The TECHNOLOGY needed to get here is so staggering and yet we think such an advanced civilization would give a #### about us. That’s the movies folks.
Read up on HOW DIFFICULT if not impossible it is for us to get to them. Why is vice versa so believable then?
Nobody’s been here. Nobody’s ever gonna be here.
It’s just us 7 billion folks on our own :)
My first thought is always theological...since, like CS Lewis, I think only humans were created in God’s image, and fallen, what alien would want to come where Satan lives and will someday rule for a short time?
I loved Lewis’ space trilogy.