I believe if life is common than there must of been at least one group of aliens that at least attempted to colonize it self everywhere in space?

Unless humans are a extreme anomaly and that most other aliens don’t really care about space exploration, and just focus on their home planet.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I agree. The overwhelming majority of creatures on this very planet are completely different from us, if there are aliens anywhere ”near“ us they will be absolutely nothing like we can imagine. We share common ancestors with every life form on Earth, we’ve evolved in comparatively similar environments and yet we are nothing like a tree. You can’t even begin to imagine what a creature would look and act like that evolved on an entirely different planet, completely independently from anything we‘ve ever known.

    Trying to predict what alien civilizations would do is like trying to imagine a new color. We have a staggering sample size of one (1) intelligent civilization, ourselves, from which any predictions stem. It’s fun to speculate, but imo it’s ultimately completely pointless because if they’re out there, they’re absolutely nothing like we can expect.