Pakistan rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal

[Siege]

This doesn't bode well. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30648446/

Why can't you cut and paste the damn article?
I wanna read it here.

[Siege]

How hard would it be to reprogram ICBMs to target Alien warships in low earth orbit?

Why do you think the Alien warships are going to be in low orbit?
They are going to hold at their maximum effective range, and nuke our cities one by one until we submit to their rule.
If we don't, then they'll just glass our planet and wait a couple centuries to come back and start mining our resources.

[Neil]

Why do you think the Alien warships are going to be in low orbit?
They are going to hold at their maximum effective range, and nuke our cities one by one until we submit to their rule.
If we don't, then they'll just glass our planet and wait a couple centuries to come back and start mining our resources.

What makes you think that aliens would have warships?

[garbon]

Why would aliens use something as inefficient as nuclear weapons?

[Siege]

Why do you think the Alien warships are going to be in low orbit?
They are going to hold at their maximum effective range, and nuke our cities one by one until we submit to their rule.
If we don't, then they'll just glass our planet and wait a couple centuries to come back and start mining our resources.

What makes you think that aliens would have warships?

It was the term Timmay used.
I don't know jack about Aliens.
Maybe a simple exploration ship is so far advanced that have the capability to nuke cities with their single energy weapon.
Technology is a bitch.
I wonder what a modern destroyer could have done against the entire Armada Invencible.

[Siege]

Why would aliens use something as inefficient as nuclear weapons?

Energy weapons with an output big enough can have the same effect of nukes.

[garbon]

Energy weapons with an output big enough can have the same effect of nukes.

That's nice, so are you going to answer my question?

[Siege]

Energy weapons with an output big enough can have the same effect of nukes.

That's nice, so are you going to answer my question?

I thought I did.
When I said nukes I was thinking in nuke-like capabilities, but not exactly nukes.
Who knows what other weapons of mass destruction exists out there and we don't know about them.

[Neil]

Why would aliens use something as inefficient as nuclear weapons?

Quickly applying thrust.  Large-scale earthmoving on planets.

[Razgovory]

Why do you think the Alien warships are going to be in low orbit?
They are going to hold at their maximum effective range, and nuke our cities one by one until we submit to their rule.
If we don't, then they'll just glass our planet and wait a couple centuries to come back and start mining our resources.

What makes you think that aliens would have warships?

Why would they want to mine the earth?  Of all the things an advanced civilization might want with the Earth mining would seem pretty low.

[Josquius]

Aliens want us to die; we die.
Keeping nukes as a alien defence is not just silly but insane.

[Neil]

It was the term Timmay used.
I don't know jack about Aliens.
Maybe a simple exploration ship is so far advanced that have the capability to nuke cities with their single energy weapon.
Technology is a bitch.
I wonder what a modern destroyer could have done against the entire Armada Invencible.

It's unlikely that a starship would use an energy weapon, especially one that could destroy a city.  Wasteful.  Inefficient.

[Razgovory]

Btw, how did alien invasion get involved in this?

[jimmy olsen]

It was the term Timmay used.
I don't know jack about Aliens.
Maybe a simple exploration ship is so far advanced that have the capability to nuke cities with their single energy weapon.
Technology is a bitch.
I wonder what a modern destroyer could have done against the entire Armada Invencible.

They would probably use kinetic energy weapons.

[Neil]

Why would they want to mine the earth?  Of all the things an advanced civilization might want with the Earth mining would seem pretty low.

Not a bad point.  Lifting all that material into space would be a huge waste of resources.