Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: What an advanced race would come far to get : slaves Message-ID: <15465@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:49:45 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15465 Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:49:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:49:31 EDT References: <2389@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 Summary: 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