by Sandi Crain

Created on: October 22, 2009   Last Updated: October 23, 2009

Hollywood is very fond of creating aliens that come to Earth in order to conquer it and exploit its resources. It can be a highly entertaining view of extraterrestrials and feeds on the natural fears of humans, but it is just not logical.

Assuming that humans are not the most intelligent life form in the universe, then it makes sense that extraterrestrial beings have been watching this planet since the creation of nuclear energy. Having a nuclear capability gives man the power to destroy the entire planet. If this happens, then the hole created where Earth once lived would destabilize the orbits of every other planet in the solar system. The meteors and comets created by the explosion could possibly slam into any other star or planet in its path. All this destabilization would then spread out into the galaxy and could, in time, completely change the entire universe. This kind of power in the hands of the war-mongering human is very dangerous so, of course, extraterrestrials are watching humans closely.

If extraterrestrials had any desire to overtake humanity to control the planet ,they would have done so before the society reached this stage of technological advancement. Some argue that extraterrestrials already did this and are identified in the mythologies as gods and goddesses. These were, by definition, beings of a higher intelligence and introduced humans to things such as fire, iron, and alcohol. All the things needed to create conflict among earth's inhabitants. The proponents of this theory suggest that those gods and goddesses used the masses as slaves and used those humans they could trust as the managers of those slaves. Although the alien species has long ago left the planet there are still humans who think that the exploitation of the planet, as well as the beings living upon her, is the right way to behave.

Whether or not any of that is true, it does show that early humans would have been much easier to exploit than those of today. An aggressive invasion by an extraterrestrial species would cause an insurgency like the world has never seen. Forget car bombs. The military of every nation on Earth would unite and use lasers, sonars, and even nuclear weapons to ensure that another species did not gain control. The resulting destruction would not be in the invader's best interest. And, no matter how powerful the invader might be, there would always be humans who would never accept slavery and revolution would always be ready to break out.

It's much

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