Quote (juliusjuice @ May 1 2010 04:13am)
theres a pretty big difference here. the more civilised a culture the less likely they are to use slaves, i think the risk is lower than he makes it out to be. also if they have the ability to cross the many light years in between us they wouldnt have a use for human slaves/pets whatever.
they wouldn't be interested in us but rather the raw materials on our planet and i doubt we would willing let them ravage our planet so they would find it easier to annihilate us to plunder the earth,
but it honestly would be easier for them to just mine the vast amounts of asteroid fields and comets cause they can just bring them into the ship for processing no need to dig or drill fighting gravity on a planet, less work to mine in space
only real reason is if they wanted to take over the planet and live on ir instead of there ships