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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Lets assume some really advanced civilization has done what Einstein and all the laws of physics say is simply impossible and can travel faster than light by many orders of magnitude and can really travel to other star systems, what would they want us for? Why come all the way here when we are just another grain of sand on a beach that is the size of Jupiter.
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Good point. Just take a look at how & why previously unknown areas of our own planet were colonized by the "advanced" civilizations of Europe back in the 16th and 17th centuries. Compared to the Native Americans at that time, the Europeans were as technologically advanced as we might imagine an extraterrestrial civilization to be beyond us today. When the Americas were "discovered", the voyagers did nothing to conceal themselves from the locals. Nor did they just drop in to build a few structures and then never come back. Quite the opposite in many cases. Indigenous people were exterminated or enslaved during an all-out quest for riches and resources that only gained momentum as time passed. These early voyages of discovery weren't funded and undertaken on a whim, but rather to hopefully find a source of riches and power for the countries sponsoring them.
Why would an alien civilization ever bother coming to our Earth? I would imagine for some of the same reasons that Europeans first came to the Americas. For something of value to them, like natural resources...or maybe to establish an outpost on their frontier. I sincerely doubt that any advanced extraterrestrial civilization would invest the time, effort, and resources to travel billions of miles merely to rile up the locals with some flashing lights in the night sky. Surely they have better things to do.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The universe is truly unimaginably BIG. There are trillions of planets just in our galaxy and more galaxies than we can count. In all that there must be other intelligence. They are just too far away.
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I agree. The distances involved are mind-boggling indeed.
