> Harvest us for dinner - fairly inconceivable.

Probably for fear of biological incomaptibility or virulent germs.

> Destroy us - more likely.
...
> General consensus is that any race able to develop intergalactic or even
> intra galactic travel technology would not sensibly have war and
> destruction and domination as any part of their viewpoint.

You are contradicting yourself in two adjacent paragraphs.

The general consensus is that they did not ask them (the ones who would
come).

I think that because of the difficulties involved, such as distance etc,
unless we are unfortunate enough to have relatively close neighbors who
are at a stage where they travel to conquer & trade, and get here before
we get there, only someone much superior/advanced is likely to contact us
(if they bother), and then it will not be to conquer/trade. And evolution
being what it is, it is very likely that someone beyond the conquer/trade
stage has been in it for a while and has learned some lessons. It would be
interesting to know what lessons. So imho, the low intelligent life
density in the immediate neighborhood is a good thing.

Get well, Russell.

Peter

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