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Why are some people obsessed with aliens conquering Earth? If you have the technology to do interstellar flight, surely you have advanced refining/processing t
by jotm 9y ago
Why are some people obsessed with aliens conquering Earth?
If you have the technology to do interstellar flight, surely you have advanced refining/processing tech, and you can get raw materials anywhere - the other planets and asteroid belt nearby are full of everything. You probably have robots to do all your work, too.
There's no need to enslave some species to make them work for you or risk losing anything in a potential fight (pretty sure even advanced aliens would be wary of nuclear weapons) or deal with gravity/atmospheric/natural conditions of this planet for some resources that can be found elsewhere.
If anything (as we kind of learned by now), dealing via peaceful means would be way more productive. Just provide some high tech or rare minerals and we'll gladly mine the shit out of the planet ourselves.
- krapp 9y agoWhich does beg the question, assuming UFOs are aliens, why do they seem to only be here? Why aren't they also mining Jupiter and Titan, or colonizing Mars or something?
- nisten 9y agoIf they study our past signals they will see that we've knowingly caused the extinctions of other living beings and frequently make even our species suffer. Which means, in the event that we get technologically capable enough to reach another planet with intelligent life, we're very likely to do the same thing to them. Therefore the only logical choice for that alien civilization are to either try and take control of our planet or just outright wipe us out. No?