On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Abrigon Gusiq wrote:
In TV/Movie/Books and like, what aliens have come in world ships,
and their end result mission was?
Mars Attacks! -- Martians just want to have fun destroying things
Childhood's End -- Help guide humanity through the next step in
evolution
The Day the Earth Stood Still -- Stop the wars
To Serve Man -- Food supply (I'm referring to the original Damon
Knight story, although it has also been done by Twilight Zone and
others)
Alien Nation -- Crashed, some want to enslave mankind others just want
a place they can live
I Married a Monster from Outer Space -- Repopulate their own world
Many of these would be some pretty pitiful world ships.
A world ship is for tasks that require an entire civilization to support
or accomplish in a place where you can't count on finding one suitable
to your needs, implying there is also a time frame measured in some
modest number of generations. Everything else is either less work than
building and loading the world ship, or less rewarding and more trouble
than adapting the civilization to prepetual ship life, with building and
loading a new world ship at the upper bound.
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