(08-24-2023, 12:17 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-24-2023, 10:05 AM)Sneakers Wrote: You're wrong.  You have absolutely no way of knowing the motives and intentions of potential alien life, or even the physical form in which such life might exist.

Their motives, intentions, and physical form are all irrelevant to my point.
My point is it is very very hard to get off of our planet, and any species that has mastered interstellar travel will likely come from a planet that is much much easier to launch large amounts of mass and energy off of.  At that point such species will be looking for places that are like their planet or better.  Not worse.  We might observe such a species trying to mine asteroids and comets in our solar system and convert them into colonies.  All the resources they would ever need are on those asteroids.  Maybe after a long period of exploiting our asteroids they might decide to give planetary colonization a try, but we would observe their asteroid activities first.

I would say "Quit while you're ahead" but that ship sailed with your first post.

So, the motives of these theoretical visitors coming to Earth are admittedly unknown to you, yet you still know what type of planet they're looking for?  That's amazing, how do you do it?  I could only assume their planet was one giant desert, and they wanted to live at the beach.  Or maybe it was just a bunch of teenage aliens out for an interstellar joyride in a stolen spaceship.  

P.S.  What resources does an alien lifeform (of unknown physical characteristics) require?  I couldn't find the info anywhere online.  Is there plenty of water on those asteroids?  I've heard they like swimming pools.

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