(May 2, 2015 at 7:15 pm)Alex K Wrote:(May 2, 2015 at 7:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Yet more proof that I am right, that a species intelligent enough for interstellar travel would view visiting the earth as a monumental waste of time. I am already here, and even I wonder if I might be wasting my time conversing with people. Imagine a species capable of interstellar travel, and we can be pretty well sure that they would be certain that the earth is not worth visiting, or wasting any time thinking about.
What is proof of that?
Somehow I think we are going to get lost from the automatic omissions from the quoting system, but it is proof of why aliens would not want to visit us. Basically, people get things very, very wrong, due to not being very smart. This shows up in the way that science is reported and understood by most people (as just one example).
Being not very smart, means we are not worth visiting, by any beings intelligent enough to have figured out interstellar travel.
(Of course, if you were really in Germany, as you claim, then you would see a bit less of this than one sees in the U.S. On the other hand, you say that you went to high school in the U.S., so you should remember how things are here, and should have no trouble understanding why aliens would have a bad opinion of us and not want to travel so very far to visit a bunch of morons. Seriously, would you trouble yourself to engage in interstellar travel to meet us? Seriously, not as a joke!)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
