[cripplecreek]

Resistance will be utterly futile, if they are hostile.

If they come and kill us all immediately yes but the longer we survive the harder it becomes to eliminate us and the more formidable we become.

We're an incredibly intelligent and resourceful species. We're capable of thinking many centuries beyond or technical abilities. If an alien piece of tech were to fall into our hands, it may give us a thousand year leap in a direction the aliens aren't even capable of conceiving.

We know how to produce antimatter but don't know how to produce it in quantities needed to make it useful. We know what it takes to start and maintain a fusion reaction but we can't produce the pressures needed outside the core of a star. Finding the keys to those puzzles would advance us by a thousand years easily.

That said, I doubt that if there are intelligent aliens out there, they would have any interest in us. Aside from biological proteins, there's nothing on earth that can't be found in vast abundance all throughout the universe.

[no-to-illegals]

unless water is in shorter supply than thought ...?

[cuban leaf]

If they come and kill us all immediately yes but the longer we survive the harder it becomes to eliminate us and the more formidable we become.

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In science fiction movies, yes. But the advancement in technology that a race would develop AFTER attaining the ability to access earth from many light years away would make us utterly helpless in every way imaginable. There was actually a recent sci-fi movie that touched on that. the one guy that survives, does so only in a sort of helpless way.

In all seriousness, I use as a simple example of the modern US military against old babylon. And don’t think there wouldn’t be something like a transmitter and cyborg implants on every alien making earth humans, even if the aliens are “human”, utterly distinguishable in a fraction of a second - at every instant of the day.

BTW, this technology would be developed to the point that television is developed today compared to the first televisions in the late 1920’s. Far more, actually.

[cuban leaf]

Finding the keys to those puzzles would advance us by a thousand years easily.

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The problem is that that is who we would be up against.

However, I don’t agree with the “thousand years” idea. The reason is that I believe there is a hard stop, and it is less than a century off. This “hard stop” is where we either stop being human or we wipe ourselves out.

But I agree that I doubt anybody would care for the reasons you state plus many more.

Well, God cares. And that is the reality beyond our speculation. :-)