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Forget your fears: Why high tech aliens don't need our resources.
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Say, you want to produce new oxygen after an accident or you spare parts but the required type of matter isn't available. Either you can transform matter or you die. | Say, you want to produce new oxygen after an accident or you spare parts but the required type of matter isn't available. Either you can transform matter or you die. | ||
If any tech is insufficient | '''If any tech is insufficient, the interstellar space trip will fail. At the point where an alien is able to travel in person to planet Earth its society has mastered all the required technologies - but that also means they don't need our resources.''' They just could go anywhere, terraform any dead planet and avoid the hostile contact with humans. '''They will be able to utilize their home star. Energy problems solved. They are able to perform stellar plasma mining. All resource problems solved.''' | ||
The only logical reason such capable species would seek the contact with others is knowledge acquisition, may it be cultural or scientific. A predator behavior - that denies the probable ethics necessary to collaborate and therefore being able to develop all the technologies and reach other worlds - should be a statistical anomaly or at least very unlikely. | The only logical reason such capable species would seek the contact with others is knowledge acquisition, may it be cultural or scientific. A predator behavior - that denies the probable ethics necessary to collaborate and therefore being able to develop all the technologies and reach other worlds - should be a statistical anomaly or at least very unlikely. | ||