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[+] [S] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months 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

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