Why Would Anyone Want to Invade Earth?

Argh. I left this blog post half done for a bit, and then Phil Plait went and did a similarly themed one, which is doubtless much better. I almost threw this away, but what the hell. My next post on this subject, though, will attempt to answer the question he didn't: ways to make an alien invasion actually plausible. So stay tuned!


Slightly more realistic than Tom Cruise.'Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast a...