If they came to us it would not be for the resources on earth, there are plenty more in space easier to get. I think it would be curiosity. They would study us, and probably all life on the planet.
Hopefully with curiosity comes empathy and they uplift us.
Wood. Hard wood usable for building hasn’t evolved anywhere else in the known galaxy. Fine wooden furniture imported from Earth. The Amazon is being cut down and exported to alien worlds.
If they came to us it would not be for the resources on earth, there are plenty more in space easier to get. I think it would be curiosity. They would study us, and probably all life on the planet.
Hopefully with curiosity comes empathy and they uplift us.
Also could just be determined exterminators or want to diversify diet.
Exterminators could just throw a rock at 0.1c no need to land.
Diet though, reminds me of the Peter Jackson masterpiece, Bad Taste.
Perhaps they’re after the resources which aren’t so common elsewhere, like oxygen. Maybe they would turn Earth into an oxygen farm.
Wood. Hard wood usable for building hasn’t evolved anywhere else in the known galaxy. Fine wooden furniture imported from Earth. The Amazon is being cut down and exported to alien worlds.
Water is common out there, pretty simple to get oxygen.