Not all planets are the same, even within our solar system. Although it’s hard to think a space travelling species would come all the way to Earth for them. On the other hand Earth could provide a comfortable home base from where they could mine minerals, metals and harvest hydrocarbons. It’s easier to mine on Earth than on an asteroid.
If you look at where we are on the milky way, we are pretty far from all the other clusters. Like they gotta REALLY want something here they can’t find elsewhere. Maybe life is what they want and maybe we are the natural resource that other planets don’t have.
Judging by how things have been going, it would probably be something stupid like fossil “fuels” having unique valuable properties as a high tech material, but then the aliens arrive and say “you fucking lit it all on fire?!?!?”
Not all planets are the same, even within our solar system. Although it’s hard to think a space travelling species would come all the way to Earth for them. On the other hand Earth could provide a comfortable home base from where they could mine minerals, metals and harvest hydrocarbons. It’s easier to mine on Earth than on an asteroid.
If you look at where we are on the milky way, we are pretty far from all the other clusters. Like they gotta REALLY want something here they can’t find elsewhere. Maybe life is what they want and maybe we are the natural resource that other planets don’t have.
Judging by how things have been going, it would probably be something stupid like fossil “fuels” having unique valuable properties as a high tech material, but then the aliens arrive and say “you fucking lit it all on fire?!?!?”
I guess fossil fuel would be unique to our planet.