The aliens want more gold theory

Originally posted by MCJustJ
Everyone keeps assuming that gold is the only reason.

I believe the earth is a giant mining operation, do I think that's the sole reason we exist? Not at all, I feel as if mining is just a small operation compared to the grand scheme of things. I'd never claim any of this to be fact, I accept that its my belief and its all just assumptions, but I believe it nonetheless.

I the think the mining we did has been a thing of the past for a while though. Earth is nothing more than a planet with inhabitants now. Whatever interaction we may have had with ET has been over with for a while. Could happen again, and if it does I think it will have nothing to do with mining.

i like this view.
regardless of whether or not we started out as gold diggin' slave labour
any ET showing up these hundreds of thousands of years later
expecting us to still be diligently piling the mining carts
really doesn't deserve those capital letters.