If anyone finds this perspective intriguing, you may be interested in the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the story, a character pro

If anyone finds this perspective intriguing, you may be interested in the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the story, a character proposes that humans are effectively like frightened forest critters with no ability to understand the nature of the seemingly magical rubbish that extraterrestrial picnickers could have left behind after a brief stop on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic#Plot_introduction_and_setting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic#Plot_introduct...