This is a common sci-fi trope, but it is woefully incorrect. The instant you master FTL travel, your resource requirements are solved. We could crack Enceladus for water in (almost) perpetuity. Ditto the asteroid belt for metals/rare earths, and that’s just our local system.https://twitter.com/metsfan/status/1174555478044528642 …
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More frontier sci-fi western, less resource wars sci-fi
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This is why they're here for cultural exports. Area 51 is a giant LAN cafe for aliens that like to play video games
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Attacking an inhabited planet for its resources is like deciding that instead of buying a new microwave during a sale you should drive five miles to lay siege to some rando's house until they surrender theirs to you.
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This is probably the best way of encapsulating the issue I’ve ever seen. Well fucking done.
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Europa has 2.5 times the water Earth does and there are asteroids made out of precious metals that have 1000's of times more metal than ever mined here on the planet. Aliens would not be interested in us unless the resource they need is biology aka biomass. Then were screwed.
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This is only true if the constraining resource on ftl is available in quantitaties that make widespread ftl exploration possible.
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Right, but if you don’t have enough resources to make widespread FTL travel possible, the last thing you’re going to do with your limited resources is travel somewhere someone else might kill you.
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I guess that still leaves the "Tyranid" style of invasion. Something so vast that it just chomps up EVERYTHING in its way, which just so happens to also include Earth.
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Right, but something like that leaves VERY evident tracks
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And that you don’t have to worry about escaping a gravity well with them
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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