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Originally Posted by rcooled
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.
I agree. The distances involved are mind-boggling indeed.
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Earth is a good source of Protein, they seem to like the taste of humans which taste like Pork. Slow smoked over a wood fire....ummmm..uummmm...