Kinda sad for the people, who were excited :o
Not really. Once they join the federation there’s sex past the red tape.
But now they wont join the federation :(
Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…
Hasnt that always been obvious? Thats how humans have handled every single interaction with other species/cultures so how could they imagine any different outcome?
“We’ll take your women to bare our children”
“The volunteers are lining up already”
Im waiting for the time when aliens enslave us under worst conditions and 90% of humanity will be better off than before.
Alien: “We will vaporize your entire species!”
Me: “It’s about damn time.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
