tkr4lf wrote:Water. Water would be a valuable resource they could need that isn't found many other places in the universe (that we know of).
Hydrogen is plentiful in the universe.
army of nobunaga wrote:Tereform... well..... shit..... Unless you can make material from pure energy and base element like silicon or hydrogen and you have a technology for near unlimited energy, then this is impossible.
We're talking about aliens that have advanced technology, that are capable of traveling hundreds of light years at least just to go visit a planet with life...
army of nobunaga wrote:Shear numbers tell me and most others that other planets ... many others... have a civilization.
Have you heard of the Drake Equation? It's a formula for calculating how many civilizations are probably in the universe at any given time. Current estimates give the amount of civilizations in our galaxy around 200, with 2 of them trying to contact other civilizations at any given time.
army of nobunaga wrote:So you are willing to state that those civilizations that are at least 100 years (how far AT LEAST we are) ahead of us in technology will come in peace and not change us?
Possibly
army of nobunaga wrote:t is shear x-file'ish and pop culture greenie hippie ish to expect a civilization to visit us (and they will) and not consider us lobster or crayfish.
We look nothing like lobsters. Even if they are more advanced than us, they can still discern that we're a sentient lifeform...
If we talk about when the europeans first came to america, they slaughtered the natives and so on... but now, we are moving further away from that kind of thought, every generation is less racist than the previous one, by average... most civilized people today already find it incredible that people could consider other people to be inferior just because they are different.
So, if we consider that the aliens would be way more advanced, they would likely have also developed socially, enough to not have xenophobia to cloud their judgement.
Think of it this way: if we discovered aliens on some other planet, we would be likely to want to study them, and possibly have some kind of relations with them... only the most rabid among humans would instantly think "we need to conquer/subdue them" without knowing anything about them... so why would the aliens be different in that respect?