I'm in pretty good shape: North Carolina is in the eighth spot. "The 10 States Most Likely to Survive an Alien Invasion".
Virginia's number one, but with the electorate there currently swollen with Democrats working in D.C., an alien invasion might be more of a net positive.
"Yew jes' climb back in that thar spaceship, pilgrim, and head on over to New Yawrk or Chicago or some other Yankee ant hill."
Update The study linked above only deals with the U.S. I put the question to my Australian readers: what you gonna do when the aliens come for you?
rural VA maybe, but I have my doubts about NoVA.
ReplyDeleteIf the aliens came out against Trump, NOVA's population (most of it) would embrace them, no questions asked.
DeleteI'd say Tennessee, upstate NY and W Virginia would be the most likely.
ReplyDeleteMountainous and riddled with caves and mines for your protection.
I agree. I'm not really sure about the criteria used. I mean, Massachusetts? Massachusetts takes the third spot on the list at 7.81. The state has 10.34 scientists and 10.46 engineers per 1000 people, trumping most other locations. Massachusetts also has 35.12 healthcare professionals per 1000, which is the most of all states in the top 10. I'm not sure how useful the health care workers are going to be in cases of vaporization.
DeleteYeah, the criteria are questionable, as the categories are too broad.
DeleteFor example, "military" does not mean fighting skills, let alone fighting spirit, especially when you consider many of those military work in the Pentagon and other national HQs.
I'd rather have a squad of retired grunts than a company of staff pukes.
Mass pols would probably Blame Trump! and side with the aliens.
DeleteThen blame Trump as they were being shoved in the cookpots.
Australia is uninvadable, which makes us complacent. Look at the satellite image - mostly desert, or hostile rainforest along the northeast coast. Sparse population, only 20 plus million? Good luck hunting them down in the bush. The Japanese realised it was pointless.
ReplyDeleteAlso, old Australians have left the cities for 'tree change' like me, or sea change along the less inhabited coast. We don't care if the cities are over-run, they already are, somewhat.
HOWEVER, surrounding our coastline and cutting us off from the rest of the world seems possible, and China is already exploring that option.
Back to the stoneage? Could be worse. :-)
Looks like you all will be fine, then.
DeleteWell, our biggest problem seems to be drugs. Somehow large amounts of cocaine come in across the Pacific from S America. Then opiates and metamphetamines. They say per capita we are worst in the world. A kick in the pants back to survival mode would get us back to reality, I reckon. Aborigines could also show us all the bush skills they claim, if they remember. It would help them get off their backsides too.
DeleteI had made plenty of visits to Perth/Fremantle and Sydney, but in the 'Oughts I made a couple visits to Darwin. After that, if anybody asked me what that place was like, I told them that if all they knew about Oz was Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max, it would be exactly what you expected.
DeleteWhat if the aliens are from a dry, arid planet and eat venom for breakfast?
DeleteIf the aliens come from a desert planet and eat venom? Sounds like we might get along ok.
DeleteBTW, our smaller cities compete to be drug capitals with Darwin on top:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-10/adelaide-methamphetamine-use-decline-recorded-in-wastewater/10354582
It's much worse than when Stephen visited. Zombie Apocalypse at night:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-13909609/Melbourne-Richmond-heroin-meth-injecting-room.html?ico=related-replace
Few realise the last aborigines to come in from the desert were as recent as 1984, and they were healthier before the got civilised:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintupi_Nine
Illinois isn't in the top ten, but we have a secret weapon if they try to abduct our governor.
ReplyDeleteI doubt, even with their advanced technology, that their spaceship could handle the weight, and would crash, killing all on board.
End of threat, and a big favor to Illinois citizens!
We might try this.
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/rincent_yuzu/status/1816792782587277588
That might work.
DeleteI guess Ohio is boned. However, I don’t live far from the Kentucky border. Can always flee there, lots of caves and distilleries.
ReplyDeleteMmmmmm...Caves and distilleries.
DeleteI'm in.
Do we really have to wait for an alien invasion?
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