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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What if they need water?

Drain our oceans and fuck up our ecosystems and weather balance.

The ocean is earths heatsink. Imagen extreme temperature changes across the planet. All life as we know it could end.

For fun I asked AI...

what are the consequenses of aliens stealing half of our ocean water?


Oh, what a fascinating (and somewhat alarming) scenario! Let's imagine it, shall we?

Ecological Impact:

  1. Marine Life: If half of our ocean water vanished, marine ecosystems would be devastated. Many species of fish, coral, and other marine life would struggle to survive in the drastically altered environment. The reduction in available water would likely cause mass extinctions.

  2. Weather Patterns: The oceans play a crucial role in regulating Earth's climate. With significantly less water, we would see dramatic changes in weather patterns. Areas that depend on the ocean for moisture might experience severe droughts, while others could face unpredictable storms.

Human Impact:

  1. Food Supply: Many communities around the world rely on the ocean for their primary food source. The loss of half the ocean would lead to a sharp decline in fish and other seafood, causing food shortages and affecting the global food supply chain.

  2. Economic Impact: Industries such as fishing, tourism, and shipping would face catastrophic losses. Coastal communities that depend on these industries would suffer economically.

Environmental Impact:

  1. Sea Level: If aliens took half of the ocean water away, sea levels would drop drastically. While this might seem like a good thing for areas currently threatened by rising sea levels, it would expose vast areas of the seabed, creating new environmental challenges.

  2. Temperature Regulation: Oceans act as a giant heat sink, absorbing and distributing heat around the planet. Without this balance, we could see more extreme temperature fluctuations and accelerated climate change.

Global Panic:

  1. Geopolitical Tensions: Countries might blame one another for not preventing the alien intervention, leading to international conflicts.

  2. Technological and Scientific Response: There would be a global race to develop technologies to either recover the lost water or adapt to the new reality.

In summary, if aliens stole half of our ocean water, the consequences would be catastrophic, impacting every aspect of life on Earth. Now, let's hope this remains in the realm of science fiction! ๐Ÿ˜Š What sparked your curiosity about this scenario?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Water is nothing but 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen. They bond fairly easily at room temp. While yes, it would be faster to just suck up water from our oceans, it's extremely more energy intensive to travel to our part of the milky way. They could literally hit up a hydrogen intense moon/planet and another oxygen one and just make it themselves with the little energy it needs for it to bond.

I think the main difference between our planet and others like ours that would be more rare is life. Being the only sentient planet that we know of makes us more special.

So potentially they are just abducting us to probe our butts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

With any luck it would be Alien archeologists that want to observe the rare primitivities and not intervene.

The prime directive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

They are probably watching us destroy our planet and observing and recording. How nature conservancy folks don't intervine when an animal is doing something self destructive.