Sorry but you lost me at the first paragraph.
Sharing of territory happens all the time in the animal kingdom where different species don’t have the same food source whether it’s a mixed troupe of monkeys or grazers mucking around together on the veldt. Mutualism often happens when they share sleeping spaces but even then it’s not certain.
If aliens arrive en masse they might conceivably need living space, of which there is plenty spare, but given the fact that they’ve just travelled who knows how many light years in self-sufficient habitats it seems far more like to me that they wouldn’t need to compete with us for anything at all. The trouble with humans is that we assume any intelligent species must be as horrifically shitty to fellow creats as we are ourselves. It’s analogous to the exoplaanet search: we only have one example of (intelligent) life so we assume all life must follow the same evolutionary path.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 19:09,
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And sometimes they even fuck!
www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/15/sex-between-snow-monkeys-and-sika-deer-may-be-new-behavioural-tradition
I can't wait until I get humped by an alien. Unless it looks like Gilbert.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 19:16,
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That's fine then
so long as they aren't interested in energy, living space, water or volatile organics we'll get on like a fucking house on fire.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 19:57,
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What if it turns out they are highly evolved dung beetles and human excrement turns out to be the alien equivalent of foie gras?
We'll be rolling in space diamonds, I tell thee.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 20:16,
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So how have they coped before actually finding for the first time...
I'm guessing energy & water. Oh yes, and your sweeet tassssty soulsssss are more their beans on toast.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 22:02,
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 21 Mar 2018, 8:35,
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Oh god, I didn't think about that.
I'm doomed!
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Wed 21 Mar 2018, 10:26,
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That’s exactly my point; all of those things are comparatively easy to find in space.
If aliens had already travelled here none of those things would be a problem for them. As I see it the only reason why aliens would come here is because they want to for one reason or another. They might conceivably come on some transgalactic jihad but I tend to agree with Carl Sagan in that any race that can advance far enough technologically to make the trip will have had a few millennia to breed out any lingering aggression.
The notion of aliens coming here for air/water/meat always makes me remember that jokey comment about things like Dyson spheres and ringworlds: if aliens are advanced enough to build such things they wouldn’t need them anyway.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 22:11,
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Mad assumption
If you have the drive to go out to the stars you will also have aggression.
Stick with Fermi.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 20 Mar 2018, 22:21,
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Rubbish. It's a long way to travel for a bit of a dust up.
They will be driven by their kinks. They will be exploring space looking for new things to fuck. They won't believe their luck when they find planet earth is populated by sentient monkeys that have dedicated 95% of the internet to wanking.
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