Whistle blower says non-human bodies recovered from crash

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A JPL contest found that it would take a species about 90 million years to colonize all or most of the Milky Way via generation ships. The Milky Way is somewhere between 1.5 billion years and 13.8 billion years, so alien races have had the time to do so.

Here's a video of the third place winners in the contest, who were narrowly focused on the 100,000 worlds most likely to be friendly to life:


It essentially would work like compound interest, with even the slow process of creating and sending out generation ships speeding up over time as each source world creating several new colonies, each of which in turn creates multiple generation ships over time.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would say that if one has the tech to live in space there is a sufficiency of material in the Oort clouds of solar systems to meet one material need without bothering with the bottoms of gravity wells.

You wouldn't need to spend any energy on ice makers or freezers in the mess halls, for one thing.

 

[GreyLord]

Why? If they are truly alien, we can't know what they might do. And if they are psychologically like us, they wouldn't necessarily think of us as "lesser" beings.

If aliens can travel between stars or dimensions, there is nothing our little rock can offer them that they can't get in more abundance elsewhere -- except culture. Except us. They aren't going to strip mine our planet or enslave us. There's no motivation to do so for an advanced species. Their only possible interest in us is what we are -- moderately smart monkeys that likely represent their own ancient history in some way.

Depends on whether they need oxygen or not...or even worse...breath an air that is very similar or exactly like our Air.

Not a lot of land around where you can stand outside and do things without a spacesuit on. Anyplace which offers someplace like that is a place you might want to put down roots.

Land is everything. This is why the natives of America were treated so ruthlessly as colonizers took their lands from them...many times violently.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I figured it out, the only unique resource on Earth is... Our novelty! These are space tourists who crash landed due to faulty equipment, just like what happens here on Earth!

 

[Reynard]

Depends on whether they need oxygen or not...or even worse...breath an air that is very similar or exactly like our Air.

Not a lot of land around where you can stand outside and do things without a spacesuit on. Anyplace which offers someplace like that is a place you might want to put down roots.

Land is everything. This is why the natives of America were treated so ruthlessly as colonizers took their lands from them...many times violently.

You don't think a species capable of interstellar travel can engineer the air they need to breath? If not it might make interstellar travel a bit difficult.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I figured it out, the only unique resource on Earth is... Our novelty! These are space tourists who crash landed due to faulty equipment, just like what happens here on Earth!

DON'T MISS: THE GALAXY'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF KARDASHIANS!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

DON'T MISS: THE GALAXY'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF KARDASHIANS!

 

[CleverNickName]

What if the crashed aliens are the billionare tourists from another galaxy?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

What if the crashed aliens are the billionare tourists from another galaxy?

Then Tim Curry was wrong about space not being corrupted by capitalism.

 

[Ryujin]

There's also the possibility presented in the "Berserker" series by Saberhagen, or in the "Babylon 5" episode "A Day in the Strife." An alien species either creates a weapon to destroy their immediate enemies and it gets loose, or they can't stomach the idea of other life and send out weapons to destroy any possible competitors. It's one of the possible answers to the Fermi Paradox.