Post by auntym on Jan 16, 2014 11:40:48 GMT -6
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ALIEN INVASION COUNTDOWN
No one knows how it will happen, but leading scientists believe that some day we will make contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence. And if the aliens make it to Earth, they may not come in peace. In the event of a hostile alien visitation, here's how it might play out...
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF...?
Sometime in the future - possibly the very near future - the world will go about its business as usual. But at a remote observatory, a space anomaly is reported. Something unusual - and large - appears to be approaching Earth. Experts aren't sure how to react. The first sighting alerts sky-watchers around the world...
8 HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
Astronomers scramble to analyse an object only 8,000 kilometres from Earth - closer than our moon. It has crept into earth's orbit with no warning. The next group to take an interest in the anomaly is military.
US Space Command uses global satellite tracking systems, telescopes and radar to search for any type of airborne or space threat. The object is not natural.
TWO HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
At US Space Command, astronomers don't know if the anomaly is an actual vehicle. Then comes confirmation; in a solar system where every object is constantly in motion, the unknown object stops. Space Command officials agree that it must be powered.
The next step is to establish contact. The UN Office of Outer Space Affairs committee quickly crafts a simple message, transmitted to the spacecraft over television and radio signal. The message is transmitted simultaneously in the most widely spoken languages of the world: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic and Hindi.
Astronomers see no response to Earth's communication. Space Command attempts contact using the universal language of mathematics in a sequence of prime numbers.
CONTACT
As the craft approaches Earth, screens go blank, data streams cut out, and communications suddenly cease. Cell phone calls are dropped and TV images go out. All of Earth's satellites fail, but optical and radio telescopes are still receiving information. The aliens have knocked out satellite communication.
THREE HOURS AFTER CONTACT
Militaries prepare for the worst. Squadrons of F-18s - possibly our planet's most effective and versatile air-to-air weapon - scramble into action. But, for alien crafts to travel through the stars, they have propulsion technologies beyond physics that we even understand and can evade F-18 missiles fired at twice the speed of sound.
Militaries try to intercept and decode alien communication. Humvees with broadcast dishes target alien crafts with microwaves to jam signals, cyber-attacking invaders.
On the ground, a desperate military unleashes experimental weapons like the U.S. Air Force's highly classified X-37B spacefighter. But experimental weapons are no match.
CONTINUE READING: natgeotv.com/uk/alien-invasion/what-would-happen-if
ALIEN INVASION COUNTDOWN
No one knows how it will happen, but leading scientists believe that some day we will make contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence. And if the aliens make it to Earth, they may not come in peace. In the event of a hostile alien visitation, here's how it might play out...
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF...?
Sometime in the future - possibly the very near future - the world will go about its business as usual. But at a remote observatory, a space anomaly is reported. Something unusual - and large - appears to be approaching Earth. Experts aren't sure how to react. The first sighting alerts sky-watchers around the world...
8 HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
Astronomers scramble to analyse an object only 8,000 kilometres from Earth - closer than our moon. It has crept into earth's orbit with no warning. The next group to take an interest in the anomaly is military.
US Space Command uses global satellite tracking systems, telescopes and radar to search for any type of airborne or space threat. The object is not natural.
TWO HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
At US Space Command, astronomers don't know if the anomaly is an actual vehicle. Then comes confirmation; in a solar system where every object is constantly in motion, the unknown object stops. Space Command officials agree that it must be powered.
The next step is to establish contact. The UN Office of Outer Space Affairs committee quickly crafts a simple message, transmitted to the spacecraft over television and radio signal. The message is transmitted simultaneously in the most widely spoken languages of the world: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic and Hindi.
Astronomers see no response to Earth's communication. Space Command attempts contact using the universal language of mathematics in a sequence of prime numbers.
CONTACT
As the craft approaches Earth, screens go blank, data streams cut out, and communications suddenly cease. Cell phone calls are dropped and TV images go out. All of Earth's satellites fail, but optical and radio telescopes are still receiving information. The aliens have knocked out satellite communication.
THREE HOURS AFTER CONTACT
Militaries prepare for the worst. Squadrons of F-18s - possibly our planet's most effective and versatile air-to-air weapon - scramble into action. But, for alien crafts to travel through the stars, they have propulsion technologies beyond physics that we even understand and can evade F-18 missiles fired at twice the speed of sound.
Militaries try to intercept and decode alien communication. Humvees with broadcast dishes target alien crafts with microwaves to jam signals, cyber-attacking invaders.
On the ground, a desperate military unleashes experimental weapons like the U.S. Air Force's highly classified X-37B spacefighter. But experimental weapons are no match.
CONTINUE READING: natgeotv.com/uk/alien-invasion/what-would-happen-if