Friday, May 9, 2014

How can we fight back during an alien invasion? (part 5)


Give them what they want. Maybe meeting the aliens' needs isn't a bad trade when facing complete annihilation. Do they want their friend freed from the probing experiments at Area 51? Do they just want to siphon away some of our oceans? Or maybe they are here to prevent us from activating the Hadron Collider (too late) for fear that it will destroy the fabric of the universe? Diplomacy can be an effective tool, but usually only when you hold most of the cards. If aliens could wipe us out easily, it is very unlikely that they will even bother to turn on their translators to understand our pleas. But if we have something they want yet can't easily take, or we know something they don't, we have the beginnings of a possible agreement—an agreement that could, at the very least, ensure that we continue to exist as a species.

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