/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10563697
>exploration for explorations sake
We explored to mine resources and lack of immediate ROI is the main reason we havent gone back to Space, though sentiments are changing now that people are learning about what we could be doing with asteroid mining and business opportunities on Mars. I imagine intelligent aliens, especially any who grew by fighting one another like we do, might eventually come around to thinking about whether or not other alien life exists like we do. They'd then be rushing towards certain stars and black holes and attempting to build Dyson sphere based weapons in order to defend themselves from any other group that might have such technology. Or just make subjugating other groups a hell of a lot easier. It would kinda be like how we had our race for nuclear weapons here on earth a few decades ago. Plus, it makes more sense to ensure you have a superweapon in your back pocket before you go exploring random planets looking for alien life, particularly intelligent life.