Have to also consider the very earth centric attitude of the Dark Forest theory assumptions.
Earth is all we've known, and it's so perfect (though we ruin it daily). It has the right atmospheric mixture. The right gravity. The right seasons and rotation. All becuase we originated here. And even then we have to live near water because our biology demands it.
So alien comes along, sees earth, probably recoils at it as we might to Venus. Our earth would have a terrible unbreathable atmospheric mixture, gravity too high or low. If they were explorers of some kind motivated as some of us are the emotive desire to discover, they might examine it a bit. If they were conquerers motivated as some of us are by desires of posession and domination, then they may still pass it by cause of the extreme difficulties in holding a location incompatible to their life form as a colonial state.
But, it makes good fiction. There was a book series call The Tripods. Had that situation where the aliens couldn't live in our atmosphere, invaded anyway.
You know now that I think of it, most of the alien invasion literature and movies are from the major colonial powers of the past couple centuries. US and UK. Since a lot of other country has had to live invasion and occupation it probably isn't a popular topic in fiction. But we do it as either a kind of subconcious self reflection, since it rarely seems to be actual self critique, or an ackowledgement we do it and what if the bigger bully comes around and does it to us?
Have to also consider the very earth centric attitude of the Dark Forest theory assumptions.
Earth is all we've known, and it's so perfect (though we ruin it daily). It has the right atmospheric mixture. The right gravity. The right seasons and rotation. All becuase we originated here. And even then we have to live near water because our biology demands it.
So alien comes along, sees earth, probably recoils at it as we might to Venus. Our earth would have a terrible unbreathable atmospheric mixture, gravity too high or low. If they were explorers of some kind motivated as some of us are the emotive desire to discover, they might examine it a bit. If they were conquerers motivated as some of us are by desires of posession and domination, then they may still pass it by cause of the extreme difficulties in holding a location incompatible to their life form as a colonial state.
But, it makes good fiction. There was a book series call The Tripods. Had that situation where the aliens couldn't live in our atmosphere, invaded anyway.
You know now that I think of it, most of the alien invasion literature and movies are from the major colonial powers of the past couple centuries. US and UK. Since a lot of other country has had to live invasion and occupation it probably isn't a popular topic in fiction. But we do it as either a kind of subconcious self reflection, since it rarely seems to be actual self critique, or an ackowledgement we do it and what if the bigger bully comes around and does it to us?