> If you've seen a million planets evolve life, you might not want to gather any more data. > We're probably just not very interesting. Yet we humans continue

> If you've seen a million planets evolve life, you might not want to gather any more data. > We're probably just not very interesting. Yet we humans continue to explore our solar system and find all sorts of things intriguing, from exo-geology to weather patterns in other planets, to the life cycle of the most insignificant beetle. I think it is far too early to be making assumptions about what could motivate a hypothetical alien probe to explore this planet.