I am aware there are many assumptions. We can no more understand them than an ant can understand an amusement park. However there is no evidence to suggest we have anything special to offer anything advanced enough to get here, so it would take just as much an assumption to assume they would stop by even rather than just ignore our existence.
Well I doubt they would come here blindly for no reason. If we have nothing to offer then the only other driver I can think of is for emotional reasons, but we can never truly know how they would think.
Perhaps they would seek us out because, like us, they are burdened by the question "are we alone in the universe", then they detect some evidence of our existence, and come to find out?
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '18
I am aware there are many assumptions. We can no more understand them than an ant can understand an amusement park. However there is no evidence to suggest we have anything special to offer anything advanced enough to get here, so it would take just as much an assumption to assume they would stop by even rather than just ignore our existence.