it seems likely some of them would be space travelors by now.
You just said:
There are billions of areas in the universe that are millions of years older than us
And:
amount we’ve advanced in the last 125 years
Logically, you understand that with two vastly different times scales over that much distance…
The chances of overlap is infinitly small?
Maybe they passed by before our solar system even formed. Maybe after our sun burns out they stroll by.
But why would they choose to spend their time wandering around in a spaceship anyways?
Even if they had instant travel making distance and time absolutely meaningless. If life is so plentiful and there’s so many that are that advanced, exponentially more at our level, and innumerable planets supporting more basic forms of life…
Why would they care about us?
We’re one in trillions to them.
Quick edit:
Back to the point, in that scenario we’d never be “no contact” because they wouldn’t care.
Any one planet wouldnt even be a rounding error.
We wouldn’t be one of the few they want to study. We’d be one of a huge number
You just said:
And:
Logically, you understand that with two vastly different times scales over that much distance…
The chances of overlap is infinitly small?
Maybe they passed by before our solar system even formed. Maybe after our sun burns out they stroll by.
But why would they choose to spend their time wandering around in a spaceship anyways?
Even if they had instant travel making distance and time absolutely meaningless. If life is so plentiful and there’s so many that are that advanced, exponentially more at our level, and innumerable planets supporting more basic forms of life…
Why would they care about us?
We’re one in trillions to them.
Quick edit:
Back to the point, in that scenario we’d never be “no contact” because they wouldn’t care.
Any one planet wouldnt even be a rounding error.
We wouldn’t be one of the few they want to study. We’d be one of a huge number