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Originally Posted by Silly Moustache
Let us consider why an alien intelligence capable of interstellar travel would be interested in us and/or our planet?
Firstly, and we can only consider situations using human motives, there would be the search for resources.
That is why humans and other species travel.
Resources? So what does our little planet have that is in short supply elsewhere?
Thoughts of the old story "To Serve Man".
Secondly, the pure desire for research - like we explore and record/document other species.
Maybe we are in a kind of zoo and don't even realise it?
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I don't think a species capable of interstellar travel would need earth resources. In many respects we live on an unremarkable rock, with millions
probably similar to our own.
I think that curiosity is probably fundamental to advanced civilisations. Hopefully they just want to check us out.
Humans are coming round to the idea that most animals are best left to themselves in their own environment. A sort of earth based Prime Directive.
Aliens will probably leave us alone until we prove ourselves civilised enough to converse with.