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Originally posted by Socks
As humans, if we found a planet with lights on it all over the place, and then sent an unmanned beacon ship to gather more evidence into the atmosphere, and saw that it wasnŽt shot down immediately, the first thing weŽd try to do is make contact. Why any other race with flying ship capabilities would not want to make contact with us is absurd.
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It may be absurd in the sense that a lot of things that are facts don't make sense. If there is a "they," they could be sending probes or ships our way for all kinds of different reasons, some good, some bad.
We haven't even made a lot of effort to explore intelligence we just recently discovered on our own planet, and which we would find much more easy to understand. Gorillas can learn and use sign language, and through this we have discovered that they have human-like emotions (love and loss and enjoying playing jokes, for example). Parrots can form meaningful sentences and display knowledge of what we "earth people" call concepts (color, shape, "grab the red circle," etc.).
You give us (and by extention extraterrestrial species) far too much credit. You've been watching too much Star Trek.