You joke.
But in the 1970's the Clangers had already built a self sustaining moon colony, developed optics advanced enough to clearly observe human behaviour on earth on a person by person basis and constructed a fully self-aware robot chicken.
Understandably, they kept their defensive and military capabilities under wraps, but considering the advancements in technology they were openly demonstrating 50 years ago, it's safe to say that they'd be a considerable adversary in the 21st century. At the very least, I'd imagine they'd have a fully developed arsenal of Neutron Bombs and Gauss cannons.
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Luckily the chicken relocated to the US and had a comedy career.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mb23xZI3AWc
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jul 2020, 20:51,
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