I see it like being overtaken on the highway — there are very few reasons for aliens to expend the energy needed to physically interact with us in the first place. And the reasons to do such a thing include:
Halt our expansion into the universe because of our penchant for destruction
Claim our planet for their own after destroying theirs
Extract our resources
???
After expending the energy and resources to get into Earth’s orbit, it’s probably a lot more efficient to subjugate or destroy the dominant life form than to try and figure out how to communicate with it to achieve the above objectives.
Back to the highway analogy: most aliens wouldn’t want war with us… but we’re unlikely to ever cross paths with such beings in this vast universe, due to either time or distance.
After expending the energy and resources to get into Earth’s orbit, it’s probably a lot more efficient to subjugate or destroy the dominant life form than to try and figure out how to communicate with it to achieve the above objectives.
I see it like being overtaken on the highway — there are very few reasons for aliens to expend the energy needed to physically interact with us in the first place. And the reasons to do such a thing include:
After expending the energy and resources to get into Earth’s orbit, it’s probably a lot more efficient to subjugate or destroy the dominant life form than to try and figure out how to communicate with it to achieve the above objectives.
Back to the highway analogy: most aliens wouldn’t want war with us… but we’re unlikely to ever cross paths with such beings in this vast universe, due to either time or distance.
Why? How so?
Blowing shit up is always easier than understanding the shit you’re going to blow up.
No, it really isn’t!
Yes, it really is!
I think history would beg to differ.
How so?
4: Just talk and learn from us because they’re frickin’ curious.
I mean, that would be humanity’s motivation.
I assumed 4 would be some form of sex tourism.
Eh. The motivations of the people in charge of humanity would be resources or xenophobia.
We can’t even get along with other humans well enough to learn from them properly.