More than all us. If there’s anything to know.
We’re a small system on the outer arm of our galaxy. Galactic boonies.
We’re nowhere close to the center of our galaxy. If anyone came to our galaxy from outside why would they come here first if at all?
If anyone came to our galaxy from outside why would they come here first if at all?
Eh, I’ve seen this question before and it doesn’t make much sense to me. Obviously speculating, but the analogy would be we have biologists and zoologists and whatnot who travel around the world to study animal species, insect species, etc. Intelligence likes to explore, learn and discover. Kind of inherent to the whole “intelligence” definition.
If there’s a more advanced alien/intelligence out there, why wouldn’t they be interested in visiting or studying us? It’s mostly obvious that life is rare in the universe, therefore it would be interesting whenever you find life on any planet. Not to mention a planet with more than just microbes. We’ve got a LOT of life here.
Additionally, one of the species is a “new” “Intelligent” species (depending on who you ask LOL). They’ve got nukes, they’re heating up their planets habitat, maybe close to getting some form of AGI soon.
They might be interested the exact way we would be extremely interested. Who knows, maybe they already catalogued us in whatever their super advanced form of Wikipedia is…
Our lone galaxy is 100,000 light years across. Just ours. In a sea of an uncountable number of galaxies.
I have no doubt that there is other life out there. But we’re so far away from anything.
Our tiny minds (mine included) can’t even fathom the scale of our universe. And to the best of our current knowledge there’s no getting past the speed of light. So it’s 100,000 years to cross this one galaxy at the currently understood peak of what we might be capable of centuries from now.
And to the best of our current knowledge there’s no getting past the speed of light.
An important point that I rarely hear discussed, “to the best of our current knowledge”.
This is the key point, putting our current limitations due what we currently understand (and don’t understand) about physics and science in general, and placing those limitations on a potentially more advanced intelligence, does not satisfy me at all.
If they exist, and are more advanced, then by definition of “more advanced” they will know more than we do, otherwise they wouldn’t be more advanced. We can’t know what that is until we discover it ourselves or they tell us.
200 years ago we got around on horses or walking. 100 years ago we still hadn’t split the atom yet. We could still be like toddlers of scientific discovery.
In the end you could be right, the speed of light could be a final unbreakable limit. Could be wrong though and we won’t know until we do.
There’s a whole vector where we’re on the way to the center
