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Real talk. Would aliens even want our natural resources? Like they could travel the cosmos. Our planet is made up of elements that are already available to them before they get here.
Like our planet doesn't have anything special when it comes to resources.
Exactly. Humans are so goddamn ego-centric that we think everything is about us.
The aliens not only look like us, they operate spacecraft in the same way that we operate vehicles!
The aliens will come here to take our resources just like we do in the Middle East!
The aliens abducted me and probed my butthole just like Uncle Cletus used to!
etc. etc.
Can't find your uncle.
The only thing I can think that would be unique is the life on this planet and the way it's adapted and formed. We'd likely just be studied.
That is until they find out about the seven dragonballs.
So basically we are a natural resource.
More like a nature preserve. They'd probably be ecstatic about national parks like Yellowstone and Sarangeti
It has resource extracting infrastructure already! Plus free labor! (A rare resource in the cosmos)
Keep in mind that they have near limitless energy if they are able to travel here.
It's like asking ants to help my excavator dig a hole.
They could experience time differently than us though. Also, Limitless energy doesn't mean that they conjur up as much extra energy as they need.
They might not care about waiting a or ten thousand years while we do it for them.
I mean, space travel is not free energy. These aliens would have to evolve and invent interplanetary flight. Then be able to travel FASTER than the speed of light to get to us. That's if they are located in our Milky Way. If they are not, they probably need wormholes or some science fiction level imagination to get to us.
It's got delicious CEO's
What if they need water?
Drain our oceans and fuck up our ecosystems and weather balance.
The ocean is earths heatsink. Imagen extreme temperature changes across the planet. All life as we know it could end.
Water is nothing but 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen. They bond fairly easily at room temp. While yes, it would be faster to just suck up water from our oceans, it's extremely more energy intensive to travel to our part of the milky way. They could literally hit up a hydrogen intense moon/planet and another oxygen one and just make it themselves with the little energy it needs for it to bond.
I think the main difference between our planet and others like ours that would be more rare is life. Being the only sentient planet that we know of makes us more special.
So potentially they are just abducting us to probe our butts.
With any luck it would be Alien archeologists that want to observe the rare primitivities and not intervene.
The prime directive.
They are probably watching us destroy our planet and observing and recording. How nature conservancy folks don't intervine when an animal is doing something self destructive.
Not all planets are the same, even within our solar system. Although it's hard to think a space travelling species would come all the way to Earth for them. On the other hand Earth could provide a comfortable home base from where they could mine minerals, metals and harvest hydrocarbons. It's easier to mine on Earth than on an asteroid.
If you look at where we are on the milky way, we are pretty far from all the other clusters. Like they gotta REALLY want something here they can't find elsewhere. Maybe life is what they want and maybe we are the natural resource that other planets don't have.
Judging by how things have been going, it would probably be something stupid like fossil “fuels” having unique valuable properties as a high tech material, but then the aliens arrive and say “you fucking lit it all on fire?!?!?”
I guess fossil fuel would be unique to our planet.