Scientists warn that aliens may come to destroy us

[Grand Champ]

So what? What we gonna do? If they can travel through time and space we don't stand a chance anyway. This changes nothing... Only thing to worry about aka take advantages of is recession

[cupocity303]

6:59 to 7:42.

[-Kev-]

The questionis though, why would they destroy us? What would they gain?

Take our planet and sell it. Frieza did it all the time.

[squealpiggy]

A quote from the movie Contact I remembered to a similar question.

What do we gain from killing insects?

Well I'm not about to get in the car and drive fifty miles just to kill insects.

[Frogs!]

Well I'm not about to get in the car and drive fifty miles just to kill insects.

what if they have water?

[GOAT86]

what if they have water?

OMG, this is so green K.

[squealpiggy]

what if they have water?

Fucking grasshoppers.

[cupocity303]

Well I'm not about to get in the car and drive fifty miles just to kill insects.

No, maybe a deer or a moose?

[BigStereotype]

What a lot of nonsense. There's water everywhere!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#In_the_universe

It's a chemical composition of the first and third most abundant elements in the universe! Water is readily made as a side product of almost every exothermic reaction which means it's a certainty that if aliens needed water it would be a damn sight easier to synthesize it than it would be to travel across light-years of space to steal it from another life form!

I thought someone was going to say "resources" as though there are not thousands upon thousands of planets, planetoids and asteroids containing minerals and ores that are considerably closer than earth. But no, you said something even stupider!

Slow your roll man, I guess I was wrong. But there could still be reasons why they'd invade. Like...

And for fun, and because they can, and because they want to use their enemies as slaves or as hatcheries in which they implant their young... And I'm not even talking about mammals there.

[squealpiggy]

No, maybe a deer or a moose?

I've heard the big game theory but while there is definitely a precedent for people to travel large distances to hunt large dangerous animals, they don't tend to hunt them using their entire war machine. Hunters want to take home trophies, not conquer the land of the bears.