[Starboard]

Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.

[JayAr36]

They have been searching for years to find the intelligent life down here. So far - - NADA!

[circlecity]

“Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.”

I’m reminded of the Monty Python movie “Life of Brian” where you had the drunk aliens joyriding around over Jerusalem.

[PghBaldy]

Humans study earthworms, lesbians, cacti, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, jellyfish, slime mold, boy bands, ... All kinds of things that may not really be important to our existence.

[marktwain]

Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.

Why do you assume they would have to be sentient?

Why would you assume what makes sense to us would make sense to UAPs?

They might be a purely natural phenomina, which in rare circumstances appears to be "controlled".

[PIF]

You are assuming they came from some distant star. There is more than likely a fair chance they are from here and never left.

One has to assume that in 4.5 billion years only one intelligent species arose, and assume that is because of evolution which works very very slooow.

That is not taking into account that we do not know with any certainty the origins of our civilization. Why did the Sumerians count base 60 which is more efficient than our base 10, and where did those notions come from?

[Cold Heart]

Maybe we are in their backyard and they are tired of it:)

[Jewbacca]

“Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.“

Perhaps they are from the renown publication Intersteller Geographic and taking picture of the curious savages.

Or perhaps they are scouting for slave labor, food, or space.

Or perhaps they conduct routine threat assessments.

[DannyTN]

"Joyriding in such a place makes no sense."

Obviously you missed today's post about the lady brestfeeding her cat on a plane."

Do you think you can see that just anywhere in the universe? We are a universal attraction.

[Jim Noble]

Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around?

To Serve Man.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.

FORD PREFECT:
Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended. I came for a week and was stranded for fifteen years.

ARTHUR DENT:
But how did you get there in the first place?!

FORD PREFECT:
Oh easy! I got a lift with a Teaser. You don’t know what a Teaser is, I - I’ll tell you. Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.

ARTHUR DENT:
Ah. “Buzz them”?

FORD PREFECT:
Yeah. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul, who no one’s ever going to believe, and then strut up and down in front of ‘em wearing silly antennae on their head and making “beep, beep” noises. Huh, rather childish really.

[Ancesthntr]

“Why would they want to come to our backward “neighborhood” and just buzz around? Joyriding in such a place makes no sense.”

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Unless they’re teenaged aliens getting their kicks of scaring the stupid humans, or showing of for their girlfriends?

[Deaf Smith]

"and just buzz around"

Earth may have in the past been a hunting safari/tourist stop.

Predators vs T-Rex.

Once those were hunted out they went for the less dinosaurs (think of the trains to the Plains to shoot buffalo).

Now the safaris are coming to hunt Bigfoot?

sarc/

[GingisK]

It is like a trip to the zoo.