<![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Jeez, now the aliens are going to KNOW we aren't ready for an attack, so they'll be sure to attack us now. Thanks a LOT, io9!

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]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Don't mess with Giant Robo! Punch! Robo!

Angryrider

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @Jeff-Minor: In the novel Footfall the invaders have inherited their tech and spent lifetimes in transit to Earth so it's feasible alien tech wouldn't be that hugely advanced; it also makes for a good story :)

Spakkenkhrist

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @Capn_Marrrrk: Except that Giant Robo has an auto-guard circuit that puts him into autonomous mode when the brat in the short pants is threatened.

AmishJohn

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Zim (to schoolteacher): In the event of, oh say, a full scale alien invasion, how well prepared do you think this planet's defenses would be? Tell me!!!

eli

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> I think the Iron Giant would win, because he's filled with love! Besides, if an alien civilization can make it this far, chances are pretty good they could just vaporize us with some really great lasers from orbit.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Screw giant robots... after reading World War Z, I'm far more concerned about our military's inability to fight off hordes of the living undead!

Still, heard this guy on Coast To Coast the other night, and on the radio, he sounds like a fairly hip dude.

DCI Gene Hunt

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> ...not to mention how unprepared we are for an invasion of alien micro-organisms...

Hekkashesh

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> I'm sorry, but Robot Armies are absolutely not the best way to defend against an alien invasion. Even if said robot army would indeed defeat said alien invasion, the robots would almost certainly turn on humanity and either exterminate or subjugate us all.

It's just common sense, people!

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> A Giant Robot is only as good as the security of it's weak spot.

Take out the kid with the watch barking orders and it's Game Over Giant Robo.

Capn_Marrrrk

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @Pope John Peeps II: Excellent point.

Yeah, I guess there's no getting around it. A Cthulhu invasion would suck hard core.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @braak: Also, he makes you crazy when you look at him. So any sort of "identifying of weak spots" would result in a horrordarkpulsinggoatfetus

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @aedwards000: this just in. nerds never get laid put down trite and unimaginative.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Could robot scorpions ever create a monster ballad as powerful as their biological counterpart's "Wind of Change"?

Dnyels

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> @braak: Well, bummer for us humans, then...

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> This just in. Daniel Wilson's new book: "How to Never Get Laid"

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]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> MMMMM...Cloverfield Monster burritos.

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]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> This would fail against Cthulhu, who, while humanoid-octopoid in shape, is actually composed of some kind of homogenous astral substance. He has no internal organs to speak of, and is capable of reintegrating his structure after it is destroyed.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Robotics Expert Daniel Wilson Says Earth is Unprepared for Alien Invasion]]> Is that Johnny Socko's Giant robot? That guy could kick some alien butt, back in the old days.

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