> or immediately destroy us because we're a potential threat. if they've paid enough attention to evaluate us as a threat, they've paid enough attention to notice that we have niggers and how we treat them. we will never come close to being 0.0001% threat as long as we have niggers, and that would be immediately apparent to them. they would probably just sit there and watch, record absolutely everything we do, and just wait until we go extinct so they can categorize the progression of intelligent life from civilization to extinction.  > there's nothing of value on earth that a spacfaring race couldn't find elsewhere. in terms of physical resources, yes. their probes would never voluntarily enter our crushing gravity and thick atmosphere for resources that can be effortlessly extracted from an asteroid, moon, or planetesimal, but they would find valuable information here that they could spend hundreds of millions of years gathering. and if possible, 3d print their biological forms to give themselves a new homeworld, using earth-based dna to adapt to our environment.
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