What matters militarily also doesn't really mean anything to how civilians would react. Nobody at any point is doubting that the military could wipe Aliens out. The question is at what cost.
QuoteYou are also assuming the Aliens would make a point out of killing the power grids, and f**king around with sewage and water.
No, I'm just going by how that's what they always do in the stories. It's not that they necessarily understand the strategic significance of these locations, they just like building nests in them. Every film shows them setting up shop in reactors, in sewers, in basements, in the bowels of ships.
Quotejust drop a battalion of combat MPs around those points after you knew the Aliens were targeting them and rock on.
Again you're missing the point that I am, and always have been, discussing a situation where the Aliens have
already set in.
The parasitic nature of the Alien with a long gestation period is actually what made them a threat to earth, but everything post - AvP has turned them into microwave popcorn that would quickly be identified and killed.
In their current form, no, I don't see any world ending threat.
But if you have an infected population that's slow to gestate and able to move globally at speed, you get small, easy to miss pockets of Aliens establishing themselves everywhere very quickly. By the time those pockets get big enough to raise concern, they're already dug in.
That's the dangerous scenario, and one that no amount of military might is going to make easy or convenient work of. The analogy that's usually used is a cancerous growth. By the time it causes symptoms, it's grown too big to safely remove.
Totally we can just blow them up. We'll just f**k ourselves over in the process.
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Acid is kind of bullshit honestly on a terrestrial planet. If you can smoke the Alien from five hundred yards out as its trying to get you, then it is absolutely no threat. Let it eat a hole into the earth. Big deal.
The Alien isn't going to rush you at 500 yards in an open field. It's going to stay covered and sneak from your sewers, in your subways, from the maintenance access, from basements.
They're not as sneaky as they think they are if the military is equipped with motion trackers. And they're even less of a threat to automated sentry guns.
I remember the motion trackers being pretty useless at actually telling the Marines where the Aliens were until they were almost literally falling on them. And the guns ran dry with minimal casualties.