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I’m rewatching The X-Files at the moment, and it’s so weird to remember a time when people believed that government agencies were staffed by people smart enough to investigate or cover up alien conspiracies.
It actually works as evidence against the theories that aliens have visited earth, because if it existed, Patel would have accidentally tweeted the Roswell autopsy video while eating his lunch on the toilet by now.
I personally suspect that if aliens actually did show up to earth, they wouldn't be content to remain in the shadows.
Basically, the native life is the only thing that would be of interest. we (that is life,) are the only things that are actually unique to this particular system. If it's simple curiosity about things, they could study us from a distance, without ever revealing themselves to us (or the government.)
Which leaves a few reasons for why they'd come here:
Either way... we'd know they'd be here.
I mean.. it is the prime directive and all
Pretty sure the prime directive says “if they’ve nuked themselves hundreds of times… DONOTGOTHERE!!!!”
(Of course they went there. What could go wrong?)
Picturing the onion article. Planet that nukes itself over and over cannot prevent nuking itself
“Planet keeps nuking itself, wonders why interstellar tourism is in decline.”