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__Fiale__ posted...

Know one ever thinks that we could just be so stupid compared to aliens that we're seen as completely un-worthy of a visit.

What if there are things out in the universe that we just completely don't understand and never will? Maybe we're perceived as being so far behind, so mentally unable to grasp certain things, that there's just no point.

Maybe were viewed as just another planet destined to destroy itself like the hundreds/thousands these aliens have seen before?

Just food for thought. I'm not sure if I believe in aliens or not btw.

I think the fact that distances are so unimaginably large between stars that, in a sea of 200-400 billion stars scattered across 200k light years, it would be hard for even the most advanced races to find us, let alone visit us, and that's just this galaxy with a larger sister galaxy holding a trillion stars, over 2 million light years from us. And the hard cap of c does not seem possible to overcome and those that can, are still very sci-fi.

And this does not even factor in that intelligent humans have been around for what's considered a blink of an eye for the Universe.
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