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I wonder if we would even have this conversation prior to 2017. There are sociological impacts that we should be discussing about aliens, but I suspect it isn’t going to impact economics as much as people imagine. People still need to eat; we need to move food. Perhaps society becoming less materialistic is idealistic thinking, but we could be smarter in distributing and decreasing ‘built in obsolescence,’ and maybe compatibility between all things made? In 2021, an article wonders if just the mere presence of aliens on Earth would be a threat to our biome. Scientists Warn of “Alien” Invasions and the Need for Planetary Biosecurity.
What? They want aliens to have passports?
You might think if aliens can come all this way, they’d be mindful of biological hazards, to themselves and others. That’s just bio-decency. If their biome can kill us, ours can kill them. War of the Worlds. Earth biology has had a pretty good run, and every niche seems to have something living in it. One might argue life on Earth seems more threated by human activity than aliens.
When you consider all the life like things found in space, like asteroids with amino acids on it, even rocks from Mars that could have had life on it, can anyone truly protect a planet short of planetary shield?
