Which actually leads me to thinking that a space-adapted race really doesn't want to bother with planets and their big ass gravity well. Resource extraction fr

Which actually leads me to thinking that a space-adapted race really doesn't want to bother with planets and their big ass gravity well. Resource extraction from asteroids or moons is a lot easier than carting it out of a big gravity well. Building stations in zero G rather than having to worry about orbital degradation and the like. Atmospheres get in the way of solar energy collection. Earth is probably only useful as a vacation destination. Unless of course all those UFO reports are actual physics-defying antigrav drives with little green men.