Why no advanced civilizations have visited Earth
Humans are just ants
The Earth was born about 4.55 billion years ago, and over a long period, life on Earth has gone through a process from nothing to something, from simple to complex, and finally evolved into humans with higher intelligence.
From the known laws of nature, the best way for a species to survive and continue better is for its population to keep spreading outward, so that the risk of extinction can be effectively reduced, and since the carrying capacity of the Earth and the habitable time are limited, humans must plan for spreading to other planets.
Modern humans have already started to make preliminary attempts to leave the Earth, and we are optimistic that with the continuous improvement of technology, humans will sooner or later get out of the Earth and spread deeper into the universe step by step, and then become an advanced civilization that spans the galaxy. How long will it take for humans to achieve this goal? 10,000 years should not be enough, but if it is 100 million years, it should be more than enough.
Don't forget, the Milky Way is a huge galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars, and known observations show that even a conservative estimate, there are more than 300 million rocky planets in the galaxy like Earth, which are located in the habitable zone of stars, and among them, many are hundreds of millions or even billions of years older than Earth.
So reasonable speculation is that life should be widespread in the galaxy, and some of them are even older than life on Earth, and this means that there should be quite a few intelligent civilizations in the galaxy that are older than us humans, and their technology level can be hundreds of millions or even billions of years ahead of humans.
If this is true, then these ancient intelligent civilizations should have developed into advanced civilizations across the galaxy by now, and even if we humans can't find them, they should come to visit Earth, but as far as we know, this has not happened.
Why have no advanced civilizations visited Earth? There is no definite answer to this question, and people can only speculate on it. One of the hypotheses is that advanced civilizations may not be interested in Earth and humans on Earth at all, perhaps in their eyes, humans are just like ants.
The view is that for humans the Earth is undoubtedly the most special and precious planet in the universe because the natural conditions on the Earth are close to perfect to meet the needs of human survival, and the Earth is also the only home for humans in the universe.
However, for advanced civilizations, the natural conditions on Earth are not the slightest bit attracted to them, after all, "free from the limits of the planets, long-term survival in space" is a necessary skill for advanced civilizations, so in their eyes, Earth is just an ordinary "big rock In their eyes, the Earth is just an ordinary "boulder", and this "boulder" is everywhere in the universe, there is no value to explore.
Some people may ask, there are all kinds of life on Earth, there are also humans with higher intelligence, how there is no value to explore it?
As mentioned earlier, there are hundreds of millions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy that have the natural conditions to nurture life, so it is a reasonable assumption that life has evolved on many planets, and even many planets have evolved intelligent beings.
The idea is that the path of "intelligent life to advanced civilization" is full of difficulties and obstacles, and there may be some extremely difficult bottlenecks to break through so a large number of intelligent life in the galaxy are extinct due to the deterioration of natural conditions on their home planets before they can develop into an advanced civilization.
In this case, only a very small number of intelligent beings in the galaxy can eventually stand out, and even in the entire galaxy there are only a few advanced civilizations, while the rest of the intelligent beings have either disappeared from the universe or is in the "primitive stage" can not be separated from the home planet.
If this is true, then humans are undoubtedly a "primitive civilization", and in addition to humans, there are also a large number of "primitive civilizations" in the galaxy similar to humans, in the eyes of advanced civilizations, such as humans In the eyes of advanced civilizations, "primitive civilizations" like humans are just like ants, they already know enough.
With our human ability, we can indeed reach any place on the surface of the Earth, but the surface of Earth still has a lot of humans who rarely ventured into the region, if it is a long way to a place that we are not interested in the slightest, to visit a group of ants we have long been used to, then it is estimated that no one is willing to go.
By the same token, the distance in the universe is often calculated in light years, even for advanced civilizations, running such a long way will also be consumed, so if there is no suitable reason, they simply can not come all the way to visit the Earth, on the other hand, even if they "pass by" from the Earth, it is likely that they will not stop, after all, when When we humans are in a hurry, we usually don't stop just because there is a group of ants on the side of the road.
There are many other hypotheses, for example, some people think that the so-called advanced civilization does not exist, and some people think that the advanced civilization is deliberately hidden for various reasons, we will have the opportunity to talk more about it, so I will not list them here.
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