If they could actually travel trillions of miles, they'd find slim pickin's, imho. We are ravaging ourselves!
I think the Explorers had definite goals besides their curiousity- spices, gold, slaves, territory, sea lanes, etc. You can have my ticket! :-) On May 31, 5:57 pm, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 19, 6:41 am, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I think that with nanotechnology we will be able to synthesize pretty > > much > > > anything we want from raw materials in the future. Assuming that any > > alien > > > race capable of traveling the trillions of miles to get here would have > > at > > > least the same level of technology my guess is that they wouldn't need > > > anything we'd have to offer. > > > Perhaps they would want the two things we can spare the least: > > ourselves as their 'food' and the REST of our planet's natural > > resources. After all, food and resources is exactly why WE'D be > > touring the galaxy. > > When I refer to resources I'm thinking about the 92 raw elements that > naturally occur in nature. Given those and advanced nano-assembly techniques > I think that literally anything can be replicated. > > Assuming that's the case, I'd think that an advanced alien civilization > would find better ways of feeding itself than to travel trillions upon > trillions of miles to ravage the Earth. > > As to why we'd be touring the galaxy, I think human curiosity would be a > major factor.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
