From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Think of the classic concept of "Aliens" -- the SciFi Martians,   
   perhaps -- those aliens couldn't exist. We'd have nothing   
   of ours that they'd want.   
      
   Information? Data? I suppose that's possible. But it's ridiculous   
   to think of aliens crossing the vastness of space for our natural   
   resources.   
      
   Imagine the cost, even in just resources, to travel all the way   
   here, collect & store whatever resources you were in need of,   
   then transporting them back to your home planet... the   
   investment would represent orders of magnitude more than the   
   return. Unless...   
      
   Unless you saw "Independence Day."   
      
   This is a scenario that works, I'm afraid, perhaps the only   
   scenario that works.   
      
   To colonize Mars or even our moon people would have to be   
   effectively isolated from their environment. They'd need to   
   live in a bubble, shielded from their world and it's atmosphere.   
      
   So why bother with Mars or the moon? Just build that bubble that   
   the colony needs to live in, slap a couple of engines to it and   
   you have a space colony.   
      
   THAT is a formula that works. And THOSE are aliens that might want   
   our resources.   
      
   So, no benevolent aliens coming in peace, guiding us to a golden   
   age. That's just fantasy. No, if aliens came here that means that   
   they have colonized space -- not planets but space itself -- and   
   roam the cosmos in search of resources to allow them to survive   
   and even to grow.   
      
   COLLECTIVE STUPIDITY   
      
   We look at insect intelligence where the individuals possess only   
   the most basic intelligence yet collectively they build complex   
   structures... our aliens would be the opposite. They would be   
   intelligent, civilized beings, perhaps far beyond us in intelligence   
   and certainly beyond us in knowledge, yet collectively behaving as   
   an infectious bacteria or even a virus.   
      
   Think about it.   
      
      
      
      
      
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