The E.T.s are Coming! The E.T.s are Coming!
Whatever could interstellar or inter-dimensional beings want?
Hypothesis have been made since about the date we humans first discovered nuclear fission. There were science fiction tales sensationalizing the nature and appearance of off-world creatures who come to earth to conquer us, enslave us and exploit our natural resources.
So now the dominant theory is they are travelers from some distant planet. The Big Question is why would any species of beings muster the resources and invest their time coming to our speck of dust in the vast universe?
In the 1950s and 60s they were monsters here to eat our brains, fornicate with women, make zombies of us, and turn us into slave labor. How odd it is they wanted to do to us exactly what we do to each other on a daily basis.
Not too much later we speculated they want our resources. Gold and diamonds were common lusts they had. Our water. They wanted our water. Our land. They needed a new place to live and thrive.
Even today with our 8 billion people vast expanses of land is uninhabited. If they could travel interstellar space surely they could comfortably live in the interior of Australia or the Saharan Desert. If they preferred cold, there is Greenland and the northern latitudes of Canada and Russia. Only if they behave like us would we need to be concerned with how they treated our planet.
They would have traveled for generations in their spaceships maintaining a perfect ecological balance and environment. Why would they suddenly despoil the earth when they got here?
If they needed water our planet is not a great exploitable source. Comets and asteroids are composed of far more water than here on earth. Some of the moons of our neighboring planets have plenty of water and no one to complain about them taking it.
Humans make for a poor source of manual labor. We are high maintenance and prone to resistance. Almost every high-tech and industrial process is easier handled with robotic machines. We are seeing the loss of labor requirements in every field of endeavor.
Humans are not very good food sources. Pound for pound we are far too lean for industrial level meat production. Pigs, cows and chickens produce far more protein than do people. Furthermore the livestock doesn’t complain or mount resistance. The procreate quickly and mature fast. Birth to mouth in a year or less. A good human it’s 15 to 20 years.
Scientific exploration of our gnome is not really necessary. Why abduct an adult to probe the butt and drill into it eyes? We find non-invasive non-destructive means of exploration with MRI, CAT, and other technological devices.
If they need our DNA they could rob a sperm bank or grab some frozen embryos from a fertility clinic. No need to abduct women and men. If they can genetically engineer an entire hybrid species bovine gestation would be a cakewalk.
Now we are getting down to the last reason for visiting. Trade. They could exchange their resources for ours. What could they have brought with them we could use in exchange for something we have that they don’t. My supposition is: nothing. They could get anything we have for free if they scanned our Solar System and harvested/mined unclaimed sources.
My concerns are that arriving aliens behave just like us. Sloppy careless exploitive authoritarians who take take take and leave their pollution behind. Mostly I am concerned they might be deeply devoted to a deity who demands everyone praise his name or be killed. There would be no negotiating with that sort of thing. They would ravish and destroy with no end in sight. We would be in a state of eternal war or submission.
