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Originally posted by pavil
Why would 1,000's of races be willing to confront another race over puny little us here on Earth? Are we that special as a species or does the Earth contain something that extraordinary to be worth it?
I just don't see the rationale of many supposedly higher advanced civilizations being willing to die for some primitive primates in a solar system far from their own. You give us too much credit.
Explain the rationale for this behavior, then I'll consider it.
Originally posted by GeeGee
Maybe because they're our creators, and they care about us?
Or maybe they're getting into a war for their own reasons, and it has nothing to do with us.
Originally posted by MrdDstrbr
[I don't think it's "1000s of races", more like a few dozen or hundred.
I think the idea is to put us on the path of Peace now, before we develop a military presence strong enough to go out into Space and attack other civilizations.
Originally posted by pavil
As for your second opinion, then why not just blow up the planet and be done with this battle? This surely can't be the major front of their war or else we would see much more.
Originally posted by pavil
So either they care about us so much they are willing to die for us or we are just insignificent to them, neither makes sense.
So 1,000 of races created the life that exists on Earth? Not buying that, sorry, try again. Why is all the DNA relatively similar then? I would expect a far greater variety of genetic diversity if that were the case.
As for your second opinion, then why not just blow up the planet and be done with this battle? This surely can't be the major front of their war or else we would see much more. I would be quite sure that if this theory was true, that the aliens would consider us as advanced at we consider Lemurs. If that were the case, than why all the secrecy from the aliens, are they afraid to scare the poor little creatures (us)?? Your logic just doesn't lend itself to simple answers to these questions.
Originally posted by pavil
Don't you think all these highly evolved interplanetary / interstellar races with huge invisible mother-ships could deal with a few primitive spaceships from Earth?
It just doesn't make sense that so many advanced civilizations would care that much about us to battle over us. You give Humanity and the Earth far too much credit.
Originally posted by pavil
Again, why would there be 100 of interstellar aliens in our solar system? Why do they want the Earth? If they do, why not get rid of it's inhabitants (us) then? It's just not logical, even for this primitive primate, to think that so many far greater advanced civilizations are concerned / interested / wanting the Earth and it's inhabitants.
Originally posted by eau rouge
Originally posted by pavil
Please don't give me that 'inscrutable aliens, you can't fathom their reasons" load. Either they want us or they want the Earth, if it's not either of those then why would 100 of them come?