Galactic Center is roughly 30,000 LY from earth btw. Otherwise I tend to agree with your point.
Lets imagine that we are the space faring species and we happen upon a primitive "by our space faring civilization standards" society. And lets assume our main reason to go to the stars is expansion and resource acquisition. (I can't think of any more besides exploration that comes with both anyway)
If we went to the occupied planet the local population would invariable put up some kind of fight. Even if we look past the moral failings we would invaraibly have at wiping the natives out, it would obviously cost some amount of resources to deal with. Why expend those resources when you can just go to next star over that doesn't have a native population that would fight back?
Resource acquisition is 2 fold problem. 1st problem is exact same as above but heck even without figure that into account gravity itself just stat4es it's easier to get resources out of Oort cloud or asteroid belt then off a planet that has extra gravity that you would need to expend fuel to escape. Simple economics says that if you have 2 gold bars, one you can pick up by hand the other you need to have huge machines to reach, picking the one up by hand is more cost effective.
Aliens probably all around us, it's just not worth their time to interact with us. Sure you hear stories about people getting abducted every now and then. Us as humans also go tip cows every now and then. Same thing, just some punk alien playing with the primitives.
It's like encountering other human societies. Every time we interact with them, one of two things happen.
Either 1) we offer them a better way and they do their stupid savage bullshit and eventually we have to shoot them, and then history vilifies us for all time, or 2) we leave them to remain savages, and they build a mythology about how all of their savage idiot problems are our fault, and they do their stupid savage bullshit, but now our own population won't just let us shoot them, and we're locked into a eternity with the middle east as our fucking problem, somehow.
So even beyond the Resource problem, they're (we're, in the case of any other space nation meeting us,) idiotic savages who just aren't worth the effort.
Fun fact: when the first Euro explorers first starting checking out African states, they found that several tribes were eating each other. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) an Englishman scholar & explorer who could speak 25 languages, was the first European to enter Muslim city in Harar In Africa without being executed.
They were absolute savages back then. Seems not much has changed today...
Galactic Center is roughly 30,000 LY from earth btw. Otherwise I tend to agree with your point.
Lets imagine that we are the space faring species and we happen upon a primitive "by our space faring civilization standards" society. And lets assume our main reason to go to the stars is expansion and resource acquisition. (I can't think of any more besides exploration that comes with both anyway)
If we went to the occupied planet the local population would invariable put up some kind of fight. Even if we look past the moral failings we would invaraibly have at wiping the natives out, it would obviously cost some amount of resources to deal with. Why expend those resources when you can just go to next star over that doesn't have a native population that would fight back?
Resource acquisition is 2 fold problem. 1st problem is exact same as above but heck even without figure that into account gravity itself just stat4es it's easier to get resources out of Oort cloud or asteroid belt then off a planet that has extra gravity that you would need to expend fuel to escape. Simple economics says that if you have 2 gold bars, one you can pick up by hand the other you need to have huge machines to reach, picking the one up by hand is more cost effective.
Aliens probably all around us, it's just not worth their time to interact with us. Sure you hear stories about people getting abducted every now and then. Us as humans also go tip cows every now and then. Same thing, just some punk alien playing with the primitives.
It's like encountering other human societies. Every time we interact with them, one of two things happen.
Either 1) we offer them a better way and they do their stupid savage bullshit and eventually we have to shoot them, and then history vilifies us for all time, or 2) we leave them to remain savages, and they build a mythology about how all of their savage idiot problems are our fault, and they do their stupid savage bullshit, but now our own population won't just let us shoot them, and we're locked into a eternity with the middle east as our fucking problem, somehow.
So even beyond the Resource problem, they're (we're, in the case of any other space nation meeting us,) idiotic savages who just aren't worth the effort.
Fun fact: when the first Euro explorers first starting checking out African states, they found that several tribes were eating each other. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) an Englishman scholar & explorer who could speak 25 languages, was the first European to enter Muslim city in Harar In Africa without being executed.
They were absolute savages back then. Seems not much has changed today...
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