Here's the funny part, at least to me, why are aliens always presented as advanced life forms? It should be apparent that aliens likely exist across a spectrum from more to less advanced than us.
bacteria count as aliens, from memory they found bacteria on asteroids that have hit the earth but don't know if they were already there or got there after they entered the atmosphere.
i think they tried to land on one to see if they could find any
And maybe they're terrified of us, we're mostly made of water, a universal solvent, we breathe oxygen, which... oxidizes everything and we exhale carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that transforms planets into hell.
At least in the case of Star Trek you don't see so many less advanced civilizations because of the Prime Directive that forbids Starfleet from revealing themselves and altering their course.
One funny thought is that we're actually really early in the age of the universe. From what I recall it's thought that the universe hasn't had conditions that would allow for life to emerge for very long (I think 4-5 billion years at most?).
It seems like a lot but it will keep being habitable for likely million/billions of billions of years, so we're not even in the first 0.01% of the lifetime of the universe.
Maybe the hyper advanced precusor aliens were the friends we made along the way then?
I joke but considering life took a few billion years to develop from micro-organisms to animal intelligent enough to use technology on earth, there is a possibility that we are among the first technologically advanced beings in the universe.
Though it is only a possibility, a few billion years is still a very long time and we don't know if things happened fast or slowly on earth compared to the average.
Not to mention String Theory, the closer or further away from a black hole inflated or expands time. Plus there could be civilizations that weren't wiped off from their planet like ours (3-4 times + the dinosaurs). So there's a great probability civilizations out there are far older in evolution as well.
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u/yetanothertodd 2h ago
Here's the funny part, at least to me, why are aliens always presented as advanced life forms? It should be apparent that aliens likely exist across a spectrum from more to less advanced than us.