It's kinda of a silly and pointless question. If an alien race capable of crossing interstellar distances landed anywhere in our solar system, they would be free to do absolutely anything they wanted to do and we would have absolutely no say in the matter. We would be powerless against them because of the technology gap.
I don't think any alien race would actually do this. Gravity wells are for suckers. Google 'Gerard K O'Neil', 'Planetary Chauvinism' and 'Isaac Arthur'. You don't terraform planets, you build them from scratch to suit your needs.
Hypothetical invaders would almost certainly be far more interested in our asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud. Even more likely, they would find stellar systems with even greater resources of raw materials than ours's - without the complication of it being home to an intelligent, technological civilization with a love of guns, bombs and action movies.
We need not worry about invaders from outside. We are under far greater danger from ourselves. Our challenge is to grow up emotionally before our ability to do self harm outstrips our maturity.
I don't think any alien race would actually do this. Gravity wells are for suckers. Google 'Gerard K O'Neil', 'Planetary Chauvinism' and 'Isaac Arthur'. You don't terraform planets, you build them from scratch to suit your needs.
Hypothetical invaders would almost certainly be far more interested in our asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud. Even more likely, they would find stellar systems with even greater resources of raw materials than ours's - without the complication of it being home to an intelligent, technological civilization with a love of guns, bombs and action movies.
We need not worry about invaders from outside. We are under far greater danger from ourselves. Our challenge is to grow up emotionally before our ability to do self harm outstrips our maturity.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
