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From: JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Aliens would not be on our side
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:23:05 -0400
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On 4/21/25 2:14 AM, JTEM wrote:
> 
> Think of the classic concept of "Aliens" -- the SciFi Martians,
> perhaps -- those aliens couldn't exist. We'd have nothing
> of ours that they'd want.
> 
> Information? Data? I suppose that's possible. But it's ridiculous
> to think of aliens crossing the vastness of space for our natural
> resources.
> 
> Imagine the cost, even in just resources, to travel all the way
> here, collect & store whatever resources you were in need of,
> then transporting them back to your home planet... the
> investment would represent orders of magnitude more than the
> return. Unless...
> 
> Unless you saw "Independence Day."
> 
> This is a scenario that works, I'm afraid, perhaps the only
> scenario that works.
> 
> To colonize Mars or even our moon people would have to be
> effectively isolated from their environment. They'd need to
> live in a bubble, shielded from their world and it's atmosphere.
> 
> So why bother with Mars or the moon? Just build that bubble that
> the colony needs to live in, slap a couple of engines to it and
> you have a space colony.
> 
> THAT is a formula that works. And THOSE are aliens that might want
> our resources.
> 
> So, no benevolent aliens coming in peace, guiding us to a golden
> age. That's just fantasy. No, if aliens came here that means that
> they have colonized space -- not planets but space itself -- and
> roam the cosmos in search of resources to allow them to survive
> and even to grow.
> 
> COLLECTIVE STUPIDITY
> 
> We look at insect intelligence where the individuals possess only
> the most basic intelligence yet collectively they build complex
> structures... our aliens would be the opposite. They would be
> intelligent, civilized beings, perhaps far beyond us in intelligence
> and certainly beyond us in knowledge, yet collectively behaving as
> an infectious bacteria or even a virus.
> 
> Think about it.

You know, I'm brilliant. I'm so brilliant, in fact, that I sometimes
find myself wishing that I could be me.




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