Water Hungry Aliens..... Counter Measure....

[Meredith]

With V and any other science fiction show where the aliens want to steal water I propose this.....

Attaching these signs to every satellite we launch may be costly but it can save our bacon when it comes to crazy water craving aliens....



What steps would you take to prevent crazy aliens from wanting minerals and elements on earth that are common as sin everywhere else in the Universe?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Somebody peed in the pool."

 

[Trent Roman]

I went ahead and salted most of it. Let's see 'em drink that.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Free Beer On Europa"

 

[Klaus]

meddling kids

"Free beer, free wi-fi, and hot green chicks on Europa!"

 

[Neroon]

But if we send them to Europa, the Monolith won't like it.

 

[Deckerd]

What happens if they turn Europa into the extreme sports / clubland / surfer's paradise of the solar system? What then? We'll have to pay an arm and a leg to get in and I bet the bouncers are utter bastards.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

But if we send them to Europa, the Monolith won't like it.

Screw the monolith! What's the monolith ever done for us? Oh...right...

 

[Meredith]

But if we send them to Europa, the Monolith won't like it.

Screw the monolith! What's the monolith ever done for us? Oh...right...

Better that they are the Monolith's problem instead of OUR problem. Let the two hyper advanced civs duke it out near Jupiter to spare us our extinction..... Maybe we will get luck and they will take each other out...

 

[FordSVT]

On topic, Meredith's absolutely correct though. Not just Europa, there is an enormous amount of water in the Oort cloud and it's not even constrained by planetary gravity wells.

Besides living beings like people and animals and our habitable environment, are there any physical resources available on Earth that would not be more readily available out in the solar system or anywhere else in the galaxy for that matter?

So yeah, I can buy aliens needing a place to live or people to eat, but not needing our water or minerals unless an integral part of their manufacturing process requires slave labour which would be odd for an interstellar civilization that could probably build automated systems cheaper.

 

[Samurai8472]

We're sending the aliens from "Signs" on a death trip.

 

[sojourner]

Swing away Merrill. Swing away.

 

[Broccoli]

Ah...now we have the plot of the next James Bond movie.

Quantum hoards the water of Europa. Meanwhile, James Bond stays home, because England doesn't give a shit.

 

[Christopher]

Besides living beings like people and animals and our habitable environment, are there any physical resources available on Earth that would not be more readily available out in the solar system or anywhere else in the galaxy for that matter?

All I can think of are certain types of gems and other minerals that need water and geological activity to form. Those might form on certain large, differentiated, icy asteroids or dwarf planets, but a large, water-bearing, tectonically active planet would be the best place to find them. But then, a civilization advanced enough to travel the stars could probably make its own gemstones, and it would require far less energy to do so than to mount an interstellar expedition for them.

As far as we know, there's nothing non-biological on Earth that couldn't be found elsewhere in the galaxy. Star systems form out of the residue of other star systems, so the basic ingredients of stars and planets and whatnot have been pretty well-mixed through the galactic disk. Even if there were something unique about the nebula that gave birth to Sol, our star would've been just one of dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands that formed from the same stellar nursery and would thus have basically the same constituents. But those stars would be scattered all over the galaxy by now, so if the aliens had a range limit on their travels, Earth might be the only available planet that had whatever they were looking for. But again, that's only in the unlikely event that there was anything unique about our birth nebula.

 

[Roshi]

We're sending the aliens from "Signs" on a death trip.

They're dumb enough to fall for it. Happened already once!