny bit more real, you could think of this in terms of England circa WWII, during the bombings, and looking at an imminent foreign invasion of your nation.

I could give you my thoughts on the subject, but I'm tired (insomnia, remember?) so I think I'll just leave this wide open and see what entertaining answers pop up in this thread.

Have fun!
 
Hey, just teach those invading aliens to like TV and beer. Then bash their gooshy, green brains out with a ball bat while they are sitting there drunk in front of the boob tube. :D
 
Dr. Mudd said:
Hey, just teach those invading aliens to like TV and beer. Then bash their gooshy, green brains out with a ball bat while they are sitting there drunk in front of the boob tube. :D
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I think the Simpsons did it... Sounds a lot like "Signs" too...
 
I'd pit them against the zombies......Actually I'd get the heck out of dodge. they'll probably be focusing on the metropolitan areas first so if I head out to the sticks it might by me some time.....time enough for will smith and jeff goldlum to get 'em...I'd be here a long time if I listed what I would take but given the nature of the threas here are the highlights 1) marlin leveraction rifle in .357 magnum 1) ruger gp-100 chambered for the same (4 inch barrell) this gives me defensive ability and ability to hunt small and large game and I'd have interchangeability of ammo. I'd take a leatherman wave a Fallkniven f-1 and an ontario 12 inch machete, several large tarps pots and pans, clothing, as much potable water as I could carry a water filter and at least 2 pots. some non perishable food items, a small fishin pole w/ tackle a radio so I might keep abreast of the sit. my psk, and my asst of fire starting equipment an dof course a well stocked fak. I know a spot I souted out which is bascially a small cave about half way up a mnt it's just large enough to comfortably hous me and my family.(w/ some mods) highe enough to be easily defendable beneath you and the area above is to steep an angle for a land based attack At the top of the mnt is a lake w. clear water and decent fishing, it's currently about 45-50 mile drive from my house... that'd be my immediate thoughts on the subject, but I'm sure I left alot out.
 
I recently saw (on TV) a scientist talking about this subject. He said if aliens wanted to destroy us they would just sit out there and redirect asteroids to slam into the earth, "throw rocks at us".

My thoughts? If they wanted to take our infrastructure intact they would infect us with a bug that would wipe us all out. We wouldn't even know it was them. If they wanted something in between they would get us all talking about politics, religion, and ice hockey then just sit back and watch us destroy each other.

If you look at the history of the 20th Century and the numbers of people killed by aggression you could easily make the case that they have already started it. Mac
 
Pict there was a episode of the classic twilight zone that was very similar to what you describe. If we're going to seriously consider this, you'd have to assume that a dead planet is of no use to an alien race, so what we should do is keep polluting and deforesting the world to make it as unattractive as possible....Take that you green blooded bast$rds!
 
with so many people armed that i know alone here in PA, the UFO's never make it past the state line for getting shot down.:cool: :thumbup: :D
 
on second thought, they fly over PA and leave. i believe this state is the biggest importer of trash (garbage) in the country for land fill.
 
question do we start fighting the Aliens before or after they blow up Washington D.C.?:confused:
i always get confused about that part of the movie.:confused: :D :D
 
bulgron
you know a thread like this can get me to post to myself all day.:D

before the web mountain men would have to walk around the mountains talking to themselves.:eek:
now with modern technology they just post.:cool: :D
 
The scenario where someone sits at the top of our gravity well and throws rocks is pretty well known in Science Fiction circles. Frankly, it ought to be well-known in US Department of Defense circles too, which is why I'm always surprised that the DOD isn't pushing for a bigger presence in space. OTOH, I don't want to take this to the political arena, so I'll leave it at that.

The biological warfare from space thing is also well known. In fact, I believe that was the underlying premise behind the X-Files.

And, no, you can't just sit on your back porch and shoot down the alien invaders. Their space ships have shields, remember? If a F-16 can't knock the bugs out of the air, your .30-.30 isn't going to do much better.

Also, people who think all our pollution is going to save us have forgotten that the bugs are coming to strip our planet of all resources. Presumably they know how to recycle those BigGulp containers and Big Mac wrappers into something diabolically useful. So that won't save you either.

Personally, the "cave halfway up the side of a mountain" suggestion is really the best suggestion if you only have short notice. If you want to plan ahead for the diabolically evil invading space aliens, then you need to buy that hunting shack on 40 acres right now, and start quietly building and stocking your bomb shelter. You can't keep the rampaging aliens out (if they find you) but you can hopefully outlast all the rampaging refugees.

But then there's the invasion aftermath, once the Hollywood-esqe duo has found an improbable way to kill all the space aliens. The economy is now flat-lined, as all of our most important financial institutions have been blown to itsy bitsy bits, and virtually all of the economic viability derived from our cities is now GONE. Billions of people are without food, water and shelter. Even game is getting scarce as the millions of people roaming the countryside hunt and kill everything in sight. Even worse, food production is probably still on-going, but I don't know how smoothly food distribution is going to go. Consequently, the government is rather forcefully inviting everyone to take advantage of one of the conveniently-located FEMA concentra -- um, I mean, "shelters."

Given the current crowd, I assume you won't be becoming a FEMA dependent anytime soon. Therefore, I think the important question at this point in the game is what knife or knives do you want for butchering dead, fried alien bug corpses, and why? :D :D
 
555 said:
question do we start fighting the Aliens before or after they blow up Washington D.C.?:confused:
i always get confused about that part of the movie.:confused: :D :D
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Unfortunately, they evacuated almost all of the politicians from DC before the city got blown up, so no joy there.

If only there was a alien death ray that takes out only lawyers, politicians and CEOs.... ;)
 
555 said:
bulgron
you know a thread like this can get me to post to myself all day.:D

before the web mountain men would have to walk around the mountains talking to themselves.:eek:
now with modern technology they just post.:cool: :D
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Bulgron leans over the forum with a slight smile on his face. Carefully, he lowers the end of a brightly colored piece of yarn into the midst of it.

He jerks the yarn, making it dance.

Across the way, 555 pivots, stares at the dancing yarn, on high alert. Eye's wide, he crouches, his tail twitches, the then he pounces!

But Bulgron yanks the yarn out of the way just in time, and so the frantic game continues ....

;)
 
bulgron said:
Given the current crowd, I assume you won't be becoming a FEMA dependent anytime soon. Therefore, I think the important question at this point in the game is what knife or knives do you want for butchering dead, fried alien bug corpses, and why? :D :D
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Haaaaahaaa.... thats great!

To be honest, I'd go with my WWII Kuhk and my GB SFA. If I have dead, fried, rotting Alien corpses laying around my living room, stinking up the place, and having to step over them on my way the the beer frige....... I'll have no patients for exact slicing. Blunt force, and cleaving will do the job. ;)
 
bulgron said:
Bulgron leans over the forum with a slight smile on his face. Carefully, he lowers the end of a brightly colored piece of yarn into the midst of it.

He jerks the yarn, making it dance.

Across the way, 555 pivots, stares at the dancing yarn, on high alert. Eye's wide, he crouches, his tail twitches, the then he pounces!

But Bulgron yanks the yarn out of the way just in time, and so the frantic game continues ....

;)
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not that string trick again. wait, i see it. i can get it this time. no, missed again.:grumpy:
i always fall for this trick. wait, i see it..................;) :D
 
i got it we will release Groundhogs through the Stargate that is in the Colorado mountain. and dial the gate to their planet where they build their star ships at. then the groundhogs will chew the wires on the ships as i have trained them to do on my truck.
 
bulgron said:
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\And, no, you can't just sit on your back porch and shoot down the alien invaders. Their space ships have shields, remember? If a F-16 can't knock the bugs out of the air, your .30-.30 isn't going to do much better.

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Personally, the "cave halfway up the side of a mountain" suggestion is really the best suggestion if you only have short notice. If you want to plan ahead for the diabolically evil invading space aliens, then you need to buy that hunting shack on 40 acres right now, and start quietly building and stocking your bomb shelter. You can't keep the rampaging aliens out (if they find you) but you can hopefully outlast all the rampaging refugees.
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on the first part. now i know this is science fiction.
now what am i going to do with all these UFOs i've already shot down and what a mess. i guess i can sell them for scrap. what is the going rate for Zota metal now days?

and on the second part. where do you think i'm posting from, in the bunker of course. didn't you guys get the wake up call when you saw tremors?:D :D
 
oh that wasn't a UFO firing at me it was just lighting.:eek:
i thought the Aliens blow up the satellite that i send my posts through.:D
 
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