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Old 04-26-2010, 04:02 PM   #31
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I don't think that they'd be peaceful necessarily, so much as just disinterested. Why would they even bother with us, in any way, when a true spacefaring race would be able to get everything that they needed from gas giants and the Oort Cloud? Why even waste the resources to drop into a gravity well at all, if you don't need to?
The same reason humans climb Everest?
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The same reason humans climb Everest?
Jupiter is Everest. Earth is the local kiddie ski hill.
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I don't think many gas giants contain water, nor do they have any metals until you go thousands of miles down into them.
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I don't think many gas giants contain water, nor do they have any metals until you go thousands of miles down into them.
Asteroids for metals. Gas giants for methane, which is CH4, or mine the Ooort Cloud for methane ice/carbon dioxide. Solar, fission, and fusion for power. You never really need to make planet-fall.
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Asteroids for metals. Gas giants for methane, which is CH4, or mine the Ooort Cloud for methane ice. Solar, fission, and fusion for power. You never really need to make planet-fall.
Food and water?
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Food and water?
Synthesized. Hell, we can do it now with our current technology.
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Synthesized. Hell, we can do it now with our current technology.
You know it's not as good as wild food. I don't fish small wild trout vs large stock trout for no reason at all.
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You know it's not as good as wild food. I don't fish small wild trout vs large stock trout for no reason at all.
What are kids eating today and what sort of relation does it have to real food? That happened over a couple of generations. What would people be able to stomach after 10 generations in space?
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What are kids eating today and what sort of relation does it have to real food? That happened over a couple of generations. What would people be able to stomach after 10 generations in space?
That doesn't mean they don't want to indulge every now and then. A little wild human might be tasty.
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