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Same reason we do stuff to prevent bird strikes of airplanes. It's just practical, and considerate of nature. They aren't vulnerable to our weapons, the same

Same reason we do stuff to prevent bird strikes of airplanes. It's just practical, and considerate of nature. They aren't vulnerable to our weapons, the same way gorillas throwing rocks can't hurt the jeep. All sci-fi, except for maybe Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos, assumes that we have something that makes us important enough for the Universe to care about Humans as anything more than a biological curiosity. I think the "we're just wildlife to them" idea would be a very tough metaphysical pill for most people to swallow.

titzer 5y ago
If we posit the level of technological advancement necessary to travel between stars, it makes sense to me that if they wanted to go undetected, they could easily do so. Putting lights on their spaceships so that thousands or millions of people notice seems extremely implausible to me. It rather seems more "considerate of nature" to watch and not disrupt by essentially studying as invisibly as possible.