And even if these aliens have cracked FTL travel, who's ever going to find our little planet on the ass end of some mediocre galaxy, with an EM emissions bubble that has only covered 100 light years so far? Needle in a haystack.
And even if these aliens have cracked FTL travel, who's ever going to find our little planet on the ass end of some mediocre galaxy, with an EM emissions bubble that has only covered 100 light years so far? Needle in a haystack.
They could have been here already before modern humans even existed.
Perhaps it's much more likely to have happened elsewhere in the galaxy 4 more billion years from now. If I remember correctly, stars with our particular properties haven't been around for too long.
I recommend looking into cool worlds lab since you seem to like inferring from the numbers.
Luna is sort of made from the Earth. And it's so close that Earth has a stronger pull on it than Sun.
So we have set foot on another stellar body, sure. But we also... kind of haven't.
And then we had to retreat from it anyway. Homo sapiens, hunter champions, arrived at an uninhabited body and were outmatched.
Way to go, smartest species we know of. You've done jack shit.