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Your comment is full of antropomorphisms. I don't believe in their presence on earth, but you can't "disprove" them like that. Still, you can find explanations

Your comment is full of antropomorphisms. I don't believe in their presence on earth, but you can't "disprove" them like that. Still, you can find explanations fitting the observations. Like the ant analogy, a scientist is not going to try to communicate with ants. They want to observe without disturbing the ants too much, even if the scientist doesn't take too much precautions to make themselves completely invisible.

throwaway11460 3y ago
What? Of course they would try to communicate if the ants showed any smallest capability or interest in doing so. See people trying to communicate with dolphins, monkeys, chimps, octopuses, cats, dogs, crows, ...
- worksonmine 3y ago
  You're looking at it from your perspective. Humans could be completely useless to them and they could be here for some resource. Loggers in the amazon don't try to communicate with the bugs around them, they do what they're there to do. It's not given that other life forms would be interested in us, they might've learned what they needed a long time ago. And now we're just part of their environment. Or they realize we're too stupid and would just try to kill them so they don't.
- The_Colonel 3y ago
  > What? Of course they would try to communicate if the ants showed any smallest capability or interest in doing so. Ants do communicate, a lot in fact (chemically). How else would they coordinate the colony? Yet I don't remember hearing about scientists trying to communicate with them, announce our presence, or exchange ideas.
  - throwaway11460 3y ago
    That's more of instinct than intelligent communication, though. Hard to exchange ideas when the vocabulary is a pheromone that makes a drone want to work or fuck. I'd be the first person trying to exchange ideas if it was in any way possible - seriously, in a scientific capacity. Ants fascinate me. But there really is no way to communicate.
- GoblinSlayer 3y ago
  You can't get much information from a single human as there are no encyclopedically educated humans anymore. The best way to gather information is to download our internets and books.

throwaway11460 3y ago

What? Of course they would try to communicate if the ants showed any smallest capability or interest in doing so. See people trying to communicate with dolphins, monkeys, chimps, octopuses, cats, dogs, crows, ...

worksonmine 3y ago
You're looking at it from your perspective. Humans could be completely useless to them and they could be here for some resource. Loggers in the amazon don't try to communicate with the bugs around them, they do what they're there to do. It's not given that other life forms would be interested in us, they might've learned what they needed a long time ago. And now we're just part of their environment. Or they realize we're too stupid and would just try to kill them so they don't.
The_Colonel 3y ago
> What? Of course they would try to communicate if the ants showed any smallest capability or interest in doing so. Ants do communicate, a lot in fact (chemically). How else would they coordinate the colony? Yet I don't remember hearing about scientists trying to communicate with them, announce our presence, or exchange ideas.
- throwaway11460 3y ago
  That's more of instinct than intelligent communication, though. Hard to exchange ideas when the vocabulary is a pheromone that makes a drone want to work or fuck. I'd be the first person trying to exchange ideas if it was in any way possible - seriously, in a scientific capacity. Ants fascinate me. But there really is no way to communicate.
GoblinSlayer 3y ago
You can't get much information from a single human as there are no encyclopedically educated humans anymore. The best way to gather information is to download our internets and books.