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The aliens' decision to surrender without trying to negotiate terms is not quite completely nonsensical because they knew about Earth's rules and customs regarding surrender. But it makes zero sense for Earth to offer to surrender to surrender to a completely unknown alien species without any attempt to negotiate and without even a shred of information about what terms the aliens might decide to impose.
thank you for helping me with my decision of how wanted to spend 25 minutes of my life. I wish ZREN would read more often. Feathered voices is good,, think hes going by birblton VA now... meh. Good luck fellow listener, thanks again for the informative comment.
Spoiler! Read only after hearing the full story . . . . . . It's just a teeny, tiny invasion. . . . . . They're Smurf sized. . . . "What's this I hear about an invasion, little fella?" Lol. Hahaha.
Xenon is produced as a byproduct from liquid-air plants. World production is currently ca 10 million litres (10,000 m3, around 60 tonnes) per year of which 15% is used as an anesthetic. It's going to take a long time to refuel those ships. And keeping the aliens in cryosleep is no answer: Actual cryosleep, where a person is frozen, is likely impossible. Freezing causes water to crystallize. The ice crystals that form tear apart cell walls and end up shredding most of your tissues. There are only a handful of animals on Earth that can be fully frozen and make it out alive. And even if that problem is solved cryosleep doesn't stop the nuclear decay of the atoms in your body. One estimate of human radioactivity is that about 5000 potassium atoms undergo radioactive decay each second, and there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year so for a 400 year trip... and that's just for potassium. The damage caused to critical tissues like gray matter, from the radiation this releases is one thing, the changes in chemistry as something like carbon 14 turns into nitrogen is another.
Earth will not suffer an " Independent Day / Day the Earth Stood Still scenario " for several reasons.. the rings of Saturn & Uranus and the Astroids Belt. If the Aliens or Visitors are carbon - based life; ice water from the rings will substain them while the Astroids Belt has abundant minerals from a large planet that explored thousands or hundreds of years ago and humanity has yet to explore our solar system to get them!! Plus, our technology isn't advanced enough to fight any space fairing species capable of space travel or settlement among planets within our solar system. There is more these resources to share and no need to fight since the inhabitants died or left for better prospects. Another reason we had no contact with otger species is we do not value life or peace among ourselves. So what other races will take a chance forging a trade or meeting with us until we settle our differences first!!! The last few centuries of visits by the " Grey People " that raid Earth and taking prisoners and animals / plants for DNA is not invasion or humanity would have been enslaved by now and put to work stripping this planet, Mars & Venus. Too much fear mongering for an invasion that will never come!!!!
My first thought with the discovery of an incoming Alien fleet,.. it was possibly refugees?.. Not invaders given the size of it.. I'd guess that species survival was a more likely reason to travel here before waiting until they could develop FTL and a much easier trip with more options like opting for uninhabited by sentients choice than a possibly violent societal clash that could kill us both off. Their chosen solution, outstanding!!!... both survive and continue, a joint venture to stay connected and advance both our scientific knowledge.. The ones who opt to stay on Earth greatly advance expanding exploration and resource gathering here in our system aiding us locally, as we gather the fuel they need.. our volunteers who travel with them to a different system grant us the huge benefit of being on more than one world,.. So we can have other options if we ever faced a mass extinction event like they did. Each building new, smaller fleets to land on other unoccupied worlds, so no need to fight over a landing.. a VERY well thought out story, one that supposes both species are ultimately a moral people who are happy to help each other rather than just fight. Exploring better options that benefit both species.. Thank you.. a very good story based on actual realities as we know them.. and one aimed at a better future for all.🤔🤔
very concise but i have to point out they thought they would conquer where ever they landed with their 25k mechanized army but we had evolved quicker then they could imagine. that's why i loved the mutual 'we surrender' both sides were highly rational about their situations given what they knew and janet got them thinking of mutual cooperation to the benefit of both. i would love to know how many aliens stayed and how many humans went as both species could learn a lot from the other such a great start
@@yomogami4561 This came from an idea I have for a series of books that follow a group of Humans who embark on a journey like this. I haven't gotten around to writing it yet, but seeing the reaction to the short story, I may move it up in the queue.
@@TheHumanChroniclesHFY I have a few human written stories in the queue (my brain) that have been coagulating for decades. Yes, I am an advanced human writer. The stuff I wrote when I was 8 years old will need a bit of modification.
In my full-length novels, I write them as realistically as I can. But for RU-vid, I will take your advice and keep my videos rated PG. Thanks for your comment.
“the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
There's another story as well where the visitors to Earth happen to be so small that they drown in a small puddle on the landingstrip assigned to them.
If these stories/excerpts are from books of an established author, how did you manage to get permission? And wouldn't he/she allow you to narrate the entire stories?
@@TheHumanChroniclesHFY Ah okay. I have been listening to all of them all night, just got one more to go haha. So all great for your analytics. As a new narrator to this niche, although I have been narrating horror/creepypastas on another channel for 4 years now, are you by chance allowing any other narrators to narrate any of your works?
Can we find out who came up with this brilliant idea that we were heavy gravity? You realize we are a tiny planet with barely enough gravity to hold our atmosphere right? We are a death world? No we are a living planet that is in the Goldilocks zone and our tilted axis is what truly makes us special. Seriously who started this BS without actually knowing how the earth works?… Well I listened to the end and it was this guy .
@@0664mont The ending said this guy admitted all his stories are about making all humans captain America and Superman for the last ten years. He saw Star Wars and thought it wasn’t fair that all humans were not Jedi or something like that. He gave us super hero powers by lying about our gravity and made us freakishly strong. He thinks asteroids are clustered around each other like a maze but they are miles apart but Han Solo flew in asteroid field right? Therefore from this moment forward all asteroids are like that. It would be asking far too much for a writer who writes about space knows what space actually looks like I guess.
I think the point is that Earth is near the limit, as per our current tech, to successfully launch a space ship/rocket outside of its gravitational boundries. We also have to remember that a planet just 1.5-3 times the size of Earth would have up to 100% of our gravity at what would be that world's sea level. So, a 150lbs/68kg person would actually be forced, just by their own bodyweight, to support 300lbs/136kg. The same would go for launching aircraft and spacecraft or rockets from these "super earths" as they are called. This means the bigger you make the rocket to launch into space, the more it weighs. But to even get off of the planet, the species would need a big rocket in modern terms. Its kind of a paradox at that point. To succeed, you would need something that would make it impossible. I think this is why Earth, in these stories, is considered high gravity. As I said before, it is at the top end of gravity, with current tech, that would make travelling to space, or even flight, increasingly difficult. As for the "deathworld" part, it probably could have been true for early humanity or like species that were mainly herbivores and were actual prey for critters like cave bears, sabertooths, giant birds and giant wolves dating from prehistory and the last Ice Ages, where humans and other hominidae species eventually evolved. Another thing that possibly makes Earth unique, at least in the last 300-400 million years are the ocean currents. Before this time, with the continents being mostly concentrated in one area, there was one huge ocean, little to no ocean ice, and it is assumed that currents didn't circulate water as they have in relatively recent history. This lead to, what was found to be massive layers of bacteria and single celled organisms on the planet. If I remember correctly, they released massive amounts of methane and other foul fumes at first, then as they evolved to conduct photosynthesis, massive amounts of oxygen were released into the air and water. At that time, maybe 2.3-2.5 billion years ago, the air on the planet would not even be breathable to most creatures today, and there would have been little to no oxygen in the water. I think this summary explains it better- "The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), also known as the Oxygen Catastrophe or Oxygen Holocaust, was a period between 2.5 and 2.3 billion years ago when oxygen began to accumulate in Earth's atmosphere. This event was caused by cyanobacteria in the ocean producing oxygen through photosynthesis. The oxygen gradually built up in the water and eventually escaped into the atmosphere, where it reacted with methane and displaced it. This led to oxygen becoming a major component of the atmosphere, and the first mass extinction on Earth as anaerobic bacteria were killed." - (AI Overview) At that time, 80% of life, exclusively single celled species, died out. Also, to note is the fact that many iron veins and deposits around the world are a result of that huge layer of bacteria dying or producing oxygen that oxidized iron in the water. Here is some reference- "Banded iron formations are composed of thin alternating layers of chert (a fine-grained form of silica) and iron oxides (magnetite and hematite). Extensive deposits of this rock type are found around the world, almost all of which are more than 1.85 billion years old and most of which were deposited around 2.5 Ga. The iron in banded iron formations is partially oxidized, with roughly equal amounts of ferrous and ferric iron.[31] Deposition of a banded iron formation requires both an anoxic deep ocean capable of transporting iron in soluble ferrous form, and an oxidized shallow ocean where the ferrous iron is oxidized to insoluble ferric iron and precipitates onto the ocean floor.[20] The deposition of banded iron formations before 1.8 Ga suggests the ocean was in a persistent ferruginous state, but deposition was episodic and there may have been significant intervals of euxinia.[32] The transition from deposition of banded iron formations to manganese oxides in some strata has been considered a key tipping point in the timing of the GOE because it is believed to indicate the escape of significant molecular oxygen into the atmosphere in the absence of ferrous iron as a reducing agent.[33]" - (Wikipedia) It is a long read, but I think that you are right about nobody in these mostly AI generated stories paying attention to what could actually make Earth unique. Think about what very specific events, extinctions and conditions would have to occur for such massive iron deposits to oxidize in the ocean? On the same note, look at coal or oil. All of these "natural" elements were created by the mass dying off of specifice life, at certain times under just the right conditions. If Earth is 1 in 10 million planets that could hold life, 1 in a billion that could have intelligent life, it is probably to a factor of 10 that is where it is near a stable star, has its atmosphere, magnetic field, a moon, a tilt, awater/land balance and those three materials that made human technological evolution surge forward.
@@jlawsl heat plus water makes a very nice cradle for life. If anything makes us special it would have to be a vibrant ecosystem with a diverse variety of metals like your oxidation. I fear for future generations to look at those stories as fact. Example: everyone thinks asteroids are like Star Wars including me when in fact they are miles away from other asteroids and logic stands that the movies show them smashing up into each other then obviously they must look like that. Are you sure of the math on the gravity? 300lbs? Seems pretty high because we have an iron core so what if a different planet has nickel or uranium. Can a different core determine gravity and size of a planet?
