What purpose would aliens have for visiting earth?

Why would they do that?

It's a lot easier to smash our civilisation a bit than outright genocide us.

>curiosity

>trade
know-how and technologies rather than resources
>extermination
the galaxy is too small for two intelligent races

They're looking for qt aliens to fug.

Would humans be qt enough for alieums to fug?

Interesting question, actually (surprisingly). We'd likely share quite a few similar features, as the manipulation of tools is pretty much vital for a space-faring civilisation. So they'd probably have arms of some description. It makes sense for all the vital organs to be bunched in the same place as one going will kill you anyway, so they'd likely have a torso-analogue, and if they have any sort of analogue for bones or chitin it would certainly cover this "torso." It's probable that it's from this armoured organ box that their arms would come, too. In terms of sensing the world around them, it makes little evolutionary sense for their sensing organs to be fixed in place on their torsos, so they would likely have some sort of head-analogue with a bunch of sensing organs attached to it. Locomotion is very tough to call. They could be like us where the ability to grasp comes from our form of locomotion, i.e. swinging through the trees, or they could have developed graspers independently of their locomotion. But chances are, their locomotion apparatus would also be connected to the thing with all their vital organs in it.

So we have aliens that are probably going to be some sort of blob with an amount of limbs or tentacles and some form of locomotion, as well as something recognisable as a head.

So it would probably be about as fuckable to us as an intelligent chimp that can speak perfect English, and chances are its instincts towards us would be similar. But hey, if our societies mingled for long enough, edge cases of interspecies romance could become common enough to be accepted. And there would definitely be porn, at least on our side, almost immediately.

>it makes little evolutionary sense for their sensing organs to be fixed in place on their torsos
???
it makes fine sense.
Octopuses and other mollusks get by fine

>actually (surprisingly). We'd likely share quite a few similar features, as the manipulation of tools is pretty much vital for a space-faring civilisation.
nope

>implying you can make a sentient species join your empire

If we were non sentient I would say yes.

Fair enough

Explain? I'm not talking about giant space whales, I'm talking about planet-based life.

>Implying we would have a choice

Not that user but Dolphins are as intelligent if not more intelligent that chimps and the only thing holding them back is the lack of limbs
One has to remember that a "limb" can be any prehensile appendage.
maybe one species uses their tongue as graspers
maybe it uses its tail as the grasper, or its mouth
maybe one species uses their vagina and penis to grab and manipulate things.
I think thats actually where dolphins may be going.

Aliens have propably observed us already without us knowing it.

Think about it: we have ways to observe animals without them noticing it. If you walk into a forest and try to look at animals, they would run away. But if you set up a camera in a forest, most animals won't notice it. You can hook the camera on some wireless network and observe the animals from your home without them ever knowing There are also ways to completely fool animals' senses: put some bee pheromone on your hand and bees will flock to it, thinking it's a queen. There is of beetle species that became endangered because males were keep trying to bang beer bottles that had the same textures as them.

So if there are civilizations much more advanced than us, they are probably observing us in similar ways. Either they have technology to remotely observe us (they might not even have to physically send some camera or whatever here) or to fool our senses and blend into Earth's creatures.

As for why they don't try to contact us: it's probably cheaper to just remotely view us. It also might be impossible. Or that to them, we are on the same level as ants from our perspective.

perhaps they evolved as a consciousness or a realm jumper or something not mechanically anchored to the rules of our part of the valley

you want me to give you my imagination? fuck you pay me

>What if this race never has the ability to hear and found a race of musical professionals?

>bugs unsuccessfully tried to hump human beer bottles that looked like bugs
>aliens might be doing the same thing with us only in a more advanced way

Girls who rejected me confirmed for alien spies. It finally makes sense!

If the Earth were ever visited by an alien, it would most likely be in the form of a "Von Neumann probe": a self-replicating machine designed for space exploration. This machine could either be benevolent or hostile. It all depends on the intentions of the creator. The probes could be designed to "uplift" less advanced species, wipe them out, or merely study them.

What about trading for unique stones like lapis lazuli or things like spices and fruits.

Maybe they really like organic coffee or maybe they want to sell us something.

why not create intelligence through ionisation pulses? comm systems, why would technology evolve along this linear mechanical line when there are other options out there, and how far does the human relay network extend out from earth anyway? would alians be aware of this, would they bother to bypass it, would the first instance be a seed that bypasses all survileance tech and just in a blip implodes our part of the universe in an instant, wiped?

They would have mercy of us if they see that we can control ourselves having interplanetary technology and massive destruction weapons.

Yes but they must be so weak as us once , if they have etic they would be responsible with life in development process

Protip: [spoiler] you're already doing that, it's just fun to forget [/spoiler]

They would come here to learn about us and the rest of our planet's ecosystem.
That is literally the only reason for them to come here.

>What purpose would aliens have for visiting earth?
To fug.

They real life to into doujins as part of their difficult to understand alien motives.

To see how extraterrestrials (us) have developed differently from them. Also it's cool.

>Let's have a thought experiment.
>Let's say players exist and are smart enough to travel between servers. What purpose would they have to visit this game?
>Here are some things they wouldent be here for.
>>As a resource
>Their are so many games out there that don't have memes but also all of our digital resources that picking the one with mathematical formations is dumb. We'd be more valuable at level 60 then 1.
>Here are some reasons why they might
>>they are hedonists
>They are traveling the internet to experience any and every cardnel pleasure they can and possibly attempting to obtain new ones. What if this people never has the ability to love and found a place of 2D waifus?
>>they're cruel
>Unlikey since a person like this would probably kill itself before ever landing of their pussy equivalent, but who knows.
>>They're diplomats
>They are here to talk or study us. They may not want us a part of whatever orginization they are apart of but they came to let us know they are here.

The Dark Forest Postulate

To obtain the finest cup of coffee.

A E S T H E T I C S

Why do you all asume that "aliens" would be humanoid in the first place?

What if they were parasitic or just monsters? Ever thought of that?

>>As a resource
Maybe they are so advanced they don't even need our resources. They can make their own.
Unless they consider other exotic things as resources like souls and human memories

They'd help us, that is for sure.

Nothing because WE'RE ALL ALONE

>finally reach Europa or other icy moon of Jupiter
>drill through ice for months
>disperse submarine drones with light fixtures
>not at first, but soon we come across a few microbial and nano-creatures
>sort of look like we'd expect them
>even later we start to see more larger, more complex life
>sort of look like our deep oceanic fish
>just kind of different
>keep swimming around
>keep finding relatively normal looking animals living out their normal lives
>really nothing extraordinary or bizarre
>public interest wanes in as much as public interest is concerned with our own sea creatures
>public support dips for another 40 years before we venture further out into space

Post yfw convergent evolution fucks up our space program

I didnt. And in order for them to go ftl, they need to be a little more smart than monster movie aliens

There might be intelligent live completely void of curiosity, although I assume it would be rare for them to advance much (let alone develop interstellar space travel) if they lack curiosity.

>implying we wont find shit like this

Well, think about what humans would do in the same situation; i.e. what we're doing now.

We're basically just sending shit out looking for literally anything, and if we find signs of life it would immediately intrigue us and prompt us to find out more, simply out of pure curiosity and the desire to learn. Assuming they're sentient, I see no reason to think it wouldn't be the same for an extraterrestrial species. Maybe they're just looking for kindred spirits like we are.

Of course that's no prediction of what the result would be if we actually did come into contact, but I feel like that would be the primary driving force: the search for answers. Hell, that's the primary reason humanity does anything at all. If another species becomes sentient I would think their drive would be the same.

>Well, think about what humans would do in the same situation; i.e. what we're doing now.
We would exploit their natural and labor resources while claiming to protect their 'native rights and self-determination', and send 'gifts' (funds). Moreover, under such basis all the great powers would compete against each others and turning them into a mess of failed society. Congrats, they have now joined the global human society.