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If you have the ability to travel between stars, it doesn't seem like there's still need to conquer a planet for resources - except for resources that aren't na
by chii 3y ago
If you have the ability to travel between stars, it doesn't seem like there's still need to conquer a planet for resources - except for resources that aren't natural.
For example, you can easily just get water from comets/asteroids, mineral resources from uninhabited planets (easier than to fight the inhabitants), and gas/fuel from the gas giants.
However, one resource you cannot get is slaves. Therefore, i predict that any advanced civilization that can travel between stars would actually invade to capture the life forms as slaves, rather than to extract resources.
- nurettin 3y agoI'd imagine that kind of advancement would bring forth genetic engineering, clones and droids to perform physical tasks.
- adamcharnock 3y agoThis reminds me of the short story 'Ansible 15715'. I won't spoil it, but they had a use for us and it wasn't as slaves.
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- flgstnd 3y agoI think if you have the ability the travel between stars you probably also have machines to do work way more effectively than using human slaves. Maybe they could use humans for a zoo or something.
- exe34 3y agoWell as two armed slaves, we'd be useless at handling their devices that require all 8 tentacles... We might not even be useful as snacks, having picked the wrong handed proteins. They might annihilate us out of frustration and build a hyperspace bypass instead.
- hugryhoop 3y agoMaybe they want to steal our memes.
- perlgeek 3y agoMaybe a complete biosphere is still a valuable target for resource exploitation?