What do you think about this, nerds?

>>7808774
Our first contact will be by radio or long distance communication, if it ever happens. It's arrogant to think any alien race would visit our planet at all.

>>7808786
This. I highly doubt ultra-intelligent beings with the capacity for interstellar travel will simply barge into a new planet and start pulling fish out of the water. If contact is ever made, it will be a long-distance communication, perhaps swapping of information represented in binary. Then, realistically, that's where it would end.

>>7808786
>>7808801
This self-hating hivemind is quite annoying, to be honest. We have Ph D's who devote their lives to study a determined species and you are trying to tell me that "highly scientifically-developed civilizations" won't give a fuck about a whole new planet full of new organisms to research?

>>7808810
More than likely a civilization with the capabilities mentioned in the OP will understand that the most logical course of action, rather than risking their own lives and resources, will be to establish communication with us first.