Globalti
Legendary Member
I had an unpleasant dream this morning; we were in a big house waiting for some guests to arrive. I kept hearing odd rumbling sounds and then through a window I saw one of the girls from our labs at work staring at something on the ground in disgust. I went outside and realised that there was a trail of slime leading to something horrible in a corner, the air was full of white smoke through which I could see dozens of bright lights, some static and some whizzing around. Oddest of all there was a strange smell; it's the first time in my life I can remember a smell in a dream.
I was relieved to wake up but then I lay in bed wondering what would happen if aliens did invade Earth. I reckon that the little green men or huge spacecraft threatening the world is the least likely scenario, more likely it would be a kind of benign invasion by something for which we don't have any natural checks or balances, a species from another planet that discovered we had something it wanted - either a plant or a bacterium or a virus that found ideal breeding conditions in the environment or humans or animals or something that craved something like cellulose, which we have in abundance in wood, or metals or minerals or petroleum. Having seen how voraciously an Asian Longhorn Beetle grub ate the inside of our Chinese-made sofa I can imagine an invasion of insects that colonise Earth and scoff all the wood, which would be the end of us.
Whaddya think?
I was relieved to wake up but then I lay in bed wondering what would happen if aliens did invade Earth. I reckon that the little green men or huge spacecraft threatening the world is the least likely scenario, more likely it would be a kind of benign invasion by something for which we don't have any natural checks or balances, a species from another planet that discovered we had something it wanted - either a plant or a bacterium or a virus that found ideal breeding conditions in the environment or humans or animals or something that craved something like cellulose, which we have in abundance in wood, or metals or minerals or petroleum. Having seen how voraciously an Asian Longhorn Beetle grub ate the inside of our Chinese-made sofa I can imagine an invasion of insects that colonise Earth and scoff all the wood, which would be the end of us.
Whaddya think?