alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
The ones who like to see people suffer slowly in a meaningful way for their alien society?
While We Wait: Part 4
- Thread starter Thlayli
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~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
I have mentioned that you people freak me out, right? Some of the conversations that occur in these places is enough to have anyone committed.
Symphony D.
Deity
The opinions of other kitchenware implements have been duly noted.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
I see you speed edited your grammar mistake. 
Daft, I can't really seem to find any reports of your UFO on news sites around here....
Daft, I can't really seem to find any reports of your UFO on news sites around here....
Shadowbound
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Daft, I can't really seem to find any reports of your UFO on news sites around here....
We're efficient at preventing public panic.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
I'm guessing the perceived rice crisis along with the bird flu fear a few years ago never existed eh?
Or was I the only one who noticed the perceived rice crisis because I eat rice?
Or was I the only one who noticed the perceived rice crisis because I eat rice?
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
What kind of ******** alien invaders would use manual slave labor? The same kind that use Mac OS X?
Why not? They might not want to use their equipment when ours can do the job needed.
Symphony D.
Deity
Lets see:
1) Risk of disease.
2) Risk of revolt.
3) Maintenance and logistics costs.
4) Management and overhead costs.
5) Control and suppression costs.
6) Mentality differences.
7) Equipment compatibility issues.
8) Energy inefficiency of slavery.
9) General inefficiency of slavery.
I can go on all day. Slavery is pretty much about the most inefficient and ******** method of getting labor ever. It only makes sense when you need lots of unskilled labor and have a large, compliant population base. If you can cross the stars, you can (and should) be using robots--they don't complain, they're less likely to revolt (even under a bunch of wacky AIs), they don't need to eat, sleep, or breed, they fix easy, they don't talk back, ad infinitum.
Unless our potential invaders are stupid, they will either mostly leave us alone, or exterminate us. Some middle option is pointlessly stupid and inefficient, particularly for somebody who's that technologically advanced. If they're so dumb as to take a middle option, our victory is inevitable.
One of the few strengths humanity has as a species in the long-run is that we're about as aggressive and belligerent as a group reasonably can be without having wiped itself out at the first possible instance (we've gone through five, for the record). There's no point in keeping something like us around as menial labor. Cannon fodder, maybe.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Who says aliens are far enough ahead of us that it will make a huge difference?
foolish icarus
Shipwreck
Elaborate?
Chandrasekhar
Determined
If they can cross the kinds of distances required to get to us, they are.
Dreadnought
Deity
Do you think aliens would keep as alive to be used as a sort of auxiliary force for their army?
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Says someone who thinks they have to travel long distances. They could easily have stumbled across a wormhole technology and be relatively equal to us in other ways.
Symphony D.
Deity
I'm glad you've decided to lend your years of experience as a cutting-edge theoretical physicist to this discussion.
1962, 1979, 1983, 1983, 1995.
Humans would make great soldiers if you tricked them into thinking they were fighting for their own good. I mean hell, its what our own species does, it'd work marvelously for some other species.
flyingchicken
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You don't need to be a cutting edge theoretical physicist to push a cart and move a switch. Absolutely certainly without doubt I'm sure it is postulated it cannot be doubted that it is truth as a matter of fact being able to push a cart and move a switch will make you overqualified to be a cutting edge theoretical physicist.
On slavery: The aliens might be a bunch of bored thrill-seekers, crossing galaxies looking for fun things to do. They might be drinking and dining in one planet and enslaving sentient species in the next.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
You don't need a fancy degree to say something that is possible.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
@Symphony, I'm amazed you still need to mention that. I've seen you post the same thing about WWIII and how close we came to war many times and I'm surprised that people still haven't got that 
Perhaps bolding would help?
Perhaps bolding would help?
Symphony D.
Deity
Actually, you do. Hey, maybe they might discover magical interstellar unicorns that love rocking out to Ride of the Valkyries and oppressing primate-analogs while at our level of advancement! That's possible too!
