Maybe the extraterrestrials don’t want to disturb the silly little humans figuring out space travel? But to be fair, some of us humans don’t really care for other animals, so what’s to say the extraterrestrials care about us? Or maybe, to achieve technological feats such as building a dish to pick up faint signals many times larger than us humans, the extraterrestrials had to cooperate and not fight amongst each other (and just be kinder and more caring in general). The ISS, our species’ greatest engineering marvel, was only possible due to the cooperation of people from all over the world! Something to think about.
I’m biased as a biologist, but I don’t think extraterrestrials will reach out to humanity until we’ve solved both global peace and biological immortality (the second being much easier and closer than scifi makes it seem and likely a prerequisite for the first). Until we have a population that’s basically capable of responsibly managing themselves, I think humanity looks like infants or maybe teens throwing tantrums. Unstable, unreliable, and in need of the time to work itself out.
That’s assuming of-course that they’re near by in the first place, which is unknown.
Maybe the extraterrestrials don’t want to disturb the silly little humans figuring out space travel? But to be fair, some of us humans don’t really care for other animals, so what’s to say the extraterrestrials care about us? Or maybe, to achieve technological feats such as building a dish to pick up faint signals many times larger than us humans, the extraterrestrials had to cooperate and not fight amongst each other (and just be kinder and more caring in general). The ISS, our species’ greatest engineering marvel, was only possible due to the cooperation of people from all over the world! Something to think about.
I’m biased as a biologist, but I don’t think extraterrestrials will reach out to humanity until we’ve solved both global peace and biological immortality (the second being much easier and closer than scifi makes it seem and likely a prerequisite for the first). Until we have a population that’s basically capable of responsibly managing themselves, I think humanity looks like infants or maybe teens throwing tantrums. Unstable, unreliable, and in need of the time to work itself out.
That’s assuming of-course that they’re near by in the first place, which is unknown.