Not many people feel confident about surviving an alien invasion (Picture: Getty)
Could you survive an alien invasion? Most Brits aren’t so sure.
A recent poll has revealed that around a third of UK residents believe they’re unlikely to survive if hostile Martians invaded Earth.
What’s more, a third think they’d be lucky to survive more than one month – with just 1 in 10 feeling confident they’d survive more than one year.
The survey of 2,000 people was conducted by Layered Reality, a company behind a new immersive experience based on Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds musical.
Those polled reveal the first things they’d do if Martians did indeed land on Earth tomorrow is find friends and family (26%), find essential supplies (20%) and run or hide (18%). One in ten say they’d say hello.
Others say they’d ask the Martians to take them back to their planet with them (11%), while some (5%) admit they’d get intimate with the nearest human.
Four in ten say they’d save their children or their partner first in the event of a Martian invasion, followed by themselves (33%).
It seems a large portion of the nation’s population love pets more than people too, with a fifth of Brits revealing they’d save their pet before anyone else.
Andrew McGuinness, CEO of Layered Reality, said: ‘Extraterrestrial life remains one of the world’s biggest curiosities, so it’s no wonder that Brits today are thinking about the possibility of them invading Earth.’
Despite one third of Brits (33%) saying they think about Earth being invaded by Martians at least once a year, a whopping six in ten reveal they feel unprepared for a hostile Martian invasion.
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