“The idea that advanced alien intelligences would be found signalling with radio waves or light is, to my mind, like imagining the physicists of Earth suddenly taking an interest in communicating with earthworms by farting.

In the same way that very few of your own species has any interest in contact with beetles or ants, advanced intelligences are interested in other -intelligences-… and yours not only doesn’t yet qualify, it is still (largely) more disease than asset — and attacks you, your world, and everything that moves — including these visitors, should they be confused enough to seek you out — with few exceptions.

Furthermore, I suspect that genuinely advanced life forms might detest machines, and with good reason. If they did, as most of nature actually does, they would avoid your world like the plague.”

— an anonymous informant