bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (06/27/85)
You bet they would come for slaves. Just because we think we are advanced morally past the desire for slaves, doesn't mean other races would follow the same track. Highly advanced technology can do much, but it never replaces personal service. (Of course, if you can make an android with a turing-test AI program then there is an argument that this is a living being and should not be enslaved, too) At any rate, until you have perfect AI, nothing can match a slave as the ultimate luxury. And with a cousin race they can even be used for sexual purposes. Slaves are cheap - they can produce enough to feed and house themselves and you can take all the rewards. Yes, they would come for slaves. As for water, no chance. Even if your own planet were somehow to "dry out", water is very common. If not, hydrogen is the most common and oxygen is plentiful too. And if you did have to leave your star system, you wouldn't come to Earth to drag up the liquid water from the bottom of a gravity well. There are whole asteroids and planetoids made of ice out there that you could easily steal. Why risk war to take it from Earth? -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304
tomk@ur-laser.uucp (Tom Kessler) (06/28/85)
Also if you take water from asteroids (in the form of ice) you don't
have to pay the penalty in energy for overcoming gravity. Heck why
not just tow a couple of "stroids" home.
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Rochester, New York 14623joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) (07/01/85)
For that matter why bother to haul grown slaves over
Interstellar distances. All you need is a tank of fertilized
ova and enough humans to raise the resulting children. Of
course, you have to assume that their biological sciences are
a little backward compared to their physics, or they would
just design the DNA for the slaves they wanted instead of
going to look for it, and you wouldn't have to put up with all
those human traits that tend to make us crummy slaves |->.
JoelJAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA (07/08/85)
From: peora!joel (Joel Upchurch)
For that matter why bother to haul grown slaves over
Interstellar distances. All you need is a tank of fertilized
ova and enough humans to raise the resulting children. Of
course, you have to assume that their biological sciences are
a little backward compared to their physics, or they would
just design the DNA for the slaves they wanted instead of
going to look for it, and you wouldn't have to put up with all
those human traits that tend to make us crummy slaves |->.
Joel