The_Sage <a.b@c.com> wrote in message news:<ac4jm0p8dpublea7feh88t3t8ueerifs2h@4ax.com>...

Maybe the aliens must be idiots! Think about it: would you be willing to buy
into the story that an intellectually superior race that could travel
interstellar distances, would go through all the trouble to come to our planet
just to put on a second-rate airshow for our viewing pleasure? 

Well, I never seen a extraterestrial airshow, but from what I've
heard, they're anything but "second rate".
 

Besides, if there really are aliens visiting us out there, why won't they visit me? 

Maybe that's what some monkey in Africa, or dolphin in the ocean is
thinking right now about you?

I'm willing and available and unlike many of the people they've been
abducting so far, I'm not a complete idiot because I can actually think for
myself. I'm not afraid to relate with alien sentient beings, no matter what  > they look like. Not only that, I'm smart enough to take the time to stop and  > ask for some evidence of my abduction. Say like asking for samples of their  > native food (something that won't spoil right away) or some harmless         > technical artifact. 

Your monkey wants a breadstick to show the other monkey's.
Wait, that's "assuming" (see below) you understand and have the
capacity to speak "monkey language".
Perhaps the alien astronuats aren't versed/experts in zoology just
yet?

The problem with the Fermi Paradox is that it is based on false assumptions.
They act as though a far more intelligent race would act just as stupid as we
do...

   "I would like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It 
   came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're 
   not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet, instinctively develops an 
   equilibrium with it's surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You 
   move to an area and you multiply and multiply, until every natural resource 
   is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There
   is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know
   what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet; you
   are a plague and we are the cure" (Agent Smith, THE MATRIX, Warner Brothers, 
   1999)

One plauge killing another? May the best plauge win, or at least
co-habitate.
 

Obviously, a species intelligent enough to traverse light years of space would
be a species that learned to not destroy itself and it's environment; a species
that would not want to spread to another part of the galaxy like a plague --
those are things WE humans would do if we could travel through space, but that
doesn't imply everyone else in the universe thinks like we do.

   >I think a humanity spreading throughout the galaxy would be at least a small
   >measure more of a good thing than a bad thing.

I disagree since I wouldn't want tourists ruining the solar system with their
graffiti or trash or having to put up with a 7-11 on every corner of the galaxy.
I want the solar system to be pure and untouched and pristine, the same as the
day when I first saw it.

And just how much trash had to be created in order for you to be able
see the pristine solar system?
I wouldn't worry about it too much, as the universe is so big and
expanding at a rate infinitely beyond our rate of 7-11 production. But
we'll create some more garbage so you can keep an eye on it anyway.