When Aliens attack on the discovery channel
Did anyone have a chance to check out this show.
Its based around the premise of an alien invasion in the future with interviews by weapons designers, Nasa Engineers, Anthropologists etc.
Basically it simulates what would happen if Aliens invade our planet one day, at first we try to fight back with our advanced weapons and are completely wiped out. they ask why Aliens would come here and the theory is that it wasn't for water or minerals since there is plenty of that in the known universe, they come for the two things that are almost exclusive to our planet. Chlorophyll and proteins.
As the Aliens wipe out our defenses and even our experimental rumored weapons suck as rail guns and the X-37B Airforce and high tech energy weapons, the humans desperately hit the alien with a 250 kiloton nuke, but as one scientist says Aliens that can travel across space at high velocity get hit thousands of times a day by tiny rocks traveling at high speeds imparting kinetic energy several times that of a nuclear explosion.
In the end Man kind goes to asymmetrical warfare tactics and try biological warfare which also fails.
finally they do defeat the aliens with a decidedly low tech solution.
The show is very well done, the CGI is excellent and the interviews and examples of how things work is really interesting.
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