• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    “Oh hey, you guys have liquid water? We’ll take that!”

    “Well I guess we could trade you a few thousand liters…”

    “Trade? Liters? No, we’ll just take it. All of it.”

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      Water isn’t particularly hard to find, and the recipe for making liquid water out of solid water is dead simple

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      Biomass is just about the only thing you couldn’t find out in the asteroid belt, and there’s little reason a species from a different biosphere would want any of our biomass.

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        Alas, it turns out that human cerebrospinal fluid is heroin to their biology. We’re going to get farmed like opium poppies.

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          I wonder if they’ve heard of the benefits of free range organic farming

    • arthur@lemmy.zip
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      Any mineral that you can think of, easier to get in space, close to their home star than here.