Im waiting for the time when aliens enslave us under worst conditions and 90% of humanity will be better off than before.
“We’ll take your women to bare our children”
“The volunteers are lining up already”
You know what, this makes a good point. The only people who will be truly more fucked then they are right now when the alien apocalypse comes is the 1% because now they are just a bunch of powerless slaves
Basically the plot of 3 Body Problem
I’ve only read the first book and wow it was dumb. I felt duped.
A civilization capable of building colony ships that can reach 1% speed of light and proton sized supercomputers were just sitting around waiting for a signal? Why haven’t these mofos built those ships already to reach a nearest star already? Just park those ships in Goldilocks’ zone and then start searching for other suitable planet to colonize or terraform.
Not to mention life on their planet gets wiped out constantly and yet intelligent life capable of spaceflight evolved there? Sorry, can’t buy it at all.
Just a jenga of unbelievable premises.
Agreed 100%. Be thankful you didn’t read the 2nd book. So ridiculously silly and predictable. To the point of absurdity.
I love sci-fi. Cool unique ideas, terrible execution. These books are so overrated.
Real talk. Would aliens even want our natural resources? Like they could travel the cosmos. Our planet is made up of elements that are already available to them before they get here.
Like our planet doesn’t have anything special when it comes to resources.
It has resource extracting infrastructure already! Plus free labor! (A rare resource in the cosmos)
Keep in mind that they have near limitless energy if they are able to travel here.
It’s like asking ants to help my excavator dig a hole.
It’s got delicious CEO’s
What if they need water?
Drain our oceans and fuck up our ecosystems and weather balance.
The ocean is earths heatsink. Imagen extreme temperature changes across the planet. All life as we know it could end.
For fun I asked AI…
what are the consequenses of aliens stealing half of our ocean water?
Oh, what a fascinating (and somewhat alarming) scenario! Let’s imagine it, shall we?
Ecological Impact:
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Marine Life: If half of our ocean water vanished, marine ecosystems would be devastated. Many species of fish, coral, and other marine life would struggle to survive in the drastically altered environment. The reduction in available water would likely cause mass extinctions.
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Weather Patterns: The oceans play a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate. With significantly less water, we would see dramatic changes in weather patterns. Areas that depend on the ocean for moisture might experience severe droughts, while others could face unpredictable storms.
Human Impact:
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Food Supply: Many communities around the world rely on the ocean for their primary food source. The loss of half the ocean would lead to a sharp decline in fish and other seafood, causing food shortages and affecting the global food supply chain.
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Economic Impact: Industries such as fishing, tourism, and shipping would face catastrophic losses. Coastal communities that depend on these industries would suffer economically.
Environmental Impact:
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Sea Level: If aliens took half of the ocean water away, sea levels would drop drastically. While this might seem like a good thing for areas currently threatened by rising sea levels, it would expose vast areas of the seabed, creating new environmental challenges.
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Temperature Regulation: Oceans act as a giant heat sink, absorbing and distributing heat around the planet. Without this balance, we could see more extreme temperature fluctuations and accelerated climate change.
Global Panic:
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Geopolitical Tensions: Countries might blame one another for not preventing the alien intervention, leading to international conflicts.
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Technological and Scientific Response: There would be a global race to develop technologies to either recover the lost water or adapt to the new reality.
In summary, if aliens stole half of our ocean water, the consequences would be catastrophic, impacting every aspect of life on Earth. Now, let’s hope this remains in the realm of science fiction! 😊 What sparked your curiosity about this scenario?
Water is nothing but 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen. They bond fairly easily at room temp. While yes, it would be faster to just suck up water from our oceans, it’s extremely more energy intensive to travel to our part of the milky way. They could literally hit up a hydrogen intense moon/planet and another oxygen one and just make it themselves with the little energy it needs for it to bond.
I think the main difference between our planet and others like ours that would be more rare is life. Being the only sentient planet that we know of makes us more special.
So potentially they are just abducting us to probe our butts.
With any luck it would be Alien archeologists that want to observe the rare primitivities and not intervene.
The prime directive.
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The only thing I can think that would be unique is the life on this planet and the way it’s adapted and formed. We’d likely just be studied.
That is until they find out about the seven dragonballs.
So basically we are a natural resource.
More like a nature preserve. They’d probably be ecstatic about national parks like Yellowstone and Sarangeti