Complete nonsense. The factors that go into meaningful levels of interstellar exploration -- not just the physics and engineering, but economic and sociological as well, all but dictate that a culture capable of such a feat (assuming any exist at all) is no longer suffering from the problems inherent to scarcity. That such a culture would a) be bound in its capacities by the need for a particular non-synthesisable material, b) not have figured out how to harvest said material from a more extraction-friendly environment, and c) not be able to work out a more efficient and efficacious way to produce the material than slave/livestock labour, is just wacky; and the idea that we humans are the product of some essential part of our space fathers' grand design is just typical of the importance that many humans erroneously attach to humanity.
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