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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

unhinged extended thoughts under a meme pic time but - I was never into UFOlogy for very normal reasons, but after becoming an annoying communist its become more absurd to me. imagine an alien species overcoming all the material hurdles required to attain space flight, flying all the way to earth, and not uplifting the billions of suffering creatures on the dying rock by at least saying hello

like sure alien life might be fundamentally different to us, we might never be able to comprehend their origins and society and whatever. but i truly believe if something out there has unlocked the literal magic of interstellar travel, they're not doing so for ominous reasons, or to conduct pointless surveillance. they're not going to 'wait for us' to become enlightened and they're definitely not crashing over north america 10 times a year

yeah maybe we'd be insignificant to them and i shouldn't apply human reasoning to hypothetical alien intelligence, but like, if humanity was out there traveling the stars, a huge portion of our population would probably be advocating aid programs for 'lesser worlds.' it's a very personal thought but i'm forced to assume aliens would be the same. so that's how i know aliens have never actually visited us, on top of all the other normal rational reasoning.

anyway thanks for listening to my ramble you may enjoy your meme

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Humans and earth's biosphere are valuable simply by existing. Since complex life is very very very very rare. Alien xenobiologists and evolutionary scientists would have an great interest in studying and observing earth.

It is a fundamentally flawed approach to project human thought patterns onto aliens (human reality itself is limited by its own methods of observation), biological reality shapes ideology. BUT it can still be deducted that any alien species advanced enough for interstellar travel is curious and pro-science and so would find xeno-ecospheres valuable.

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