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Let's say the chance of Aliens visiting Earth is 1 in 1 vigintillion, then the chance of the Aliens being at similar levels of technological advancement as humans is 1 in 1 centillion...

In other words, they are so advanced that they can visit us without us knowing, unless they wanted us to know. They can wipe us out without us knowing, unless they wanted us to know.

I am so glad all these are still theoretical.




It's kinda funny that almost always when talking about other races and levels of technological development, the issue of a more highly advance race killing us is raised.

I would see it highly more probable, that if another life form has (and probably, definitely even, has) reached a state of technological development where they can travel to the stars and beyond, they would have already went through a phase in their development as a race, where they realized

'Hey, maybe it's not a good idea to kill ourselves or others, c'mon, let's work together, evolve and go further!'

I could even speculate that this is one of the requirements of making it to a level of technological and spiritual development where we can unlock the secrets of the universe in mutual assurance that we are not afraid of killing ourselves every day, and save that energy for something more constructive, like building space ships..


I simply speculate that no life in our galaxy has gotten much further than we have yet. If humanity manages to survive long enough to develop technology necessary for exploring our stellar neighbourhood, I'm still not sure we'll have completely figured out how to avoid all conflict yet.


I speculate that inter-solar-system travel is just not physically feasible on a human-like time scale. In the absolute gigantic nature of the universe, a scale beyond all human concept, we have not come across any evidence of other life forms traveling to us. I have to believe that if they are capable, they would be willing to do so, and they wouldn't do so and leave without interaction. An alien race that explores seems to suggest to me that they have curiosity and motivations. They have some element of humanity to them. And I can't believe they'd come this far just to watch billions of people die (from any cause) over the next tens of thousands of years.

I think our best hope is that one day, humanity evolves away from biological bodies. We become hardware. We can now travel as an entire society throughout space for millions or billions of years without a problem. At some point, before the heat death of the universe when we're no longer able to get the energy needed to travel (or even exist), we might come across another race that has also progressed and advanced just like us and our paths happen to intersect.


That would largely depend on their interactions with other planets before meeting us. If they've had bad experiences, to the point of almost being killed themselves, then they might well believe annihilating us or ignoring us is preferable to working with us. Self-preservation is a very powerful instinct in every species we've seen on Earth. Why wouldn't it be for aliens too?


>In other words, they are so advanced that they can visit us without us knowing, unless they wanted us to know. They can wipe us out without us knowing, unless they wanted us to know.

Just as likely they can wipe us out without caring if we know or knowing that we exist, no different then stepping on an ant as you walk to your car.




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