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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder what another being would need of us if it was already able to travel through the vacuum of space while self-sustaining.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They'd want our coconuts, I bet. They're pretty cool, I bet aliens don't have coconuts. They might have some cool alien fruit to trade for coconuts. Or weed.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Coconuts are mammals

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

alien pointing at a coconut tree

Look, m'lord! Horses!

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Poetry, fashion, art, exotic pets.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's Footfall had that as a plot point. The youth of the alien invaders who were born on the ship and had never lived on a planet disagreed with the others about invading Earth as the stuff they need can more easily be found on Saturn's moons