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Originally Posted by Zaps
Any species capable of practical interstellar travel is unlikely to have much interest in us.
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Other than as a specimen to study maybe.
Who knows? They could be benevolent explorers wanting to share technologies and grow trade and culture. We portray Star Trek as going forth to boldly explore the universe with peaceful intentions despite our worldly war like actions.
We call ourselves the human race but we are a mix of very different cultures and beliefs many of which if they came from the sky we would be calling as hostile invaders. 'Aliens' come from other countries as well as possibly other worlds.
Maybe we would find out where we came from, pansperma, across the universe. Discover we are the offspring of a distant world(s) scattered to find other planets and continue the species in whatever form was required to live in an environment.
Oxygen btw, is regarded as a corrosive and bad environment. It oxidises and corrodes other elements. Are our galactic cousins silicon based life forms, or as recently postulated arsenic ? The three elements have atomic similarities that could under differing situations possibly support life. And there may be others we cannot even conceive.
Our world may be seen as to be so toxic to another life form they could bar us from ever being contacted.
Having spilled my weird and wonderful thoughts on the matter I think it comes down to the fact that we are an incredibly long way from anyone else out there and we are unlikely to see them in our lifetimes. And there is nothing we could do about it anyway. We just better be welcoming so we don't give the wrong idea, first impressions count you know
