"Ask the Inca how their encounters with 'strangers from another world' went."
The aliens came with cardigans and popped collars. |
"It's nature, when there is abundance you stay, when there isn't you search for it at any cost"
Advancements only happen out of necessity. The majority of our technology comes at a time when we critically need it. Man discovered fire right before the ice age, we developed the wheel when we were breaking our backs, ramps when we couldn't go any higher, steam engines when we couldn't go any faster, penicillin when we were getting too sick, phones when the telegram took to long, computers when we couldn't calculate, guns when we were getting killed by swords, bombs when we were getting killed by guns, and so on. Our greatest achievements come from being pushed into a corner and forcing ourselves to figure out the answer. So what does that have to do with aliens visiting our planet? All you have to do is continue the previous train of thought and you'll see. Alright I'll do it for you.
We are currently at the stage of using non-renewable resources, banks are crippling the masses, and the Earth is becoming more polluted. We'll eventually fix the bank system or (get rid of it), create clean renewable fuel and fix the Earth. It'll be more hospitable, people will live longer, more people will be born, robots will help with all these wonderful things. Then people will want more things and more robots to do work, this will need more resources and raw materials, we'll start to pollute the Earth again, and the cycle repeats. Two generations later and its better again, two more and it's bad but with each generation we solve the problems created by the latter but only when we have to, just like the buffalo who won't leave until there is no food. Do this two more times and you're eventually going to hit a point of no return. At this point we'll have to make a decision the same way the King of Spain had to make a decision in 1490.
If an alien species is out this far from home it's because someone sent them here. The only reason a civilization would invest this much effort to conquer interstellar travel is for one reason and that is to find more resources. Remember it's a two way street, they don't know what's on the other side of the galaxy any more than we do, so sending a craft to explore this far is a hail mary and you don't throw a hail mary when you're up 50 points, you do it when you have no choice. It's nature, when there is abundance you stay, when there isn't you search for it at any cost cause the alternative is not being alive.
Columbus may have been a discoverer but the purpose of his voyage was to find a better way to India to make more money, to build a bigger empire -it was for progress because the old way was obsolete.
When they got to the Americas they encountered the Inca and what did they do? Slaughtered them - took the resources, sent a ship back to Spain with a note that said "Hey bring the rest of the ships, theres tons of gold and corn here."
Part 2 is next week! If we live to see next week.
Part two will cover what happened in their world that made them come here. What would you do if you were in charge of their world?
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