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Their mindset might differ in perspective,
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We can only hope...
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1) Altruism may be high on their list of leadership qualities, making religious leaders ("Lord help us") and philanthropist seems like a category of humans to deal with. |
Philanthropists maybe but I suspect any race capable of interstellar travel have probably evolved past the "mighty creator" waffle. The scale of the distances they had to travel to get here would assure that... IMHO
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2) Accumulation of hard wealth might be seen as powerful (i.e. not a human construct such as "paper" money, like maybe gold, uranium or " latinum"). |
I doubt it. You can get virtually everything you need from asteroids etc. Coming a gazilion km's to mine a hostile environment seems somewhat illogical when its all just lying about up there for free. It may be a favourite SCiFi scenario but not really probable I suspect.
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3) Viruses may be seen as the dominant life-form and considered the most evolved (i.e. survivability) as they use a fragile and mobile life-forms (i.e. humans, animals etc...) for propagation and transportation. They may actually be able to communicate with what we see as a simplistic form of life.
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I suspect that "they" would have evolved along similar lines and have ample virus and bacteria species of their own. You'd think they would see them for what they are.
Doubtless, anything within 60 ly with a receiver in the right spectrum and pointed our way would have been monitoring "us" for a period of time and, hence, have a lot of intel on us already. Its pretty much what we are trying to do ourselves by exploring our own system and searching for "them".
If you use a bit a bit of logic, the odds are that a sentient space faring race would do one of a few things:
1/ Swat us as a plague species!
2/ Study us as a possibly intelligent species in an early phase of evolution.
3/ Attempt to help us deal with our crap so that they have another race to communicate with.
4/ Quarantine us.
Given the fact that we are constantly at war with our own viruses/bacteria etc etc etc and we always lose in the end, they would be highly unlikely to attempt a landing.
M2cW