Sweetleaf wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Why do we even assume the aliens would be comprehensible to humans or that they'd have any interest in humanity?
I don't really assume that, probably would depend on the aliens....I saw some weird glowing orbs in the sky orange and kinda firey looking once that had comet looking tails when they moved do not really think they where of this world but certainly seemed to be observing what was going on, on this planet. My dad and his friend also saw them with me. So if those where aliens it would seem they where interested...but there are probably plenty that wouldn't be. And probably aliens that we wouldn't even perceive as living beings, they might not even perceive us that way. No one really knows.
Even if we understand that each other is living, something as simple as metabolic rates could make interaction virtually impossible. An entity with a very slow metabolic rate might perceive it's world at that tempo and find humans to be like annoying nattering hummingbirds on crack relative to their perception of the universe. Or they might be the hummingbirds and we may be too slow mentally to comprehend them.
And that's only one of the many potential ways that two intelligent lifeforms may be entirely incompatible for cooperation.
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