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Robin Winterschon

@gdinwiddie There’s really only two things that I can imagine an extraterrestrial being would want from us: Our dirt and/or our culture.

You can get pretty much all other types of resources from elsewhere in the universe. Water/Ice is all over, metals, gases, etc. Our decomp. organic matter is unique to our planet, as is our culture.

So basically our culture is worth as much as dirt (to an extraterrestrial)

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frank87
@robin_winters @gdinwiddie Great, they enslave use to use our culture...
mike805

@robin_winters @gdinwiddie There are two logical reasons aliens might be hostile. 1) they see us as a threat. We might be one breakthrough away from near light speed spaceflight, and humans would spread like a plague if we got loose.

2) they want the planet. Habitable planets are rare, terraforming doesn't work well, and the easiest way to find habitable planets is to do large scale passive SETI and wait for some idiot to broadcast his presence.

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