I welcome our new alien overlords

Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…

"We'll take your women to bare our children"

"The volunteers are lining up already"

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humans-2
- Gee thanks for linking the comic where I stole the joke from :p

You know what, this makes a good point. The only people who will be truly more fucked then they are right now when the alien apocalypse comes is the 1% because now they are just a bunch of powerless slaves

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.
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.
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.
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.

Alien: we will poison your oceans with synthetic micro particles

Human: got that too.

Alien: that it’s, time for the big stuff. We will create elaborate torture schedules that give you soul crushing tasks while slowly making all good things in your life worse as we condition you that it’s all your fault.

Human: oh boy, you should probably sit down for this…

Alien: fine! it sure would be a shame if something happened to these lovely polar ice caps...we shall slowly but surely shift your planet's entire climate, until eventually you will boil like lobsters and the oceans rise!
- Been there, done that
A lot of companies in europe are moving back to a more natural, less soul-crushing work days and work weeks. For example making 6 hour work day standard, making half the days in the week shorter or just making friday free. Not to mention siestas and all that.

I find mining very interesting, especially the reclamation aspect. There are tons of issues to get things back to chemically and physically stable.

The mine shown here is the Ekati Mine in NWT Canada. It's set to close in 2029. All mines must have a plan for closure, and these plans, at least in NWT are public.

Here is the one for Ekati. https://registry.mvlwb.ca/Documents/W2020L2-0004/Ekati - CRP Version 3.1 - Part 1 - Aug 15_23.pdf

Closure plans are super long: the summary text is often 200 to 300 pages, and with the associated appendices are like 1-3k pages in length and are highly technical

Fortunately, Section 1 (page 49) has a plain language summary of the closure plan. Here you can find a summary of major closure strategies for things like pits and waste rock dumps

These plans get more and more certain as they revise them and approach the end of operations.

Fill your boots! There is some cool stuff in the closure plan if you're inclined to learn more!

Basically the plot of 3 Body Problem

I've only read the first book and wow it was dumb. I felt duped.

A civilization capable of building colony ships that can reach 1% speed of light and proton sized supercomputers were just sitting around waiting for a signal? Why haven't these mofos built those ships already to reach a nearest star already? Just park those ships in Goldilocks' zone and then start searching for other suitable planet to colonize or terraform.

Not to mention life on their planet gets wiped out constantly and yet intelligent life capable of spaceflight evolved there? Sorry, can't buy it at all.

Just a jenga of unbelievable premises.
- Agreed 100%. Be thankful you didn't read the 2nd book. So ridiculously silly and predictable. To the point of absurdity.
  
  I love sci-fi. Cool unique ideas, terrible execution. These books are so overrated.