This topic has been covered in the excellent book Footfall

Earth is invaded by baby elephants. The baby Elephants win…

Then Archangel Michael casts the dragon from heaven.

I want production of Archangel-class assault ships begun NOW. Colony on the moon in one-shot, anyone?

Another story dealing with alien “invasion” was “Second Contact”… the interstellar equivalent of a tramp steamer visits Earth, and so humiliates and denigrates us that civilization collapses.
When a small collection of humans are rebuilding civilization 20 years later, when another ship comes back. Fearing that they’ve come to finish the job, the humans discover that this group is a group of sociologists, come to study us… because they can’t figure out how we managed to recover so quickly… which is very, very important to them, because THEIR civilization is collapsing. Good story. Libs suck in it, conservatives shine.

Then there’s No Truce with Kings, where civilization has collapsed and is rebuilding, a war is waging… and do-gooder aliens are trying to guide us into a peaceful future from behind the scenes. The liberals are (quite properly) the bad guys in this one. Being a confederate at heart, I like the conclusion.

“You wanted to reestablish the centralized state, didn’t you? Did you ever stop to think that maybe feudalism is what suits man? Some one place to call our own, and belong to and be a part of; a community with traditions and honor; a chance for the individual to make decisions that count; a bulwark for liberty against the central overlords who’ll always want more and more power; a thousand different ways to live. We’ve always built supercountries here on Earth, and we’ve always knocked them apart again. and maybe this time we’ll try something better. Why not a world of little states, too well-rooted to dissolve in a nation, too small to do much harm – slowly rising above petty jealousies and spite but keeping their identities – a thousand separate approaches to our problems. Maybe then we can solve a few of them…. for ourselves!”
…
“I’d rather be dead than domesticated.”

(Like I said, the dangerous space aliens will be the ones coming to do us good (much like the gov’t) not an invading army.)

Long Live the Climbing Fithp!

Taylor and Boan are hardly basement-dwelling paranoids obsessed with tinfoil hats and Area 51. Taylor holds advanced degrees in astronomy and physics, and is an associate at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He and Boan have done consulting work for the Defense Department and the U.S. space agency NASA…

I would just like to point out that you can have a prestigious job and a fancy degree while still being a basement-dwelling paranoiac obsessed with tinfoil hats and Area 51.

As an example, a few hours ago I was watching a show on the History Channel about conspiracy theories. They were talking to two or three different crazies that were saying that a group of around one hundred and twenty people control everything in the world (including the President, of course), and Daniel Pipes was alone in saying that they were all off their meds.

k2comp on April 25, 2007 at 9:41 PM

Yeah … but you have to get so close … They are kind of icky …

I will vote for my .308 and some high ground. If they get close, we can move to the .44M. I don’t want them getting up or staying intact.

Anyway, doubtful that would happen … The aliens/zombies only want to come do the jobs Americans won’t and run for office in Minnesota.

Personally, I say bring it on, now, while we still have Zaphod Beeblebrox in the White House.

Bob Owens on April 25, 2007 at 2:28 PM

Answer #1: Umm, no. Zaphod is soooo much closer to a description of Billy Jeff than GWB, it’s almost scary. Come on, gold lame’ shorts and picking up the first semi-interesting girl he sees…

Answer #2: Hey, he’s just this guy, see…

Answer #3: Don’t Panic!

**Just another hoopy frood who knows where his towel is**

And I’d be willing to bet their numbers are growing.

RedWinged Blackbird on April 25, 2007 at 3:45 PM

Covered this already….

I’m still waiting for CyberCipher to explain more about his hypothetical liberal-exterminating-creatures-from-space, before I decide who to root for.

Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 3:45 PM
It was a joke. Once again, I am largely misunderstood.
**sigh**

CyberCipher on April 25, 2007 at 4:10 PM

Uh, yes, Cyber. It was. A funny joke, which I was enjoying, which is why I decided to play along with the joke and add my own silliness. Or was enjoying, until I had to explain this.

Not that alien invasion is any laughing matter.*

* That line, also, was a joke. Not that I would actually laugh at the idea of liberal destroying aliens. **

** Yes I would. But I’d feel guilty later. ***

*** Note: these two were tongue-in-cheek comments.

Sigh.

Did you ever wonder what really did happen after the Death Star was destroyed?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8457584170590415935&q=robot+chicken+star+wars&hl=en

Oh well, if it makes ya’ feel better, I think the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” scenerio is far more likely. I can see planet earth being blasted to smithereens in order to clear the way for an inter-galactic freeway.
(Makes sense to me.)

CyberCipher on April 25, 2007 at 4:10 PM

Sean Hannity – Co-Host: “We continue our series tonight about eminent domain abuse across the universe.”

Ockham’s razor

abinitioadinfinitum on April 25, 2007 at 4:31 PM

My personal preference?…Hanlon’s Razor, viz.:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Nephilim of Genesis. Were they fallen angels, alien beings, or evil descendants of Cain or Seth?

abinitioadinfinitum on April 25, 2007 at 4:06 PM

Stop giving AllahPundit more ideas for threads with a religious theme, okay? Make him think them up on his own.
We don’t want to make it TOO easy for him.

I’m comfy with the .40 and the 9mm, so that’s what I’ll use. Ideally, once I get the m4/AR, the wife will be on backup with the pistols.

I’m still waiting for CyberCipher to explain more about his hypothetical liberal-exterminating-creatures-from-space, before I decide who to root for.

Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 3:45 PM

It was a joke. Once again, I am largely misunderstood.
**sigh**

Oh well, if it makes ya’ feel better, I think the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” scenerio is far more likely. I can see planet earth being blasted to smithereens in order to clear the way for an inter-galactic freeway.
(Makes sense to me.)