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human
CMV: Extraterrestrials, if they exist within range of us, have no reason to ever visit Earth.

We have nothing to offer them here and they would be about as interested in meeting us as you are interested in traveling to the middle of the desert to check out an ant hill. Any raw materials that can be found here can be found in absolutely super massive quantities in space, so much so that it would not be worth coming here for that. Our technology is primitive and would be useless to anything advanced enough to get here. Life itself would not be that interesting to a species so advanced it could make it in a lab easily or simulated in an extremely detailed simulation, or have an AI figure out whatever could be learned from studying life without ever coming here. We would not make good slaves, we are weak, unruly, and primitive, an AI would be infinitely loyal and a far better worker. Slaves would be useless.

At the very best we might be a mild curiosity, but that hardly seems worth traversing the vast super desert of space for, unless perhaps there is a very easy way to quickly travel unimaginably massive amounts of space we do not know about. Even then they likely have come here, found nothing of interest, and left long before human evolved. It would be a very long stretch but maybe a human or other earthling would make a neat excotic pet, but then again it might just be much easier to just make an exotic pet in the lab.

I find the ideas of cover ups very difficult to believe at best. They have never been here, and if they did come they would make their presence pretty obvious, not just hover over blurry cameras. A cover up would be extremely expensive, difficult, and likely to fail, and would have pretty much no pay off to try and cover up in  the first place and in the off chance there is some kind of cover up, it would have to be an extremely poorly executed cover up for it to be possible that any civilian could find information on the internet about it. I just do not find any of the cover up talk convincing in the least. It seems people believe in cover ups simply because they want to believe, not because of solid evidence.

We are but tiny specs in a vast endless universe. Nothing about our spec is particularly unique if life does exist elsewhere in the universe as it could easily be made in the lab by any advanced lifeform (if life does not exist elsewhere then we are actually the most amazing thing in this entire universe, as single day here is absolutely extraordinary if nothing else is alive out there). Anything advanced enough to get here would have no reason to be interested in us. The one stipulation is that we can not know how or what they think so trying to predict their motivations is difficult, but from a rational standpoint there is really nothing here on Earth.  


Edit: this blew up \*way\* faster and bigger than I thought it would. I appreciate all of your time but I will not be able to answer everybody. I will do my best to answer as much as I can.
gpt
>We have nothing to offer them here and they would be about as interested in meeting us as you are interested in traveling to the middle of the desert to check out an ant hill. 

Why do you think they would care about what we have or don't have to offer them? We're a new species. Even on this planet, we have people absolutely fascinated with newly discovered species, even dedicating their lives to studying them, even though those new species don't have or might not have anything to 'offer'.

As for not having anything to offer, what exactly do you mean? Just new technologies they may not have?

We have people willing to not only travel to the middle of a desert to that anthill on Earth today but they do it as a career. They have intense interest in it, especially if the ant is an entirely new species.

>Any raw materials that can be found here can be found in absolutely super massive quantities in space, so much so that it would not be worth coming here for that. Our technology is primitive and would be useless to anything advanced enough to get here.

Do you think raw materials or tech is the only thing we might have to offer an alien species? Do you think that's all an alien species might be interested in?