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If we nuke ourselves to devastation then there won’t be interstellar travel, so if there eventually is then that wouldn’t have been a problem
They could just want the planet, not the energy or resources. Earth is, for all we know, very rare. >

They could also just want us as pets. A pet hooman to amuse them. >

Free food, shelter and breeding?You son of a bitch I'm in! >

even if their idea of pet is so much like ours that the free food is even more like "human kibble" than r/showerthoughts says cereal is, the shelter is crude with no amenities (as even if you're an "indoor human" they wouldn't take too kindly to you using theirs if you even could) and the breeding, assuming you get bred and not forcibly castrated, is with someone you don't even love but has the right genes that your mating could produce a pageant lineage that fits within their arbitrary "human breed standards" for whatever you'd both be considered? >

So you're saying there's a chance I could be treated like a stud and get milked at the milking table for my spatter batter to be sold off for huge amounts of currency and possibly costing more for the buyer if they're wanted their pet human to get the natural/organic injection of my batter?? 
Where is it that I sign? Next to the drawn X? >

(even assuming that aliens would treat us like we treat our pets (I said pets and was talking about dogs and cats, you seem to be treating your hypothetical treated-like-an-animal self like they're a cow or a horse, animals that are very rarely pets) in the first place)
If there's a chance it's only a chance and not a 100% one (and you aren't guaranteed that "job" just because you have a metaphorical mental image of yourself as Gigachad Thundercock or w/e) as there's also a chance that you could end up getting sent to the pound and/or put down because the offspring you and your mate are forced to have end up getting all the recessive genes and looking like the opposite of "breed standard" so you and them get potentially-euthanized and the offspring given away because your owners were just that hardcore about having a show lineage >

That’s not at all what they would do. They would label you a non show level human and they would sell you at a discount to someone who prefers humans from your area. >

Maybe not to the level of euthanization but I've seen people who get almost this level of crazy regarding show pets >

Maybe they would require a pit stop and we are on their way somewhere. >

pit stops in space are expensive, since you need to decelerate and then accelerate again. if you're on your way from point A to point B, making one pit stop along the way doubles your energy bill, and significantly increases your travel time, unless they are so advanced that things like inertia or speed of light do not matter; but such civilization would be so advanced that i doubt we can come close to comprehending their motivation
Faster than light travel might be very common in scifi, so it might feel like we might have it in a century or two, but it's so far from our understanding of laws of nature that it's effectively magic at this point
Edit: But i do agree, to some degree; it seems silly to come all the way here even from the nearest star just for something we have; but they might come here for completely different reasons, and then decide to take our stuff as well since they've gone through all the trouble of coming here >

Ok, but say you have the energy to travel x light years, but you need to go x × 1.5 light years. You would have to make a pitstop even if it uses more energy to make a stop than it does to not >

Great question! To be honest, it's a very mile per gallon way of looking at things
Travelling in space, at least under known physics, is accelerating to a respectable portion of the speed of light, then coasting for a while, then decelerating. The top speed at which you decide to travel depends on several factors, first how much energy you're willing to spend, since you'll be getting diminishing returns as you approach the speed of light; also, at what speed you can safely travel, since at those velocities a small pebble hits with the energy of a small nuke, and you wouldn't want to exceed the speed at which you'll be able to safely deflect the occasional pebble
Thing is, accelerating and decelerating costs a lot of energy; coasting is almost free; of course, you spend some energy on life support, anti asteroid measures, sensors, etc, but compared to accelerating/braking that should be peanuts
I guess it's true that you might need to travel such great distance that you can't cover it in one jump; but it might be cheaper to custom build a ship that can travel that distance without a pit stop than to actually make a pit stop (even if the energy is almost free, wasting let's say 20 years can't be cheap). Of course, the economy of interstellar travel is entirely the realm of speculation, and there might be valid reasons for a pit stop other than refuel; but i believe it's important to remember that a pit stop during an interstellar flight is something you would want to avoid at all costs >

I mean, someone could also just want a Big Gulp >

That's true. when you want a big gulp, energy costs matter very little >

We would be at their mercy which is the problem. Benevolent or not, in our experience that kind of relationship only goes one way. >

The powerful destroy the weak, for the weak will become stronger and destroy the powerful if they have the chance. >

Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox >

Whats thT >

Lets just say if they are the first to find us then its either likely they have found others or we are the first intelligent species they have found.
If we are the first, it would be just as ground breaking for them as it would be for us. Going to war would be extremely stupid.
They have no idea what we are capable of. But it would be a fair assumption to assume we are weak if we have not had any contact with any intelligent lifeforms outside of our own. >

Their definition of intelligent species could be totally different from us. We could just be the ravens of the apes in their scale. >

While true, the fact we have made it this far along would absolutely be noteworthy to them. >

Human imperialists have committed atrocities just to steal spices. If aliens are anything like us, we're fucked. >

That was on our planet within our species though. If we develop interstellar travel, it’ll have meant we’ve finally stopped hating each other and have surpassed the necessity for greed >

Or that we’ve nuked those we disagree with?