This is an fun story titled “Well that was dumb…” posted to r/HFY by Admirable-Marsupial3! HFY (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) is a subreddit for all media exhibiting the awesome potential of humanity. They welcome sci-fi, fantasy, and all other stories with a focus on humans being awesome! This little sci-fi story is about humans asking dumb questions to aliens:
Source: r/HFY
(via: Imgur)
What happened next?
The Roulids died. Pretty horrifically, I suspect.
This isn’t a direct answer, but it might give some clues.
https://mediachomp.com/the-humans-answered/
here you go! https://imgur.com/gallery/dFdlVfT
The humans demonstrated their mining technique to the Roulids. So they could get an up close and personal look at the results.