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I think such an alien adversary would have been more than capable of wiping out humans long ago if they already had the capabilities to direct asteroids toward
by meowface 5y ago
I think such an alien adversary would have been more than capable of wiping out humans long ago if they already had the capabilities to direct asteroids toward us. (And also travel the very vast distance to get to us.)
I could maybe believe it if they were throwing them for fun / to study how we react. Which might go in line with the theories that many "UFOlogists" espouse: that sightings are sporadic and rare because aliens are basically pranksters trolling us all. (For the record, I find this pretty contrived, and I believe the far more likely explanation is that there haven't ever been any visitations.)
- q1w2 5y agoIf you assume that berserkers are difficult to produce and disperse throughout the galaxy, then you might conclude that they have limited capabilities. Perhaps after detecting intelligent life and reporting it, perhaps it attached itself to the largest convenient asteroid/comet, and altered it's orbit just so to stunt human development just enough to allow for a more complete extermination ship to be dispatched. Like a galactic immune system - suicide berserkers designed to signal the human infection, and then suicide themselves to slow the disease evolution. The galaxy is many billions of years old. I would not rule out the development of such a system.
- meowface 5y agoThe fact that the galaxy is billions of years old is one part of what would lead me to think that such an immune system would destroy the entire planet, or at least kill all life on it, with the very first projectile/attack.
- apetrov 5y agosounds like a scenario of Starship troopers rather than a food for thought.