Ok who Agrees with me about alien invasions?

Question

I believe that extra terrestrials have no need or want to invade Earth.
1. Its not profitable. Its far to expensive to transport a huge army from their distant planet to come and invade Earth.
2. They cant eat us, or use our organic material in any way. This is because their biology will be far different from our own.
3. Aliens who kill off all life forms on our planet will have to terraform the planet to suit their own needs. This is pointless though, because they could just terraform planets in their own solar system.
4. They wont use us as slaves, because if they have the technology to reach our planet, they must have access to an inexpensive, unexhaustable form of energy.
What do you think?

Answer 1

Bravo! I am now convinced that ET will never have any reason to visit us, and therefore all the UFO crazies can put to rest their weird theories.

Answer 2

Aliens can't possibly invade my friend. Why? We are the only intellegent life.

For instance, there is no air or anything on mercury. On venus, you would have to survive temperatures ayt about 900F and pressures 90x greater than on earth. Mars, We have completely found no intelectual life. Jupitur, its a cloud of gas like saturn, Uranus, And Neptune. So, if where was life, it would be unlike weve ever seen. Pluto has an atmosphere frozen on the ground almost all of its over 200 year orbit.

Outside the solar system, we have no found any planets that are gas giants fo0r about 9000 lightyears, were we hsave found 1 icy earth. Otherwise, the only out of solar system planets we found are "hot jupiturs," that is, a planet over 2x the size of jupitur with an average temp. of 1300F.

We might find some blimp-like and gliding creatures within the coulds of a gas giant, some thing skating on the ice, or bacteria on certain planets, but no intellegent life for almost forever.

Answer 3

If I were eleven years old, maybe ten, I might've given you the benefit of the doubt and agreed with you. Not a shot at you personally but a lot of people know this to be implausible and proveable.

It's easier to say the world is flat and you'll fall off the edge because it appears to be evidenced as such. Evidence to the contrary is available. Same with this type of thing.

How is it so many of you out there propound this type of stuff? Anything like flying saucers and all that is a lot more indicative of human technological development than anything else.
I'd like to say disingenuous, but that's a pretty word. Dishonest is more explicit.

But, at the same time, there are people who get so caught up in winning an argument, that they forget the question may be something that cannot be substantiated and get absorbed with answering same.

The only thing that would make me think is largely what's already in place. The world is filled with 'governemnts'. These in turn are a treasure trove of unscrupulous individuals.

Who cater to vast sectors of unscrupulous individuals for political favor. These individuals are anything but bright. Or truthful.

These individuals have first access to exotic technologies with, you guessed it, put to unscrupulous ends. Isn't that a little closer to the facts than an unpalatable paperback fantasy?

Answer 4

1. With the technology they have they may not need an army - perhaps one small probe with an extrememly powerful weapon. We cannot guess how much it might cost a civilization that has conquered interstellar space - for them the cost may be insignificant.
2. Their biology may be very similar to ours. In fact, as far as we know, since this is the only inhabited planet we know of (Earth) it is reasonable to say they may be very much like us.
3. Terraforming a dead planet like Mars is extremely difficult, and if their biology is similar to ours then Earth is ideal.
4. Your 4th point contradicts your 1st point. Ready available slaves will always be cheaper than those you have to transport/build on your own.

Answer 5

I don't think it will be an invasion, as much as it will be an observation, that is, if the observation hasn't been going on for a great length of time already.

If they interact (it won't be in the physical sense either), it will likely be for some particular interest that has nothing to do with taking over our planet, yet, will have more to do with helping us along. This will only happen when we have arrived at a certain technological level, and, we're not nearly there yet. :)

Answer 6

#2. It cannot be established at this point that their biology would be so different that they couldn't use our organic material...including our vast oceans.

OR...it might roving space gangs, out for a little target practice or vandalism...
OR a species that views our society as an eventual threat, either through decease, or because of our violent nature...
OR...a species afraid we might infiltrate their society with our mindless TV programming, in which case they would be justified turning our planet into a charcoal briquette.

Answer 7

I am in total agreement with you.

You must have read some Asimov and Heinlien though. LOL

Answer 8

I think perhaps you should take this question to a science fiction section.

Answer 9

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Answer 10

I think ET is gonna come back with vengeance.