What did man think about those things 2,000 years ago, what is man going to think about those things in 10,000 years.
There won't be a habitable planet left in 1000 years, never mind 10,000.
If aliens do ever land, they'll probably look around at the devastation and **** off sharpish.
Maybe they'll leave a little waste disposal robot behind to clean the place up a bit.
Can it be The Culture – please, pretty please?
This^
I think if humanity managed to actually sort it's shit out and the entirety of us managed to work together we could probably have interstellar travel worked out in a fortnight. Instead we have all sorts of companies/countries/ego-driven billionaires each with their own agenda of how to get into space/back to the moon.
well this is a bit coincimental
https://twitter.com/ChrisCYVR/status/1701795595789475885
the truth is out there 👽
If another lifeform is advanced enough to travel to another occupied planet, they would probably have invented the ability to timetravel too. So, it's probably aready happened/going to happen.
Any hyper developed alien society probably had their own problems in the past. Wars, unsustainable resource depletion, every problem we have as a human race, they probably had the same and at least partially resolved it.
Do they want to help us, do they need us to figure it out ourselves, are they sitting up there laughing at us like a planetary reality tv show?
If they possess the ability to study our culture unobserved, or even if they are in contact with world leaders, what would they think would be the consequence of them coming out of the shadows? And how has that changed in the last few hundred years of human history.
Anything pre-enlightenment, they would have been either worshiped as gods or killed as a flase god. Victorian times you had war of the worlds, with destructive invaders as the only real reference. Only really since Star Trek have we really had a pop culture reference for contact, communication (and at times conflict) with alien races.
If an alien race checked in on us every hundred plus years or so, on their last visit we were just making a start on powered flight, had little in the way of medicine, and spent a lot of our time invading/colonising/warring with each other, badly.
Now, we are capable of leaving our planet, understand most of physics, can communicate with and travel to most places in the world, diagnose and treat most diseases/ailments, share most of our knowledge via the internet, and recently have developed AI.
I was told in China that if they landed there they'd most likely eat them.
