Extraterrestrial Life

And, by the way, we don’t have to worry about [Aliens] stealing our resources. It’s not like they’re going to go, Ah, there’s a planet full of coal and water. We’re going to take it... In fact, that might be another answer to the Fermi paradox. [Aliens] don’t need to leave their local area because they’ve already got the technology to perfectly sustain them. — Brett Hall (source)

When we encounter the aliens, we shouldn’t expect that they’re going to be immoral bastards that are going to want to take over our resources, but the opposite: They’re going to look at us and think what primitive savages that we are. They’re going to think that we’re moral midgets, and they’re going to want to teach us. They’re not going to want to put us in prison or anything like that. — Brett Hall (source)