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[alway]

high hive-morality

?

We do have high hive-morality... Do unto others and whatnot. Or in other cases, if someone kills a neighbor or even another human who you did not know, and you will get upset about it, despite it having no actual effect on yourself or your wellbeing.

[Jackrabbit]

Um. Humans are extremely xenophobic, agressive,shortsighted, narrow-minded, high hive-morality when it comes to conflict. If anyone should be worried about fidning agressive aliens, it's these other species.

Gives you a perverse sense of pride, doesn't it? Go us.

If we are very unlucky: We will encounter extremely advanced hostile aliens, that want us only for our bodies...

See, no matter how mind bogglingly different aliens could be I have trouble believing they would want to enslave us and start some prostitution racket.

[Tarran]

If we are very unlucky: We will encounter extremely advanced hostile aliens, that want us only for our bodies...

See, no matter how mind bogglingly different aliens could be I have trouble believing they would want to enslave us and start some prostitution racket.

...That's not what I mean... *cue aliens from 'Alien' bursting out of random people's chests*

[alway]

If we are very unlucky: We will encounter extremely advanced hostile aliens, that want us only for our bodies...

See, no matter how mind bogglingly different aliens could be I have trouble believing they would want to enslave us and start some prostitution racket.

...That's not what I mean... *cue aliens from 'Alien' bursting out of random people's chests*

Err, that's exactly what Jackrabbit said. Not to mention, no sane alien would entrust their young to the innards of nasty, diseased humans full of earth bacteria.

As for the reasons for strip mining a universe, there is one good reason I can think of: to build a computer.

Spoiler: Spoilered for long-windedness and general strangeness (click to show/hide)

There is a physical limit as to the size to which a computer component can be reduced. After this size is reached, the only way to make a computer faster is to build a bigger computer. Now, imagine a society which has gone through a technological singularity of sorts. They have found that by putting themselves into computers rather than physical bodies, they are able to use much, much, less resources per person; be it energy usage or minerals. Now imagine these creatures have even less inhibitions when it comes to population control than  humans. An empire of these creatures have begun rapidly expanding from their starting planet. But due to various limitations, they are unable to build colonies capable of sustaining such large populations in time to continue growing at their exponential rate. They then decide the only solution which will allow them to avoid breaking their social taboo of population control is to put people into computers. Due to much larger storage capacity of individuals per unit of resources, they are able to continue their exponential growth, and the extra time they bought themselves before it becomes a problem again allows them to send out ships capable of tranforming entire solar systems into computing units. Thus turning the universe into computers.

A bit far fetched, but not impossible.

[Tarran]

If we are very unlucky: We will encounter extremely advanced hostile aliens, that want us only for our bodies...

See, no matter how mind bogglingly different aliens could be I have trouble believing they would want to enslave us and start some prostitution racket.

...That's not what I mean... *cue aliens from 'Alien' bursting out of random people's chests*

Err, that's exactly what Jackrabbit said. Not to mention, no sane alien would entrust their young to the innards of nasty, diseased humans full of earth bacteria.

...I thought he meant aliens actually... Mating with humans...

Well, you never know what aliens would want with our bodies. The could want our brains for their computers for all we know.

[Aqizzar]

You were warned, and yet you did nothing!

[Jackrabbit]

It could go either way.

You know those aliens.

The want our women,

[Tarran]

There is so much wrong in those last two posts that it makes it right.

[Il Palazzo]

You think that was bad? What if they want our men?

[Jackrabbit]

Really depends on the alien, but I'm up for it. You know. Depending.

[alway]

It could go either way.

You know those aliens.

The want our women,

Actually... If you took the concept of eating one's (male) mate found in various earth species, and gave them intelligence, you may very well end up with a female dominated species. And to anthropomorphize a bit much here, if they passed on family names/titles similar to humans, they may well end up with a gender disparity as males would be not only vied for because of those seeking multiple matings, but also because of an unwillingness for a family to waste resources on offspring which will gain them little and only live long enough to mate once and die. So maybe... They want our men. Or at least for the first night, after which they will rip their heads off and devour them. As a side note, this would make a decent sci-fi plot, but would be pretty much impossible in real life. 

[Zironic]

If we are very unlucky: We will encounter extremely advanced hostile aliens, that want us only for our bodies...

Sounds like a Larry Niven novel.  (I hate that guy)

When you finally learn how advanced the puppeteer race really is, it becomes frightening how much control and power they actually have. They move the stars themselves because they fear space, however this fear of space also limits their technological advancements to planet-level and defensive uses.

[smjjames]

On the subject of extremely advanced and ancient aliens, Sci-Fi has these all over the place. They are generally called the Precursors, Old Ones, and various permutations on the same meaning. Star Trek has these highly advanced aliens all over the place, although they are usually non-corporeal, having transcended mortal forms or changed dimensions long ago.

Who knows, maybe WE humans are the first ones to develop sapience, so maybe we are the Progenitors. However, given the fact that some dinosaur species had evolved pretty high intelligence, on par with some of the more advanced mammals, so if they had survived, maybe they would have developed civilizaton a couple of million years before we would have.

[Pillow_Killer]

Universe is old.

[The Doctor]

Your mother.