I always thought the idea of aliens having sufficiently advanced technology to travel light years or even thousands of light years to get here, only to end up not being able to observe us undetected and/or crashing is not very plausible.
Newly released video taken on board the USS Omaha, a littoral combat ship, shows what is described as a transmedium vehicle (that is, a vehicle capable of traveling through both air and water) movi…
Why would any self-respecting alien capable of interstellar travel at greater than the speed of light want to visit a backwater place like earth anyways? If they do exist, they are probably not alone, and probably more interested in visiting each other than some primitive species like us.
Why would any self-respecting alien capable of interstellar travel at greater than the speed of light want to visit a backwater place like earth anyways?
A society advanced far enough for deep space, interplanetary travel would be sufficiently efficient to be able to strip a planet this size of 100% of the mineral content in a matter of hours. They wouldn't even take note of a few million organic bi-peds wandering around the surface.
An advanced society of intellectually superior aliens, could have conceivably advanced morally also. Their view might well be that "Who are we to assume that our culture has so much to offer that we should modify destroy the existing culture of the earth, particularly if they are happy as they are?" I have observed this attitude by Anthropologists in regard to primitive cultures.
They believe that there are technically advanced and primitive cultures, but there are only different types of cultures, not different degrees...and they are very critical of missionaries, who have reputedly done more harm to the primitives than good.