Talk:They Need the Earth/@comment-35711173-20190106010254

When removing resources from a planet, gravity is not your friend. Why not extract the resources from where it is far easier, like the asteroid belt or the frozen moons of the outer planets? Some have FAR more ice than Earth and are light enough you could just tow them. Oh, they might come for Earth eventually, but logically they would go for the easiest resources first. There's nothing on Earth that's unique. Water, iron, oxygen, nitrogen, all of that is extremely common throughout our galaxy.

When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic. Joseph Stalin. A whole planet dead is a really droll statistic. Wham, we are down and out. No feeling, no emotion, no dread. They launch their germ warfare and we all die. End of story. No attempt to stop it or to isolate ourselves or to survive.

I am not saying that it isn't the most logical thing to do if you want the resources of one particular planet as easily as possible. Instead, I'm saying that the elements on Earth aren't unusual. If they wanted it, they could find them in systems FAR closer to them than us and in places that are far easier to extract it from in massive quantities.

As for corrections, I spotted a backslash in "They had observed the\m killing each other, leveling cities, poisoning the oceans with filth, and burning countless forests down." You have about a half a dozen errors that http://www.Grammarly.com spotted in free mode while https://www.scribens.com/ finds three run-on sentences.