A British ship floats up to an uninhabited Pacific atoll in 1750, people get off, grab some coconuts, beach the ship, wait for the tide to go out, make some re

A British ship floats up to an uninhabited Pacific atoll in 1750, people get off, grab some coconuts, beach the ship, wait for the tide to go out, make some repairs and are gone the next day and no other ships stop by for the next 100yr because the first ship noted in their logs that the atoll was devoid of anything more useful than the beach. From the seagull's point of view that may as well be a UFO sighting but with big white men instead of little green men. If there's a lot of life out there in the universe odds of any one planet (ours) being interesting or low. If aliens show up it's likely for some short lived menial purpose. Like stopping to grab some nitrogen or measure our moon for their survey or whatever. I agree we probably aren't being visited by aliens. But if we I suspect they wouldn't be all that interested in us.