OT: A question about the Human Ability to Cope

[Baron Munchausen]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:

AHEM the French army yes..... but just look at the amount of foreign recruits..... and what nationality was its leader?

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If SETI were to receive a signal, the world governments (i.e. the US government which thinks is the world government) would immediately shut down the program and start arming for war.

If an alien landed in Hyde Park, there'd be a crowd of media people around it within hours. It would probably get so freaked out (just think how much a TV camera looks like a rocket launcher or an energy weapon if you don't know what it is, and then there are the helicopters.....) it would either get back in its spaceship and take off again, returning some days later with a battle fleet, or it would attack the crowd, get fired on by the military, take off in its space ship and return some time later with a battle fleet. Either way, we lose.

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In an entirely unrelated matter, I've just noticed SETI hasn't sent me a new data package for at least three days.....

Actually, in that era the French army was almost exclusively French. And the population of France was almost 1/3rd of the total population of Europe at that time, so they could field huge armies relative to any other European state. Sheer numbers had a lot to do with their successes. But Napoleon himself was Corsican, yes...