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KAREN ROWAN: Could Extraterrestrials Really Invade Earth, and How? I don?t find this story particu?

By Glenn Reynolds

KAREN ROWAN: Could Extraterrestrials Really Invade Earth, and How? I don’t find this story particularly thoughtful. Aliens wouldn’t have to send an army. A quarter-pound of lethal nanobots would do for a planet — and paranoid aliens would send them just out of fear that a hostile intelligence might evolve some day.

A good fictional treatment is in Greg Bear’s The Forge Of God, For the more technically-inclined, there’s Ernst Fasan’s Relations With Extraterrestrial Intelligences, or some chapters in McDougal, Lasswell, and Vlasic’s Law and Public Order In Space. Kind of old, but still good. A more recent popular treatment that’s worth your time is Ben Bova and Byron Preiss’s Are We Alone in the Cosmos? The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millenium.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 01, 2010 (boomark / email).