Originally Posted by Hitch
OTOH, sort of like that movie (the one that I can't remember, with the guy at the beginning saying that giant friendly aliens weren't going to descend from the heavens with loving hearts, or some stuff like that), it's more likely that any civilization THAT far advanced of ours would a) not find us all that interesting and b) be more likely to simply conquer, take resources worth having, and move on or stay as the colonizers.
It's not like our own world's history isn't replete with plenty of examples of precisely this. When technology is advanced enough to look like magic to those less technologically-advanced, the results are fairly predictable. Hell, maybe they'd keep us as pets!
Hitch
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