(10-17-2017, 07:40 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(10-17-2017, 07:04 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Why?

Why would a race in a distant galaxy choose to visit a planet in our galaxy? Even assuming faster than light travel speeds (and I can't imagine undertaking interstellar curiosity trips at sub-light speeds) there's a lot of real estate to investigate before ever coming to the Milky Way galaxy. 

Maybe you can include the galaxies in the local group and other nearby galaxies along with the Milky Way, but that only increases the number of possible extraterrestrial home planets by a factor of a hundred or so at most, and doesn't change the argument. It just makes the meaning of common vs. uncommon slightly different. Wherever they supposedly came from there wasn't an earlier race that colonized Earth, so they would have have to arisen at cosmologically the same time as we did.

The Sci-Fi stories of other races interacting with humans are enjoyable, but Asimov's galactic empire where humans are the only higher life form in the galaxy is much more likely.

Scientist have already theorized that travelling light years in short amounts of time can be achieved by using wormholes. Personally, I believe we'll be able to travel much further and faster than most people thought possible, within the next 100 years, (if we survive destruction by our own hands as a species.) As for why aliens from a distant galaxy would want to visit Earth, well, maybe they did research and eliminated planets that they believed couldn't hold life. Presumably, they should be much more advanced than humanity, so why not? Who knows the reasons why they would come here? Just because it seems unlikely, doesn't mean it should be totally discounted. Lots of unlikely things in life turn out to be true. Personally, I just don't see how anyone can logically conclude that humans are the only higher life form. To each their own though.

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