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One could write a good story on the premise of an alien race who comes to Earth after the loss of their home planet. The aliens then attempt to reactivate dorma
by Victerius 4y ago
One could write a good story on the premise of an alien race who comes to Earth after the loss of their home planet. The aliens then attempt to reactivate dormant submarine volcanoes to create a new continent for themselves in the Pacific Ocean.
- eloff 4y agoIf alien settlers arrive at Earth it will be more akin to what European settlers did to the buffalo than the Native Americans. Nuisance fuana to be pushed out of the way / eliminated.
- lost_tourist 4y agoYep they likely will just wipe out any race intelligent enough to give them or their terraforming activities any issue. There is no reason to expect them to be nice to a species as primitive as us.
- oneoff786 4y agoIf you start with the assumption that you’re dealing with a ruthless expansionist terraforming alien race, sure.
- eloff 4y agoIf an alien colonization fleet is in orbit around Earth, that's a fair assumption. They didn't come all those lightyears just to have tea and biscuits. They're not likely to just move on just because there are some buffalo already living there. We wouldn't.
- m4rtink 4y agoIt still depends - if you travel lightyears with a sizeable fleet just to capture a specific planet for living space alone, something is seriously wrong with your race anyway (unless you have some yet unknown transportation technology) as you could likely build uncountable space habitats for all that mass and energy spent & right at the heart of your civilization, not somewhere in the sticks with no friendly infra where Earth is. You need a deeper purpose our you would not be there. Like doing it just for fun or something. :-)
- oneoff786 4y agoBecause a colonization fleet around earth would only happen if those assumptions held first
- causality0 4y agoYeah though to be realistic if you're advanced enough to colonize over interstellar distances you probably don't even need a planet.
- radicaldreamer 4y agoYou’d think so but we’re advanced enough to live in some of the most barren places on Earth — Siberia, Antarctica, the Sahara - but most people would surely prefer Bali or California (leaving aside community and social ties etc.)
- dylan604 4y agoBut if your only other choice was a ship floating in space for the rest of however long, those barren places on a planet might start looking good
- echelon 4y agoBiologicals won't leave their solar system. The AIs that don't need biochemical metabolisms, caloric intake, gasses, gravity, etc. will. Brains as we know it die, cannot replicate, and take years or decades to train. Hard drives can be duplicated and loaded into memory with no limit. Biology and biological intelligence is a bootstrapping mechanism - a "hard step" [1] or two - leading up to the next stage in the evolution and proliferation of intelligence. All of our science fiction centers on humans, because we write stories about ourselves and what we're familiar with. But that's just fantasy. The future probably looks nothing like what we portray in our films and books. [1] https://grabbyaliens.com/paper https://grabbyaliens.com/paper describes hard steps well and also covers other interesting implications
- throwsec7492 4y agoWould recommend taking a gander at Accelerando by Charles Stross, if you haven’t already.
- the8472 4y agoThat's pretty much the background plot of La Forge de Vulcain https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768022.La_forge_de_Vulcain https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768022.La_forge_de_Vulc...
- stevenwoo 4y agoTo slightly spoil a 20 year old book series, this is a variation of one of the alien conquerer strategies in Frederik Pohl's The Eschaton Sequence to subjugate recalcitrant planets.