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[-] suction@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Speculative. Why do you assume Aliens with the technology to travel this far would see nuclear weapons as a threat to them?

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There are presumably no physics that provide protection from extremely powerful explosions (of any kind).

Just because you can imagine some magical force field that these hypothetical aliens might possess doesn't mean that such a thing can actually exist.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We don’t have to imagine force fields or any other MCU-tech, what if you had a way to disable all those weapons before they could even be launched at you? Or even in flight?

EMP exist now, and humans can shoot missiles out of the air - it’s perfectly imaginable that Aliens could think about our explosion delivery systems as being slow and vulnerable as fuck.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

The upside to that is that humans could and probably would just sneak nukes onboard their ships and set them off on the inside if they did try to invade, a tactic for which they'd have no real defense.

Any civilization that had those things, even rudimentary Trinity Test ones, are on a whole different playing field than any that came before by virtue of the nature of nukes, so it is reasonable that aliens would investigate nuclear powers first.

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