I had an idea the other day that spooked me slightly
If aliens wanted to take over our planet, then using their supremely advanced weapons would be A) too easy, and B) likely to destroy everything valuable on the planet.

So instead it might make more sense from their point of view to infiltrate us and slowly change our way of thinking into their way of thinking. Not only conquering us, but conquering us with minimal fighting. Of course there would be those that resisted and those ones would have to be made an example of, but the majority would go along with it, many actively but most passively.

Let's say that if they wanted to do this, they would be better off doing it in a period before we got properly industrialised but after we had started to accept that there might be more to life than serving your feudal lord.

Perhaps they would find a continent unknown to the most developed parts of the world, form a colony there founded upon their principles and slowly (from our point of view) use that colony to take over the rest of the planet with carefully regimented propaganda, so that eventually everyone on the planet was singing their tune.
(Eukanuba, Thu 2 May 2013, 8:09, 13 replies)

Like
this just with less Rowdy Roddy Piper?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 May 2013, 8:18, closed)

I've always meant to watch that but never got round to it
Is it good? Does it risk further loosening my grip on reality?
(Eukanuba, Thu 2 May 2013, 8:33, closed)

Fucking good
Rarely would I recommend a movie more.
Unless maybe it was Repo Man.

Watched the Hobbit last night. It could've been a Christopher Tolkien book.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 May 2013, 8:53, closed)

Has one of the silliest fight scenes in any film ever
It goes on for about 5 mins. They batter each other. Over putting on a pair of magic specs
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 2 May 2013, 9:15, closed)

Umm.
Rowdy Roddy Piper
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 May 2013, 9:34, closed)

By silliest, you mean best, right?
Or maybe you weren't seeing it right and need to put on the glasses?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 2 May 2013, 9:43, closed)

Coca Cola did it in 1971.
Later recorded by The New Seekers.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 2 May 2013, 8:34, closed)

That's been a ubiquitous scifi trope for eighty years.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 2 May 2013, 10:04, closed)

Missed the mark yet again old man.
Messers Dick, Huxley, Bradbury and Bester would be horrified.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 May 2013, 10:23, closed)

I wonder
Does that fact do anything to change the likelihood of it being true?
(Eukanuba, Thu 2 May 2013, 10:24, closed)

Is this Transformers?

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 2 May 2013, 10:37, closed)

BEST. ANSWER. EVER.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 May 2013, 11:00, closed)

Well that certainly explains why the Brazilian football team is so good.
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Thu 2 May 2013, 10:54, closed)