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When ever one human culture fucked over another it was because they has something the invaders wanted.
Aliens haven't visited earth for the simple reason that if there are civs advanced enough to travel interstellar distances, something that is impossible with our current understanding of physics, there is nothing we naked apes have that they would want or need.
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Good point
The meddling usually doesn't happen from an entity the smaller group doesn't know about. The meddling might be done secretly, but the incentive to meddle was something everyone knew about
I guess I can wash this shower thought down now
Yep. Basically every alien invasion story is a retelling of human colonialism but replacing the less advanced people with Earth and the more advanced with Aliens.
There is nothing on earth, resource wise, that cannot be found in every star with a planetary system in the galaxy.
People always talk abour raw resouces but forget the other things. Like maybe they do it to watch the Drama.
Also story of babel tells us we can make space elevators if we can work together. Can't have that.
Could also be this is imperial "feral" world and need the conflict on going for recruits.
Another alternative was just free range biomass like in Jupiter ascending.
Relying on the bible for science info....
Do you think the world flooded as well?
With everything we currently know about material science, space elevators are impossible on earth.
The moon with 1/6th G Sure.
Mars with 1/3 G possible.
Earth at 1G sorry but no.
All the rest is thinking aliens are like humans or that SF has anything to do with actual science.
Babel is fugitive. We can reach the heavens if we work together.
More importantly is thinking aliens are like humans really an issue?
Are you talking about the christian heaven or actual space?
The answer for both, via a space elevator, is no.
Of you are talking about fiction? No.
If you are talking about reality? Yes.
Humans are a fluke of random evolution on one planet, that is all.
Why no for actual space? We actually are going, like right now.
So humans are fluke and aliens not fluke? If the great filter happened for us then maybe it filters out beings that are not like us. I mean unless you know an alien Any argument anyone can make is just limited by imagination.
We have not left earth's orbit in 50 years.
Voyager, the probes that have been travelling for 50 years are still less than 0.001% (1/10,000th) the distance to the nearest star.
Both are/will be but the chance of evolution taking the same path on two different biospheres is pretty much zero.
Yeah but that's not because we can't. Maybe "it's aliens"
Well I can't say you are right or wrong. No one can. Anything I say is purely hypothetical but winning the lotto is pretty much zero and people win.
at best they are studiying this primitive race and laughing at our dumb shenanigans