Could our world today survive the BETA invasion?

Could our world today survive the BETA invasion?

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Yes, because tandem heat ammunition
And we wouldn't hesitate to nuke the moon and or other incoming objects

Muv-luv a shit
Tama a best

great taste, friend

>And we wouldn't hesitate to nuke the moon and or other incoming objects
They literally did that, but the first Hive landing on Earth made everything go to shit

The thing about Laser BETAs is that they are featured as the ultimate anti-air unit when in reality, they should not even be able to penetrate a single cloud
Clouds, like air, are one of the greatest insulators on Earth and the high concentration of water droplets and sometimes, ice, renders any laser penetration almost completely impossible
The only possible way to penetrate it with a laser with at least 1Terrajoule

To compare: lighting has 30 Megajoules
The lightsaber is theorized to be at 1.5 gigajoules
And humans can be vaporized at 3 gigajoules

The laser beta are powerful but not powerful enough to penetrate a ship's hull
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Making it just around 2-5 gigajoule of power. Or just 0.005% of what is needed.

What's more is that, unlike solid materials which melts once enough heat was absorbed, clouds are not. Clouds are filled with static energy and firing lasers at them would only hasten condessation, making the clouds go even thicker. What fails to penetrate it would only make it stronger

Too add further: in order to fuel terajoules of energy, you would also need terrawatts of power which could go higher depending on the laser's length, radius, and burst time.
To give you an idea of how large that is: if you combine ALl the nuclear powerplants in the world, you still won't break 1TW
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But hey, let's be very, very, very kind and say that the Laser BETA have evolved to meet all this requirements.
Then, guess what? You are now going to face the greatest problem: Heat Transfer

A single lightning is capable of heating up the air by up to 30,000 kelvin. The sole reason why many survives this is because it lasts only for 0.0003 seconds
Keep in mind that an average lightning bolt has only 1 terawatt of power streched out by 6 miles, in a bolt only a centimeter in diameter, and travels at 1/100th the speed of light

If we assume that a BETA can fire a 1 Terajoule of laser streched out by a lenght of 36,000 kilometers, with a diameter of 6 centimeters, for a burst that lasts for 1 second, then boy...you are going to create a firestorm
And not just any firestorm. Superheated air turns into plasma and the presence of fast moving particles would compress the air in such a way that you would create a fiery shockwave that would disintegrate both you and the ones you love.

Tl;dr
Fuck your dreams.

>tank
>light armor

So what's muvluv's explanation for making land based rocket/conventional artillery ineffective against beta?

It's to slow to maneuver and not really useful against enemies that travel underground.

No, we have absolutely no way to defend against their tunneling, nor counter it in any meaningful way, even nuclear weapons would be ineffective against it. Their actual land stuff isn't all that good, but the tunneling combined with their numbers would make it absurdly one-sided.

We have Seismometers and Bunker busting nukes since 100-50 years ago.

A bunkerbusting nuke won't do shit, what are you going to do against a giant swarm with thousands of tunnels being made daily? A nuke is smalltime, you can't possibly cover all their activity with nukes and even if you could you'd fuck it up more for yourself than for them. This is assuming you notice them in time and they aren't too deep, because you can't nuke your own positions and cities.

Aside from those nukes, we have absolutely nothing that can affect stuff more than 50m down.

physics > beta confirmed.

That's what the GBU-43/B is for.

A bunker busting nuke's purpose is to collapse entire tunnel systems actually.
And yes, it can penetrate 15-30 meters down before exploding into a massive fireball that can earthquakes that would level down entire cities from hundreds of miles away.

>Mohs-15
What sranty-eye sperg thought this sounded intelligent or cool?

Do we really need giant mecha?

>measuring distance in miles

What a way to make all your points invalid.

Depends. What is cooler than a giant mecha?

Giant mecha with tits. C'mon, that's not even a hard question.

Right. It should be 9656064 milimeters

A giant tank?

A giant mecha tank with tits