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Wait...say what now?...I was talking specifically about "intergalactic resource plundering"...Is that a thing?

I would presume that they would be using anti-matter, or some sort of ridiculous cold fusion to power everything. They would also have found the loophole in the laws of physics that we seem to be missing right now. If that was the case, what the hell would they need another planet for? In theory, anti matter would be limitless energy from a relatively small source. With that technology, do they need anything we have? They won't be looking for oil. If they want to study, they wouldn't need an army. Just a couple of them, and a few anal probes.

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Call on Buttsex Man!

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And what if they're coming here just to get some strange? I for one don't want those space pirates plundering my booty.

For all we know, their life spans, and concept of time could be completely different than ours. Maybe a good bachelor party weekend for them is going to a place like Earth, and spending 1000 Earth years violating the resident species. Then, on the way home, they brag about things like "Damn, I must have pounded a million Earthlings in the butt...so much fun!"

depends on their women..if they are over 8 feet tall the appropriate response would be: TAKE ME TO YOUR LADDER, I'LL SEE YOUR LEADER LATER!!!

Water in liquid form is pretty damn hard to come by as well. This planet has a lot of things going for it. Aliens could be like.

"Damn girl! You Fine! Are these humans treating you right? No? Zap!".

What if the aliens came and made a big CGI building and then they have a meteor go CROSSHH! and it, and it's all like CRAAWWWLL a-and motorcycles burst into flame while they jump over these helicopters, right?

I would welcome them with reese's pieces. I heard they like those.

I've always both feared and liked the idea that we're actually the most advanced.

Feared because we won't meet anyone else in my lifetime.

Liked because we would end up being the dominant galactic species.

All those thing are far far FAR more plentiful floating around in space in places that AREN'T at the bottom of a steep gravity well. The fact is that there is absolutely zero reason for trying to fight the Earth's gravity for them even if there was no humanity with which to contend. Much easier to simply scoop them up from asteroid belts, Oort clouds, and the clouds left behind by supernovae.

The only reasons an alien species would have for fighting humans would be things like:

1- Fun --like hunting (see Predator)

2- Xenophobia -- if something about their makeup made them unwilling to share the universe with another species. In this case, they'd simply nuke us out of existence from orbit and there would be no real fighting.

3- Prevention --If they decided that we were too dangerous and unstable to be permitted to become a threat in the future. Again nuke from orbit.

4- They want our biological resources for some reason, don't want to wait to develop from samples, and just come to take everything right now. Perhaps we taste really great!

5- Some weird religious or cultural issue. "They did not greet our x-ray transmission with a Xenon flare! How dare they!"