They didn’t even have to come to a populated planet if they wanted to get gold out of the solar system. And unlike us humans in the article, they presumably don’t have to worry about devaluation.
Yes. What gets me is how people devalue humans. That if our linage doesn’t come from aliens then somehow we are not special?
I’d say everything that had to happen for humans to exist is more impressive than “aliens”
I agree completely. We’ve achieved amazing things with our limited primate brains which evolved to be hunter-gatherers, but that’s not enough for these people.
Even more than that, just the sheer factors that came together to create life, and then sentient life, and then intelligent life were immense in their variability. And we have no idea if it would have worked if some of the variables were not favorable. It’s hard to compare when you can only look at a sample size of one.
Also with differentiated asteroids like Vesta, Ceres (and maybe Psyche) they’re entirely cold. So rather than scrabbling around for the flecks of gold on the surface like on Earth, you can just tunnel down into the core and mine all the heavy metals that sunk during the planetoid’s molten era.
