what stupid bullshit. what alienc race capable of traveling across the stars cant handle a backward civilization firing nukes. hello, the technology needed to get here would make them apear like gods to us. it would be like trying to defeat a helicopter gunship with a sharp wooden stick. thermo-nuklear-bombs are a joke compared to the dangers of space they would have needed to face to get here. reality more like: haha yeah nice toy. keep pollution youself radioactivly. were whiping you out now.
@kyle1172 (Part 2)than out nowhere the development of the laser came about in the 50s(though Albert Einstein did propose such quantum phenomena in 1927).
@kyle1172 The problem here Kyle,we think,as do futurist and movie directors,in advances which are advanced in relative to human technology at the moment being.Example:In the 30s-40s people thought it would be cool/futuristic to have a remote control(clicker)with a large stick coming out of it to change channels.They never thought of lasers being able to do such work.Impossibility is actually great,as we know about the concept just not fully understood it,because lasers weren't thought of in 20s
Electromagnetic Shielding is very possible,not just to long ago scientist managed to align and therefore control the very peak of the atom(free space/energy) in order to act as a protective layer.The concept is graspable,at least in the microscopic level,and works but as I said only in the very minuscule forms.
@lrcdert2010 at a microscopic level it is, as a lot of things are that could never be possible on a large scale, especially a shield such as that, and everyone agrees the energy from a nuke or any large explosion would go through it, also how would a ship travel wit shields all around it, it would need a space for some sort of thruster or over propulsion system anyway, meaning it would be vulnerable unless on the ground.
@lrcdert2010 this is why the tripods shields on war of the worlds was such a stupid concept, as how could it walk without stepping on it's own shield, unless it pulsed the shield out at a certain point it wouldn't work. Even then whats stopping somehow sticking a nice big charge to a leg or the body of it and blowing it up from within the shields area, nothing. Realistically the best form of armour would be some sort of alloy of materials which can take insane impacts with many detachable layers
@kyle1172 about the tripods and their shields...there's a lot of assumptions being made here. for one, that the shields are impermeable to slow moving solid objects, the ones in Dune had that weakness with "The slow blade penetrates the shield" kind of stuff. it'd also be quite reasonable to assume the shields have counter-effects available which weren't seen but allowed the tripod's limbs to reach through the shield...or just to make holes in the shield at whim to allow shooting out.
@lrcdert2010 which is what we use now on tanks, with a super a hard core made from a composite of a lot of materials with then detachable reactive armour over that.
aliens wouldn't want or need to attack us. they will cleverly get us to do their bidding for them. like the british did in india or us is doing in mid east now. divide and rule. it is happening as we speak.
It's the advances that makes weapons from past time obsolete.Armor for example would never be penetrated by bow and arrows.An alien force would most likely have Electromagnetic shields responding the kinetic energy caused by the immense speeds and space debries colliding.
@lrcdert2010 How do you know that electromagnetic shields can even be created and that you can push asteroids around? The two are most likely scientifically impossible :L Even with a shield we could launch a single nuke with a high enough yield to destroy a planet, doesn't matter how good their so shield is nothing can withstand such energy.
Also you point about the assault rifle make sense, but how do you know the alien race has even been at war or had to develop weapons? they might be peaceful
@kyle1172 pushing asteroids is like pushing anything else. you just need a big engine and some decent mountings. we could probably do it with current technology if we had the interest and money backing it.
As to nukes busting planets...not gonna happen. worst you'll EVER do with a nuke is blast a crater visible from orbit...earth is a 4.54 billion year old, 5 Quadrillion tonne bal of iron. its just about impossible to do more than dent it. shatter it and it flows together like a T1000
@Rohan2300 By destroy the planet I mean destroy the entire surface and all life, which we could do, not blast it into it pieces. Also pushing a asteroid is a pretty stupid form of attack, as we could see the asteroid and simply launch a nice big missile at whatever is propelling it making it inert. Also what causes it to flow back together? something to do with magnetic force?
@kyle1172 lol, just to say, once its moving at a fair clip, breaking an asteroid up or even attempts to redirect it will likely be futile. the film Armageddon was a load of crap on that one.
Blow it to pieces, you still have a couple kilometer's worth of rocks and dust pounding into the atmosphere, you might not get the immediate wide-spread devastation but the localised stuff and greenhouse effects would still be there.
As for the flowing together, simple gravity does it at that scale
[Cont] Armageddon did get one thing right about stopping meteor strikes,...a blast on the surface of the asteroid will probably do next to nothing. because no nukes we have could apply enough force to cause more than the most minor of deflections to an asteroid moving at the kinds of speeds an engine could bring it up to over that distance (remember that breaking the engine doesn't affect the momentum the rock already has)
@Rohan2300 Some asteroids are bigger than planets, the aliens would need to construct something which would have to be constantly in the air to stop it braking under it's own weight anyways it would need tons of fuel it would probably take decades to build possibly longer to get here and we would see it, and if we blew up the engines when it was far away it would probably go bk to the gravity of a closer planet's orbit or just orbit ours anyway the whole concept of thrusting an asteroid is dumb.
@kyle1172 nobody said it had to be an asteroid of arbitrary size.....
if its a ten mile across Ice Asteroid, you have all the fuel you need. things do NOT brake in space. you have to apply a counter force. you get an asteroid moving towards earth, sure, another large body might alter its path, but if you account for that...nothing short of an large amount of force to deflect or stop it will work. if you can do interstellar travel, you can shove a rock around a solar system easily.
@Rohan2300 still, as soon as we saw it, possibly planets and planets away, we would take out the engines then they couldn't stop it going into orbit round the nearest planet simple as, case closed, lemon nose.
first off, we can't -reach- it until it gets within the lunar orbit, such is the current nature of our space program. secondly, its not in the nature of things to form stable orbits. gravity at range is an insanely weak force, weakest of the four fundamental forces. anything moving significantly will be largely unaffected until it no longer matters. if that rock is coming our way. nothing and noone can stop it from hitting with our current tech.
@Rohan2300 How do you now that we couldn't see it or nuke it at such range? Firstly we can see planets even further than pluto, so I think spotting a asteroid ten miles wide, with a massive thermal signature of engines attached to it in the insanely cold matter of space it would be seen far away enough to shoot the engines out with ease in my opinion, I am no expert but neither are you, nukes travel insanely fast and we can see things giving off heat in space VERY far away.
first, yes, we can spot an asteroid a LONG way off. but we cannot (repeat) cannot reach it. and even if we did, shooting the engines will have NO EFFECT beyond preventing it from accellerating further. IT WILL STILL MOVE, and it will still strike the earth if it was aimed correctly. Nukes do not travel fast enough, the distances are WAY further than you might imagine. our best system can reach mars in six months....
@Rohan2300 You could argue easily that with current technology while the asteroid is within our atmosphere we could simply fire a missile with a point or drill on the front designed to pierce it, get inside and blow in into tiny little pieces, or we could launch thousands of nukes like this inside it, all the little fragments would burn up in our atmosphere into tiny ashes.
@kyle1172 Even assuming we can hit the asteroid before it gets inside our lunar orbit...we haven't got the firepower to do more than fragment it. and ten kilometers of asteroid is STILL TEN KILOMETERS of asteroid even when you've blown it to dust. its STILL going to cause a nuclear winter. maybe not as bad a winter as a hard impact would, but still enough to destroy our environment for decades to come.
Burning up in the atmosphere doesn't mean that its no longer a problem.
@Rohan2300 Also, do you have any idea how fast an asteroid strike would be? there wouldn't be more than a split-second spent actually in the atmosphere before impact....we're talking mere minutes from passing inside the lunar orbit to impact...
@Rohan2300 We currently use explosives that pierce things and then explode, it wouldn't surprise me if the government has already developed some designed for asteroids as it is a concern.
@kyle1172 there's a difference between armor piercing..and drilling through several kilometers of rock....
Armor piercing relies on the impact, it doesn't involve drilling or cutting in any way beyond blunt trauma...the only way explosives are going to help break an asteroid apart (short of frankly ludicrous amounts of nukes) is if we physically land on the thing, drill into it, and plant the nukes...same plan as Armageddon..except we'd have all of half an hour or so to do it...tops
also, just to be totally clear about this...Ten miles across is considered a mid-scale planet-killer. drop one of those on earth and its goodbye humanity, hello nuclear winter.
Pushing around an asteroid is very very viable. all you really need is a good engine and a bit of time to get that much mass up to speed. yes we'd see it coming, we'd probably see it starting out. but there is NOTHING we can do against it. we can't get to it in time to do anything about it.
also, just to be totally clear about this...Ten miles across is considered a mid-scale planet-killer. drop one of those on earth and its goodbye humanity, hello nuclear winter.
Pushing around an asteroid is very very viable. all you really need is a good engine and a bit of time to get that much mass up to speed. we'd see it coming, we'd probably see it starting out. but there is NOTHING we can do against it. we can't get to it in time to do anything about it.
@kyle1172 but yeah..realistically, not much gonna stop a high yield nuke. much less get back up for more like in the above video
as to shields. Look up plasma windows if you want to know about them. they'll hold back atmospheric pressure against hard vacuum.
won't stop anything dense though, high energy particles pass through them like they're not there. bullets or even fingers will practically ignore them too.
Technology is in use, just not scaled up large enough
@Rohan2300 With our current technology we could destroy more or less anything, Plasma and pulsar weapons etc might not even be as effective as missiles, projectiles and explosives anyway. I think rail guns are meant to be the next step but I'm not sure if they have the range as I saw the test of one and it seemed pretty lame going only a few meters. As for any sort of shield other than that made from actual solid material I don't think that anything else can stop explosives.
@kyle1172 Let me put it this way:you take a civilian and an armored vehicle with just a M4A1.Lets say they gave him an ammo box of about 20,000 bullets.The time is around the 1200s,the largest army wouldn't be able to stop this civilian,an armored vehicle,and a single machine gun.You see that just 812 year difference an average civilian with the armor and a single weapon can decimate the largest of the armies at the time.
@kyle1172 Yeah,but you're totally wrong when it comes to an invasion scenario.A species with such capability should have been through steps in which weaponry helped them develop such advanced propulsion.Also,a species more than likely would have studied the opponents ability before an invasion.
@lrcdert2010 As I said, you assume they would, they may have mainly studied air and space travel extensively rather than weapons and tactics, and considering they were so advanced in space travel that would mean they had been united rather than on the planet fighting each other for any considerable amount of time like we have for thousands of years and still do. It seems unlikely any race is as advanced in war and weapons as we are, I believe in UFO's and have seen a lot of video's ----
@lrcdert2010 ---- but obviously aliens don't want to attack us as they would probably get smashed, every time fighter jets are scrambled to go check out a UFO it wizzes off into space, if they were so advanced they would blast the fighter jets? Anyways you also assume weapons can get more advanced, our nuclear missiles are extremely advanced. Also with things like rail guns, plasma weapons, lasers and pulse weapons becoming reality and the wide range of warheads, ammunition and defense systems..
@kyle1172 hm, I would argue that attacking a planet is an insane proposition, you're going to have to bring all your own munitions, your vehicles, your soldiers, EVERYTHING. with likely little opportunity to resupply unless you have either the capacity to expand once on the planet, or you have a supplytrain stretching back to your homeworld. anyone attacking a planet will necessarily be fighting an opponent with essentially limitless material resources.
[cont]. it'd be the equivelant to a boatload of modern soldiers attempting to invade and conquer the entire of medieval europe....just too big a job unless you can dramatically boost your forces by some means.
As far as planet-conquering goes...its pretty easy though, anyone who can travel interstellar distances should be able to push large rocks around. get an asteroid from say...saturn or jupiter. hurl it at the earth. while its traveling, order the unconditional surrender
[cont] if they surrender, nudge the rock into a high orbit, if they don't. let it hit. give them the same offer again with a reminder that no means more rocks....they'll either surrender or face extinction.
that's about the only way I can see a remotely contemporary alien race succeeding in conquering a planet.
@Rohan2300 An advance enough alien species can conquer planets easily if they have the tech. Heck they could infect the entire planet with nanites which just kills or paralyze anyone who doesn't do what they say, but then why would such an advance species even want to colonize inhabited worlds..
@ddnguyen278 yeah, you can infect the planet with nanites I guess, but that'd qualify as "building your forces on site" in my book :P eliminating the material and numerical superiority of your foe.
As to why conquer an inhabited world...a) xenophobia, b) you want the living space and don't want to live in space for whatever reason (psychological, biological, religion..whatever) c) religious reasons ala The Covenant from Halo, take your pick. the reasons go on....
@kyle1172 Yeah,you're right in the war effort and production part.The world spends about 2.1% or about $2.7 trillion out of a total GDP of $115 trillion.The production and joint cooperation would be unimaginable in its scale,easily dwarfing WW2 and making it seem like a playground fight.Nations like Germany and Japan would be lifted from such sanctions and have the ability to create an offensive force in order to repel such a force.
Being realistic I think they would have been standing by with more ready to nuke that shit again, there are that many fighter jets and that many nukes, and that many drones that they could have nuked each individual ship one hundred times in a row, if not more. This movie was epicly shit, the entire military presence was a jeep, a couple of snipers, one helicopter a few drones and one stealth bomber, it's about as realistic as my grandma running the one hundred meters, and she is eighty.
@trenchnuts Not as nice as your mothers, it is so bright and pink against her soft pale skin that it makes my cock throb and ache every time I see it dripping before me.
I'm actually quite surprised the X-47 along the other Drones made it past the line of sight and into territory.Humans will never be capable of fighting an alien force that comes to Earth.We humans have a small military:78,000 tanks;23,000 Fighter Jets;1,500 Naval ships.A combined world force would be decimated and dominated over in about an hour max.We surely overestimate humans and yet we whine about movies not able to blow up the alien forces.
@lrcdert2010 Aren't you assuming that the aliens will be amazing at combat? We are very advanced and have been fighting battles against each other for thousands of years. Granted the aliens would need advanced aircraft to get here, but that doesn't mean they would have superior combat equipment or ability or tactics, or numbers or shit. Just better space travel. Also the worlds combined military force would be huge in an invasion like this as reserves would join and loads would volunteer
@lrcdert2010 Aren't you assuming that the aliens will be amazing at combat? We are very advanced and have been fighting battles against each other for thousands of years. Granted the aliens would need advanced aircraft to get here, but that doesn't mean they would have superior combat equipment or ability or tactics, or numbers or shit. Just better space travel. Also the worlds combined military force would be huge in an invasion like this as reserves would join and loads would volunteer
@lrcdert2010 Considering the combined force of the entire military of the world in personnel is about 110 million when you include para-military and reserves then how many people would volunteer in a world invasion? probably would go up to about two to three billion. Then everyone else would support the effort, production would be huge, the numbers you listed would go up insanely fast, and tanks are a small part of the equation anyway, nuclear missiles and helicopters are more relevant.
@lrcdert2010 you are forgetting about the 25,000+ nukes worldwide and i highly doubt any race of aliens will be able to build a shield that will just block them like world of the worlds or Independence day.
I found this scene strangely moving. When things are desperate, people can be so brave (like Flight 93). Heroism is really an expression of love for everybody else.
I like this movie, 1. There not Just U.A.V.S They are reapers. 2. The CUAV can actually do that its the x-47b or (The little stealth bomber) 3. The thing i disagree with when the nuke went of.... it would blind the shit out of them. :)
@LastXdeth Most nukes these days are actually of a lower yield than the two deployed in World War 2, this is why they are referred to as 'tactical nukes'. I believe that the general idea is to reduce the collateral damage inflicted.
@CynicalVision flash blinding without* a telescope would leave you in extreme pain - focused like that it should have melted / fused parts of his eye so no. Bad movie , no Facts and just one really really good cgi scene haha
Duke Nukem did a better fight scene with an alien mothership over Las Vegas! And what makes it even more better than this one, THE ALIENS DIED AND DIDN'T FUCKING GET BACK UP!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone else think the Brothers Strauss also ripped off Duke Nukem's Octabrains for their aliens?
This movie sucked! The whole movie was basically about the characters hiding inside an apartment from brain stealing aliens! And the only "sky battle" scene was with the predator drones! So idk why it was called skyline probly because the aliens mostly hovered around!
guys their X- 47 Bs the stealthes aircraft will ever take 2 the skies... do the simliarty its looked the little bro of B2 steath bomber. n 2 tell u about worst ending. good lord people the lights gave him a power 2 able 2 control his body making it super humen n just put the brain n an ailen body gets byond the hopes but mor chances of part 2 speaking of part the aliens wont succeed just A huge chunk.
Just so who ever posted this knows, that is an X47-A Pegasus or an X47-B. Officially they are still in the experimental stage until 2013, but as the recent engagement of SEAL team 6 to kill Bin Laden has showed, we have technology in play that is either classified or said to be still experimental(namely the Stealth Black Hawk). So, it is possible that we have a large amount of these things in service.
@99681655 Yes, that is a nuke. The mistake people make when you hear "nuke" is that you picture a massive explosion, while that is not always the case. Nukes come in different payloads, and make a big blast with a small missile. Also the fact there power went out shows an EMP. The only thing non nuclear that could come close to that explosion is the MOAB, but they are rather large bombs and requires an MC-130 to carry it.
i think these aliens were inspired by the way old school zombies. why? well look at what they did. they came all the way to earth. took everyone. just to suck their brains out of our bodies and use it for theirs. both the aliens and the old school zombies just wanted BRRRRRAAAAAIIINNNNSSS!!.
@Ariana321 If Aliens were to traverse such massive distances at great speeds,their has to be some armor type which can withstand debris at near light speed travel.The most realistic depiction of an Alien Force for me was War of the Worlds(2005).In that scenario,Nukes were ineffective let alone conventional weaponry.
what stupid bullshit. what alienc race capable of traveling across the stars cant handle a backward civilization firing nukes. hello, the technology needed to get here would make them apear like gods to us. it would be like trying to defeat a helicopter gunship with a sharp wooden stick. thermo-nuklear-bombs are a joke compared to the dangers of space they would have needed to face to get here. reality more like: haha yeah nice toy. keep pollution youself radioactivly. were whiping you out now.
hansbo11 19 hours ago
@kyle1172 (Part 2)than out nowhere the development of the laser came about in the 50s(though Albert Einstein did propose such quantum phenomena in 1927).
lrcdert2010 1 day ago
The special effects on the movie were great but i hated the movie. There was no plot, no backstory and almost everybody dies.
nerflover425 1 day ago
@kyle1172 The problem here Kyle,we think,as do futurist and movie directors,in advances which are advanced in relative to human technology at the moment being.Example:In the 30s-40s people thought it would be cool/futuristic to have a remote control(clicker)with a large stick coming out of it to change channels.They never thought of lasers being able to do such work.Impossibility is actually great,as we know about the concept just not fully understood it,because lasers weren't thought of in 20s
lrcdert2010 1 day ago
Electromagnetic Shielding is very possible,not just to long ago scientist managed to align and therefore control the very peak of the atom(free space/energy) in order to act as a protective layer.The concept is graspable,at least in the microscopic level,and works but as I said only in the very minuscule forms.
lrcdert2010 2 days ago
@lrcdert2010 at a microscopic level it is, as a lot of things are that could never be possible on a large scale, especially a shield such as that, and everyone agrees the energy from a nuke or any large explosion would go through it, also how would a ship travel wit shields all around it, it would need a space for some sort of thruster or over propulsion system anyway, meaning it would be vulnerable unless on the ground.
kyle1172 1 day ago
@lrcdert2010 this is why the tripods shields on war of the worlds was such a stupid concept, as how could it walk without stepping on it's own shield, unless it pulsed the shield out at a certain point it wouldn't work. Even then whats stopping somehow sticking a nice big charge to a leg or the body of it and blowing it up from within the shields area, nothing. Realistically the best form of armour would be some sort of alloy of materials which can take insane impacts with many detachable layers
kyle1172 1 day ago
@kyle1172 about the tripods and their shields...there's a lot of assumptions being made here. for one, that the shields are impermeable to slow moving solid objects, the ones in Dune had that weakness with "The slow blade penetrates the shield" kind of stuff. it'd also be quite reasonable to assume the shields have counter-effects available which weren't seen but allowed the tripod's limbs to reach through the shield...or just to make holes in the shield at whim to allow shooting out.
Rohan2300 1 day ago
@lrcdert2010 which is what we use now on tanks, with a super a hard core made from a composite of a lot of materials with then detachable reactive armour over that.
kyle1172 1 day ago
Man if they could survive a nuke ima just suicide
MattSniper117 2 days ago
man the pilot of the usaf drone must have played ace combat 24 hours a day
sherry180441 2 days ago
aliens wouldn't want or need to attack us. they will cleverly get us to do their bidding for them. like the british did in india or us is doing in mid east now. divide and rule. it is happening as we speak.
oneraceonedestiny 2 days ago
That looked more like global hawks and X-47Bs
droidca9 2 days ago
If this happened why dont we all get in a building and putsentry guns outside
nazizombiecrazyman 3 days ago
there should've been a much larger shockwave than that. the apartment building those people were in would've been leveled.
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It's the advances that makes weapons from past time obsolete.Armor for example would never be penetrated by bow and arrows.An alien force would most likely have Electromagnetic shields responding the kinetic energy caused by the immense speeds and space debries colliding.
lrcdert2010 3 days ago
@lrcdert2010 How do you know that electromagnetic shields can even be created and that you can push asteroids around? The two are most likely scientifically impossible :L Even with a shield we could launch a single nuke with a high enough yield to destroy a planet, doesn't matter how good their so shield is nothing can withstand such energy.
Also you point about the assault rifle make sense, but how do you know the alien race has even been at war or had to develop weapons? they might be peaceful
kyle1172 3 days ago
@kyle1172 pushing asteroids is like pushing anything else. you just need a big engine and some decent mountings. we could probably do it with current technology if we had the interest and money backing it.
As to nukes busting planets...not gonna happen. worst you'll EVER do with a nuke is blast a crater visible from orbit...earth is a 4.54 billion year old, 5 Quadrillion tonne bal of iron. its just about impossible to do more than dent it. shatter it and it flows together like a T1000
Rohan2300 2 days ago
@Rohan2300 By destroy the planet I mean destroy the entire surface and all life, which we could do, not blast it into it pieces. Also pushing a asteroid is a pretty stupid form of attack, as we could see the asteroid and simply launch a nice big missile at whatever is propelling it making it inert. Also what causes it to flow back together? something to do with magnetic force?
kyle1172 1 day ago
@kyle1172 lol, just to say, once its moving at a fair clip, breaking an asteroid up or even attempts to redirect it will likely be futile. the film Armageddon was a load of crap on that one.
Blow it to pieces, you still have a couple kilometer's worth of rocks and dust pounding into the atmosphere, you might not get the immediate wide-spread devastation but the localised stuff and greenhouse effects would still be there.
As for the flowing together, simple gravity does it at that scale
Rohan2300 1 day ago
[Cont] Armageddon did get one thing right about stopping meteor strikes,...a blast on the surface of the asteroid will probably do next to nothing. because no nukes we have could apply enough force to cause more than the most minor of deflections to an asteroid moving at the kinds of speeds an engine could bring it up to over that distance (remember that breaking the engine doesn't affect the momentum the rock already has)
Rohan2300 1 day ago
@Rohan2300 Some asteroids are bigger than planets, the aliens would need to construct something which would have to be constantly in the air to stop it braking under it's own weight anyways it would need tons of fuel it would probably take decades to build possibly longer to get here and we would see it, and if we blew up the engines when it was far away it would probably go bk to the gravity of a closer planet's orbit or just orbit ours anyway the whole concept of thrusting an asteroid is dumb.
kyle1172 1 day ago
@kyle1172 nobody said it had to be an asteroid of arbitrary size.....
if its a ten mile across Ice Asteroid, you have all the fuel you need. things do NOT brake in space. you have to apply a counter force. you get an asteroid moving towards earth, sure, another large body might alter its path, but if you account for that...nothing short of an large amount of force to deflect or stop it will work. if you can do interstellar travel, you can shove a rock around a solar system easily.
Rohan2300 1 day ago
@Rohan2300 still, as soon as we saw it, possibly planets and planets away, we would take out the engines then they couldn't stop it going into orbit round the nearest planet simple as, case closed, lemon nose.
kyle1172 1 day ago
@kyle1172 no, we wouldn't.
first off, we can't -reach- it until it gets within the lunar orbit, such is the current nature of our space program. secondly, its not in the nature of things to form stable orbits. gravity at range is an insanely weak force, weakest of the four fundamental forces. anything moving significantly will be largely unaffected until it no longer matters. if that rock is coming our way. nothing and noone can stop it from hitting with our current tech.
Rohan2300 17 hours ago
@Rohan2300 How do you now that we couldn't see it or nuke it at such range? Firstly we can see planets even further than pluto, so I think spotting a asteroid ten miles wide, with a massive thermal signature of engines attached to it in the insanely cold matter of space it would be seen far away enough to shoot the engines out with ease in my opinion, I am no expert but neither are you, nukes travel insanely fast and we can see things giving off heat in space VERY far away.
kyle1172 14 hours ago
Let me address those points one by one...
first, yes, we can spot an asteroid a LONG way off. but we cannot (repeat) cannot reach it. and even if we did, shooting the engines will have NO EFFECT beyond preventing it from accellerating further. IT WILL STILL MOVE, and it will still strike the earth if it was aimed correctly. Nukes do not travel fast enough, the distances are WAY further than you might imagine. our best system can reach mars in six months....
Rohan2300 10 hours ago
@Rohan2300 You could argue easily that with current technology while the asteroid is within our atmosphere we could simply fire a missile with a point or drill on the front designed to pierce it, get inside and blow in into tiny little pieces, or we could launch thousands of nukes like this inside it, all the little fragments would burn up in our atmosphere into tiny ashes.
kyle1172 14 hours ago
@kyle1172 Even assuming we can hit the asteroid before it gets inside our lunar orbit...we haven't got the firepower to do more than fragment it. and ten kilometers of asteroid is STILL TEN KILOMETERS of asteroid even when you've blown it to dust. its STILL going to cause a nuclear winter. maybe not as bad a winter as a hard impact would, but still enough to destroy our environment for decades to come.
Burning up in the atmosphere doesn't mean that its no longer a problem.
Rohan2300 10 hours ago
@Rohan2300 Also, do you have any idea how fast an asteroid strike would be? there wouldn't be more than a split-second spent actually in the atmosphere before impact....we're talking mere minutes from passing inside the lunar orbit to impact...
Rohan2300 10 hours ago
@Rohan2300 We currently use explosives that pierce things and then explode, it wouldn't surprise me if the government has already developed some designed for asteroids as it is a concern.
kyle1172 14 hours ago
@kyle1172 there's a difference between armor piercing..and drilling through several kilometers of rock....
Armor piercing relies on the impact, it doesn't involve drilling or cutting in any way beyond blunt trauma...the only way explosives are going to help break an asteroid apart (short of frankly ludicrous amounts of nukes) is if we physically land on the thing, drill into it, and plant the nukes...same plan as Armageddon..except we'd have all of half an hour or so to do it...tops
Rohan2300 10 hours ago
also, just to be totally clear about this...Ten miles across is considered a mid-scale planet-killer. drop one of those on earth and its goodbye humanity, hello nuclear winter.
Pushing around an asteroid is very very viable. all you really need is a good engine and a bit of time to get that much mass up to speed. yes we'd see it coming, we'd probably see it starting out. but there is NOTHING we can do against it. we can't get to it in time to do anything about it.
Rohan2300 1 day ago
also, just to be totally clear about this...Ten miles across is considered a mid-scale planet-killer. drop one of those on earth and its goodbye humanity, hello nuclear winter.
Pushing around an asteroid is very very viable. all you really need is a good engine and a bit of time to get that much mass up to speed. we'd see it coming, we'd probably see it starting out. but there is NOTHING we can do against it. we can't get to it in time to do anything about it.
Rohan2300 1 day ago
@kyle1172 but yeah..realistically, not much gonna stop a high yield nuke. much less get back up for more like in the above video
as to shields. Look up plasma windows if you want to know about them. they'll hold back atmospheric pressure against hard vacuum.
won't stop anything dense though, high energy particles pass through them like they're not there. bullets or even fingers will practically ignore them too.
Technology is in use, just not scaled up large enough
Rohan2300 2 days ago
@Rohan2300 With our current technology we could destroy more or less anything, Plasma and pulsar weapons etc might not even be as effective as missiles, projectiles and explosives anyway. I think rail guns are meant to be the next step but I'm not sure if they have the range as I saw the test of one and it seemed pretty lame going only a few meters. As for any sort of shield other than that made from actual solid material I don't think that anything else can stop explosives.
kyle1172 1 day ago
@kyle1172 Let me put it this way:you take a civilian and an armored vehicle with just a M4A1.Lets say they gave him an ammo box of about 20,000 bullets.The time is around the 1200s,the largest army wouldn't be able to stop this civilian,an armored vehicle,and a single machine gun.You see that just 812 year difference an average civilian with the armor and a single weapon can decimate the largest of the armies at the time.
lrcdert2010 3 days ago
@kyle1172 Yeah,but you're totally wrong when it comes to an invasion scenario.A species with such capability should have been through steps in which weaponry helped them develop such advanced propulsion.Also,a species more than likely would have studied the opponents ability before an invasion.
lrcdert2010 5 days ago
@lrcdert2010 As I said, you assume they would, they may have mainly studied air and space travel extensively rather than weapons and tactics, and considering they were so advanced in space travel that would mean they had been united rather than on the planet fighting each other for any considerable amount of time like we have for thousands of years and still do. It seems unlikely any race is as advanced in war and weapons as we are, I believe in UFO's and have seen a lot of video's ----
kyle1172 3 days ago
@lrcdert2010 ---- but obviously aliens don't want to attack us as they would probably get smashed, every time fighter jets are scrambled to go check out a UFO it wizzes off into space, if they were so advanced they would blast the fighter jets? Anyways you also assume weapons can get more advanced, our nuclear missiles are extremely advanced. Also with things like rail guns, plasma weapons, lasers and pulse weapons becoming reality and the wide range of warheads, ammunition and defense systems..
kyle1172 3 days ago
@kyle1172 hm, I would argue that attacking a planet is an insane proposition, you're going to have to bring all your own munitions, your vehicles, your soldiers, EVERYTHING. with likely little opportunity to resupply unless you have either the capacity to expand once on the planet, or you have a supplytrain stretching back to your homeworld. anyone attacking a planet will necessarily be fighting an opponent with essentially limitless material resources.
Rohan2300 3 days ago
[cont]. it'd be the equivelant to a boatload of modern soldiers attempting to invade and conquer the entire of medieval europe....just too big a job unless you can dramatically boost your forces by some means.
As far as planet-conquering goes...its pretty easy though, anyone who can travel interstellar distances should be able to push large rocks around. get an asteroid from say...saturn or jupiter. hurl it at the earth. while its traveling, order the unconditional surrender
Rohan2300 3 days ago
[cont] if they surrender, nudge the rock into a high orbit, if they don't. let it hit. give them the same offer again with a reminder that no means more rocks....they'll either surrender or face extinction.
that's about the only way I can see a remotely contemporary alien race succeeding in conquering a planet.
Rohan2300 3 days ago
@Rohan2300 An advance enough alien species can conquer planets easily if they have the tech. Heck they could infect the entire planet with nanites which just kills or paralyze anyone who doesn't do what they say, but then why would such an advance species even want to colonize inhabited worlds..
ddnguyen278 2 days ago
@ddnguyen278 yeah, you can infect the planet with nanites I guess, but that'd qualify as "building your forces on site" in my book :P eliminating the material and numerical superiority of your foe.
As to why conquer an inhabited world...a) xenophobia, b) you want the living space and don't want to live in space for whatever reason (psychological, biological, religion..whatever) c) religious reasons ala The Covenant from Halo, take your pick. the reasons go on....
Rohan2300 2 days ago
@kyle1172 Yeah,you're right in the war effort and production part.The world spends about 2.1% or about $2.7 trillion out of a total GDP of $115 trillion.The production and joint cooperation would be unimaginable in its scale,easily dwarfing WW2 and making it seem like a playground fight.Nations like Germany and Japan would be lifted from such sanctions and have the ability to create an offensive force in order to repel such a force.
lrcdert2010 5 days ago
1:47 (yet lets look at a nuclear explosion and go blind) TURN OFF THE TV GET DOWN!
Xilstealth 5 days ago
Being realistic I think they would have been standing by with more ready to nuke that shit again, there are that many fighter jets and that many nukes, and that many drones that they could have nuked each individual ship one hundred times in a row, if not more. This movie was epicly shit, the entire military presence was a jeep, a couple of snipers, one helicopter a few drones and one stealth bomber, it's about as realistic as my grandma running the one hundred meters, and she is eighty.
kyle1172 6 days ago
@kyle1172 your grandma has a nice vagina
trenchnuts 3 days ago
@trenchnuts Not as nice as your mothers, it is so bright and pink against her soft pale skin that it makes my cock throb and ache every time I see it dripping before me.
kyle1172 3 days ago
@kyle1172 my mom is a nigger so her skin isnt pail
trenchnuts 3 days ago
@trenchnuts Yep it is :D
kyle1172 3 days ago
I'm actually quite surprised the X-47 along the other Drones made it past the line of sight and into territory.Humans will never be capable of fighting an alien force that comes to Earth.We humans have a small military:78,000 tanks;23,000 Fighter Jets;1,500 Naval ships.A combined world force would be decimated and dominated over in about an hour max.We surely overestimate humans and yet we whine about movies not able to blow up the alien forces.
lrcdert2010 6 days ago
@lrcdert2010 Aren't you assuming that the aliens will be amazing at combat? We are very advanced and have been fighting battles against each other for thousands of years. Granted the aliens would need advanced aircraft to get here, but that doesn't mean they would have superior combat equipment or ability or tactics, or numbers or shit. Just better space travel. Also the worlds combined military force would be huge in an invasion like this as reserves would join and loads would volunteer
kyle1172 6 days ago
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@lrcdert2010 Aren't you assuming that the aliens will be amazing at combat? We are very advanced and have been fighting battles against each other for thousands of years. Granted the aliens would need advanced aircraft to get here, but that doesn't mean they would have superior combat equipment or ability or tactics, or numbers or shit. Just better space travel. Also the worlds combined military force would be huge in an invasion like this as reserves would join and loads would volunteer
kyle1172 6 days ago
@lrcdert2010 Considering the combined force of the entire military of the world in personnel is about 110 million when you include para-military and reserves then how many people would volunteer in a world invasion? probably would go up to about two to three billion. Then everyone else would support the effort, production would be huge, the numbers you listed would go up insanely fast, and tanks are a small part of the equation anyway, nuclear missiles and helicopters are more relevant.
kyle1172 6 days ago
@lrcdert2010 you are forgetting about the 25,000+ nukes worldwide and i highly doubt any race of aliens will be able to build a shield that will just block them like world of the worlds or Independence day.
johnmrrs 4 days ago
1:35
In the words of Will Smith: "PEACE!"
JessFromMead 6 days ago
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I got uber excited when i saw this scene in the movie. The nuke jet was dodging and weaving alien ships like a boss.
MrP1CO 6 days ago
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MrP1CO 6 days ago
if this was ace combat, the players all got a achievment at 1:19
robynumchucks 6 days ago
I'm mean sucks balls
TANCARDINAL70 1 week ago
Ok everyone shut up about nuke Atomic bombs and tactical nukes the movie still sicks
TANCARDINAL70 1 week ago
IMO this whole movie was a flop
AG31594IsBack 1 week ago
This scene will be much more epic if they used Fighter jets.
tobyYaphetS 1 week ago
@tobyYaphetS But the movie already explained why they couldn't.
Gibbons3457 1 week ago
They forgot to double tap it.
johnmrrs 1 week ago
That pussy ass alien ship ain't got nothin' on the Independence Day ships.
ChoolyBuzkill 1 week ago
@ChoolyBuzkill All they need is a norton anti virus to be stronger than those Independence Day ships.
johnmrrs 1 week ago
@johnmrrs Sir, I laughed so hard that you almost killed me.
Doum92 1 week ago
awww that little stealth bomber drone. :(
kingjohn219 1 week ago
DO THE FUCKING BARREL ROLL!!!!!!!!
lucaskronenbergen1 1 week ago
Drones fucking owns make moar!!!
bambarby 1 week ago
The only good scene.
bambarby 1 week ago
This scene should really be called: "The last charge of the USAF".
MrSpongg 1 week ago 4
I found this scene strangely moving. When things are desperate, people can be so brave (like Flight 93). Heroism is really an expression of love for everybody else.
MrSpongg 1 week ago
Imagine how badass the guy who controls the stealth bomber is xD
ShadowHunter226 1 week ago
@LastXdeth they are trying to kill the alien and not the HUMAN
jkoooooo12 1 week ago
The little UCAV that could.
k1ingsteve 1 week ago
Best acting for that predator.
darkninjamandelta 1 week ago
Good drone work in annihilating alien fighters!
arzente 1 week ago
the bomber drone pilot is a newtype.
odeiocriaruser 1 week ago
i hate how this movie just kept going and going and that ending!
ragdoll433 1 week ago
I like this movie, 1. There not Just U.A.V.S They are reapers. 2. The CUAV can actually do that its the x-47b or (The little stealth bomber) 3. The thing i disagree with when the nuke went of.... it would blind the shit out of them. :)
Ilovegameing 1 week ago
did you see the hiroshima nuke explosion the fire sestroy everything in 9km but that house just near 1km how asshole is that
superphantom1998 1 week ago
The United states president controlled that drone.
tobyYaphetS 1 week ago
ah it feels like i watched this scene yesterday... in fact it was just .87 seconds ago
TheZeldaplayer99 1 week ago
Looking at a Nuke explosion with a telescope. Why the hell din't him catch on fire?
todydejaca 1 week ago
That's the wekest nuke I ever seen. Should've blown all of LA and southern California off the map.
LastXdeth 1 week ago 15
@LastXdeth It was an W80 5-150kt .. Ya I would have fired a 25MT * and probably 2 or 3 just to be sure.
sirwence 1 week ago
@LastXdeth Most nukes these days are actually of a lower yield than the two deployed in World War 2, this is why they are referred to as 'tactical nukes'. I believe that the general idea is to reduce the collateral damage inflicted.
phoenixheart79 1 week ago
@LastXdeth They do make low yield nukes, ya know. Still, the fact that the building they are in didn't shake is kinda stupid.
bigred2989 1 week ago
@LastXdeth Or at the very least knocked down a apartment building a few blocks away lol its pretty funny
johnmrrs 1 week ago
@LastXdeth Tactical nuke. Suitcase size.
Beergut222 1 week ago
@LastXdeth You grossly over estimate the power of a tactical nuke detonated in atmosphere.
Gibbons3457 1 week ago
@LastXdeth Ever heard of a tactical nuke?
Zer0nite 1 week ago
@LastXdeth Agreed.
SapphireCrusader1988 1 week ago
@LastXdeth It was probably one of those w80 warheads with the 5kt yeild
FR3DisGAY 4 days ago
@LastXdeth Thats an unmanned stealth bomber. They arent capable of loading a large scale warhead.
biggydx 3 days ago
@LastXdeth Its called a tactical nuke
wargarkaz 2 days ago
@bluefev3r Yes we do
Ilovegameing 1 week ago
Do we have technology that good , from the drones standpoint?
bluefev3r 1 week ago
@bluefev3r
Yup, the drone with the nuclear weapon is based off the X-47B design.
CynicalVision 1 week ago
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roykuo4 1 week ago
Wow what a shitty movie.
combatsambonyc 1 week ago
The only good part of the movie..
ImmaVegit0 2 weeks ago
Silly Humans!!!
sapher2020 2 weeks ago
its BILL from Starfox 64 and he needs help!!!!
AZ09astrophysicist 2 weeks ago
I like to think that they called in the best Ace Combat players in the world for this mission...
RTDice11 2 weeks ago 30
@RTDice11 Pixy, Akula, yellow 13, Cipher, Bishop, Blaze, Razgriz, grabacr....
TheAribom 4 days ago
This scene reminds me of Starwars.
JustSimplyLego 2 weeks ago
That little drone was the best actor in the entire movie!
jcgoodwrench03 2 weeks ago
i want to see full movie
cr4shish 2 weeks ago
How would you describe a failure?
tayyabno10 2 weeks ago
Ok, what is more scarry, brainsucking Aliens from a movie or a world where we have robot armys like that drohnes ?
jimsuerd2x2 2 weeks ago
@TheWeid0Group Are you kidding me? Syfy's movies have the cheapest, shittiest CGI. Skyline has fantastic CGI.
RobotronicRaptor 2 weeks ago
@RobotronicRaptor yeh but as for details they suck. Where the fuck was the nukes shockwave? and why the fuck didn't survivors gets blasted away?
BenjaminKuruga 2 weeks ago
why does the guy that was watching tv look fake? lol like a Video game character... xD
jr4chargers 2 weeks ago
Jesus titty fucking christ! How agile do they think a B2 is? It can't roll that fast! Fuck me sideways.
theheadshot45 2 weeks ago
@theheadshot45 It's not a B2 It's some kind of drone.
AdhocHoopla 2 weeks ago
@AdhocHoopla Read the title. *AND STEALTH BOMBERS* -.-
theheadshot45 2 weeks ago
@theheadshot45 The title is wrong, it's not a B2, look at some pictures and you'll see.
AdhocHoopla 2 weeks ago
@theheadshot45 Just looked it up, it's the X-47 B stealth drone.
AdhocHoopla 2 weeks ago
@AdhocHoopla Oh I see, thanks.
theheadshot45 2 weeks ago
Hy but low
TommyTollandVids 2 weeks ago
this looks like something sy-fy would make. did they?
TheWeid0Group 3 weeks ago
26 person are alien
battle123654789 3 weeks ago
Looking at a nuclear explosion (esp through a telescope) would cause blindness. Somehow many movie-makers miss this fact.
a50745 3 weeks ago
@a50745
Maybe he was blinded in one eye, the movie never really stated either way.
CynicalVision 3 weeks ago
@CynicalVision flash blinding without* a telescope would leave you in extreme pain - focused like that it should have melted / fused parts of his eye so no. Bad movie , no Facts and just one really really good cgi scene haha
sirwence 1 week ago
Whoever was remote flying that last RQ-170 had some serious skill
a50745 3 weeks ago
such an intense scene
KGlovesNR 3 weeks ago
WHERE IS THE MUSHROOM!!!! IT WAS THE ONLY PART WORTH OF THAT MOVIE, AND THERE IS NO MUSHROOM???!!!! WTF!!!!!
Olaoo99 3 weeks ago
i dont know why you all hate it but i liked it i thought it was a fairly good movie
Bukyru 3 weeks ago
Duke Nukem did a better fight scene with an alien mothership over Las Vegas! And what makes it even more better than this one, THE ALIENS DIED AND DIDN'T FUCKING GET BACK UP!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone else think the Brothers Strauss also ripped off Duke Nukem's Octabrains for their aliens?
masterDevis 3 weeks ago
michael bay should have done this movie would have made parts like this ten times better
MFran248 3 weeks ago
Come on, we have like how many nukes!?!? tens of thousands! Hit them again!!!
GforceBK 3 weeks ago
They should have ended the movie with the ship exploding and humanity pushing them back. THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A LOT BETTER!!!!
vanbismark 3 weeks ago
This movie sucked! The whole movie was basically about the characters hiding inside an apartment from brain stealing aliens! And the only "sky battle" scene was with the predator drones! So idk why it was called skyline probly because the aliens mostly hovered around!
t1me2die1 3 weeks ago
@wattosacrim The escorts are Predators, the bombers are RQ-170s, they are both UAVs
chriscos123 3 weeks ago
@chriscos123 ahh yeah true that, i see what you mean. after a second look they certainly are not B2s, but they do have a similar shape, from afar.
wattosacrim 3 weeks ago
@wattosacrim Defiantly, they both use similar stealth technology.
chriscos123 3 weeks ago
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chriscos123 3 weeks ago
this movie fuckin sucked!!!!! thumbs up if war of the worlds battle scene broght you here.
maverick14012 3 weeks ago
guys their X- 47 Bs the stealthes aircraft will ever take 2 the skies... do the simliarty its looked the little bro of B2 steath bomber. n 2 tell u about worst ending. good lord people the lights gave him a power 2 able 2 control his body making it super humen n just put the brain n an ailen body gets byond the hopes but mor chances of part 2 speaking of part the aliens wont succeed just A huge chunk.
bushie4242 3 weeks ago
B2s arent that manoeuvrable???????
wattosacrim 3 weeks ago
@wattosacrim I doubt anything is "manoeuvrable"
johnmrrs 3 weeks ago
Great film but the worlds worst ending
AdamBaileyloltv12 3 weeks ago
Just so who ever posted this knows, that is an X47-A Pegasus or an X47-B. Officially they are still in the experimental stage until 2013, but as the recent engagement of SEAL team 6 to kill Bin Laden has showed, we have technology in play that is either classified or said to be still experimental(namely the Stealth Black Hawk). So, it is possible that we have a large amount of these things in service.
porpus99 3 weeks ago
that is not nuke
99681655 3 weeks ago
@99681655 Yes, that is a nuke. The mistake people make when you hear "nuke" is that you picture a massive explosion, while that is not always the case. Nukes come in different payloads, and make a big blast with a small missile. Also the fact there power went out shows an EMP. The only thing non nuclear that could come close to that explosion is the MOAB, but they are rather large bombs and requires an MC-130 to carry it.
porpus99 3 weeks ago
@porpus99 tnx for information
99681655 3 weeks ago
1:17 Milo from 24, anyone?
MyNameIsRayChong 4 weeks ago
i think these aliens were inspired by the way old school zombies. why? well look at what they did. they came all the way to earth. took everyone. just to suck their brains out of our bodies and use it for theirs. both the aliens and the old school zombies just wanted BRRRRRAAAAAIIINNNNSSS!!.
clikcerticker 4 weeks ago
Looks like someone got a 9 killstreak!!!
Firefightersrule999 4 weeks ago
This movie was a failure. The nuke didn't even effect them. Or the survivors.
Seanwashere08 4 weeks ago 9
@Seanwashere08 They were trying to make it look like the missile went through an opening that contained the blast.
lledec 2 weeks ago
@Seanwashere08 at least the mothership is destroyed
RanaRandom 2 weeks ago
that was one epic pilot man after watching this ima go watch the movie lol
Bukyru 4 weeks ago
@Bukyru this scene was the movie..
sirwence 4 weeks ago
@Bukyru Don't waste your time bro, that was the only watchable 3 4 minutes of the entire film, trust me, its not very good.
justfunnythings 3 weeks ago
@justfunnythings i dont know why you dont like it but i did
Bukyru 3 weeks ago
Nukes never fail
mickeysigmon 4 weeks ago
@Ariana321 If Aliens were to traverse such massive distances at great speeds,their has to be some armor type which can withstand debris at near light speed travel.The most realistic depiction of an Alien Force for me was War of the Worlds(2005).In that scenario,Nukes were ineffective let alone conventional weaponry.
lrcdert2010 4 weeks ago
DO THE FUCKING BARREL ROLL!
lucaskronenbergen1 4 weeks ago 25
@lucaskronenbergen1 its a drone dumb ass
2010californa 2 weeks ago
He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-heads up!
E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-nemy UAV spotted!
lucaskronenbergen1 4 weeks ago
Now this is the single great scene in the movie. I cared WAY more for that single drone than for any of the other drones in the cast.
Astrologon 1 month ago
cool that's the guy from Expendables
sidney3808 1 month ago
@sidney3808 and Dexter