A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.

[Pyrrho]

I was thinking of it from the perspective of someone in another solar system. Before getting here, they (if they existed) could see some of our radio/TV transmissions, and know that it isn't worthwhile to make the trip. And although I have no delusions in thinking I will ever leave the solar system, if I were to do so, I would certainly not return.

That probably sounds wrong for how my life is. I am quite happy in my little bit of where I am, and do not long for escape. But it is right for my opinion of the world as a whole. Think of all of the batshit crazy beliefs that people have, and then tell me that you, as an alien with such great technology that you can visit other solar systems, that this one is the one you would visit. One with no life at all would be better.

They would miss so much of earth's beauty that mankind hasn't yet completely destroyed though...

Yes, but there is undoubtedly beauty to be found in many solar systems. And in solar systems without life, they would not have to deal with a species that, for the most part, believes primitive superstitious nonsense.

Think about how humans would likely react to an alien species visiting us. There would be all kinds of crazy things that people would do. Would you want to visit a place where you would get the kind of reception that one would get from humans? If not, then you wouldn't choose to visit this solar system either. Or, at least, you would want to avoid visiting earth. If you wanted to watch people squirm from afar, you could set up a base on Mars. And maybe send the Mars probes back to earth, reprogramed to send their signals to Mars instead of to the earth. But that is something that would not interest me; I would rather not torture primitive beings if it isn't necessary to do so, so if the aliens resembled me, they would just go someplace else and not bother with interacting with humans at all.