If intelligent beings lived on other planets, they'd have visited us by now

If they haven't come here yet, they never will. We are alone in the universe.

Why? The Universe is a pretty big place ... some say even bigger that Mall of America.

And what possible reason is there to come here? What signs would their be from half a galaxy away that we're of any interest to anyone?
 
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If they haven't come here yet, they never will. We are alone in the universe.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. ~ Carl Sagan

Just because YOU think "They" haven't been here yet, or more correctly fail to accept evidence "They" may have been here, and/or might still be, doesn't mean "They" haven't/aren't. Or don't exist, or aren't "out there", etc.

The Universe is much larger than you seem able to grasp.
The Universe is much older than you seem to grasp.
Sol~Earth being relative new-comers.

It's doubtful you would know "They" if "They" were here anyway.
And given distances, time factors and others, it's possible "they" just haven't come this way, YET; or aren't planning to; or haven't made it yet.

Only thing your OP confirms is your personal hubris, which is largely delusional.

Bottom-line you have just excluded yourself from serious discussion on a subject like this based upon your ignorance, bias, and prejudice.

Go enjoy your lonely isolation as best you can. Maybe in your next lifetime ...
 
If a person could travel at 1/10th the speed of light it would take about 7750 years to travel to our nearest galaxy.
Soooooo, the likelihood of aliens ever visiting Earth is about zero.
[PART ONE]
Dude ... no intent here to slam or demean you, but you are a bit off and incorrect here. As so often happens, a few words in error can require paragraphs(posts) of corrections, so let's start;

We here on Earth are part of a star and planet system known as the Solar System. Assumed to be rather typical as 'star systems'(star(s) + planet(s)) go, and hence our base template to extrapolate outward to other stars(and planets attached, hence 'systems') near by.

We are located inside the Milky Way Galaxy, supposedly towards an outer rim/edge. Nominally about 27,000 light years distance from the center of our spiral galaxy which is estimated to be from 100,000 to 200,000 light years in diameter.

Traveling at 1/10th the speed of light it will take us about 270,000 years to reach the center of our galaxy. It would take about 730,000 to 1,230,000 years to reach the far edge of our galaxy. As for the nearest galaxy, or nearest star, such will be subject of the next posts.

The Milky Way[a] is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. ...
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The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with an estimated visible diameter of 100,000–200,000 light-years, but only about 1000 light years thick at the spiral arms (more at the bulge). Recent simulations suggest that a dark matter area, also containing some visible stars, may extend up to a diameter of almost 2 million light-years.[12][13] The Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself a component of the Laniakea Supercluster.[25][26]

It is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars[27][28] and at least that number of planets.[29][30] The Solar System is located at a radius of about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center,[3] on the inner edge of the Orion Arm, one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust. ...
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The Milky Way as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. The oldest stars in the Milky Way are nearly as old as the Universe itself and thus probably formed shortly after the Dark Ages of the Big Bang.[36] On 12 May 2022, astronomers announced the image, for the first time, of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.[37]
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If they haven't come here yet, they never will. We are alone in the universe.
You can’t possibly be thst dense,thst was a funny for the day right,sarcasm? :auiqs.jpg: Guess all these astronaughts and Air Force officers speaking of aircraft they have seen stay in one place and then zip off in be gone before even a second passed by into nowhere off radar we’re all lying,yeah right,grow up already. :uhoh3:
 
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If a person could travel at 1/10th the speed of light it would take about 7750 years to travel to our nearest galaxy.
Soooooo, the likelihood of aliens ever visiting Earth is about zero.
[PART TWO]

The "nearest galaxy" is the Andromeda Galaxy;
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The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years)[8] approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.[6] The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology.

The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses (2.0×1042 kilograms). The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. This has been called into question by a 2018 study that cited a lower estimate on the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy,[12] combined with preliminary reports on a 2019 study estimating a higher mass of the Milky Way.[13][14] The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 46.56 kpc (152,000 ly), making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4–5 billion years,[15] merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy[16] or a large lenticular galaxy.[17] ...
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So, ..., to get to the nearest galaxy which is about 2.5 million light years away and traveling at 1/10th the speed of light means it will take about 25 million years to get there, at it's outskirts.

A bit more than the "7750 years" you present.

So maybe you meant the nearest star, within our own Milky Way Galaxy ???
 
They have been here. There is evidence. However, they are intelligent and they have seen what we are as a species and said "NO THANKS" I can't say I blame them. I wish I could go with them. The human race is fubar.
:thankusmile: Concerned American you so much nailed it. Someone here gets it.this sheep is braindead and has done no research into this whatsoever despite what he may claim.they have technology so far advanced mankind could never comprehend,what would take us several decades to travel to,one galaxy to another,they easily slip through like it’s nothing all in the blink of an eye.they observe us like we observe ants because they are afraid thst one day we will acquire enough advanced technology to venture into space and bring our savage barbaric murdering ways from this planet to other planets in the future thst is why they want no part of us. If the op was not so braindead he would no thst is the reason there have been so many ufos reported over nuclear weapon sites.they observe to see what we are up to if we plan on any launches around the country.

All that is well known.I’m with you,I wish they would beam me up to thier ship and take me away from this savage world to theirs.i hate living in a fucked up world where police won’t do their jobs and allow criminal politicians to get away with crime after crime,any other works would be preferable to this one,I hate all these asshole parents who keep bringing their children to this world,it’s not one someone should have to grow up into.
 
If a person could travel at 1/10th the speed of light it would take about 7750 years to travel to our nearest galaxy.
Soooooo, the likelihood of aliens ever visiting Earth is about zero.
[PART THREE]

So the nearest star to Sol(Sun)~Earth is the triple star system of Alpha Centauri;
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Alpha Centauri is a gravitationally bound system of the closest stars and exoplanets to our Solar System at 4.37 light-years (1.34 parsecs) from the Sun. The name is Latinized from α Centauri, and abbreviated Alpha Cen or α Cen. It is a triple star system consisting of α Centauri A (officially Rigil Kentaurus),[13] α Centauri B (officially Toliman),[13] and the closest star α Centauri C (officially Proxima Centauri).[13]

Alpha Centauri A and B are Sun-like stars (Class G and K, respectively), and together they form the binary star Alpha Centauri AB. To the naked eye, the two main components appear to be a single star with an apparent magnitude of −0.27, the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus and the third-brightest in the night sky, outshone only by Sirius and Canopus.
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Alpha Centauri C, or Proxima Centauri, is a small faint red dwarf (Class M). Though not visible to the naked eye, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun at a distance of 4.24 ly (1.30 pc), slightly closer than Alpha Centauri AB. Currently, the distance between Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri AB is about 13,000 AU (0.21 ly),[16] equivalent to about 430 times the radius of Neptune's orbit.

Proxima Centauri has three known planets: Proxima b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone discovered in 2016; Proxima c, a super-Earth 1.5 AU away, which is possibly surrounded by a huge ring system, discovered in 2019; and Proxima d, a candidate sub-Earth which orbits very closely to the star, announced in 2022. Alpha Centauri A may have a Neptune-sized habitable-zone planet, though it is not yet known to be planetary in nature and could be an artifact of the discovery mechanism. Alpha Centauri B has no known planets: planet Bb, purportedly discovered in 2012, was subsequently found to likely not exist, and a separate transiting planet has yet to be confirmed.
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So if we travel at 1/10th the speed of light it will take us about 42.4 years to reach Alpha Centauri C, or Proxima Centauri .

Hmmmm ....

Not quite that 7750 years figure you've presented.

So where are you having us go to?

Likely somewhere still here within our own galaxy, the Milky Way. But closer to the center, or closer to the outer rim? Or somewhere "up" or "down" relative to the plane of rotation of this galaxy ?
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Meanwhile, I'll move on to another or two of more absurd posts here, including the OP.
 
If they haven't come here yet, they never will. We are alone in the universe.

a. This planet has been in existence for over 4 billion years. There is no way to know whether Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials at some point in all that time.

b. If they have the technology to travel in interstellar space, they may also have the technology to evade our abilities to detect them. Think Star Trek cloaking device of some kind. Do we not have our own stealth technology that prevents detection by our radar systems? Extraterrestrial technology probably would exceed our own by several orders of magnitude.

c. Ever since Einstein there have been theories of the possibility to bend or warp space and time to greatly reduce the distances to get from planet A to planet B in another star system. Just because we can't do it yet doesn't mean beings from out there haven't figured how to do it. Do not forget that today's homo sapiens has only been around for a few hundred thousand years. Extraterrestrial civilizations may have existed for a lot longer and therefore are or could be a lot more advanced cuz they've had more time to do so.

d. There very well could be millions upon millions of other life forms out there that may be intelligent or at least sentient but not sufficiently advanced to accomplish space travel. Or maybe they decided to stay home. That doesn't make them stupid or unintelligent, it just makes them different. Or maybe here are other life forms that can't go anywhere yet, but might do so a million years from now.

e. It will be another 4 or 5 billion years before Earth gets wiped out by a dying Sun that is running out of fuel. Somebody may show up here in the future, who knows?
 
If they haven't come here yet, they never will.

EDIT: So aside from interdemsional travel...

...That is true, even if there is life far more intelligent than we are you have to think about how long it would take them even traveling at the speed of light...
that means in a best case scenario [denizens on even the closest planets to us] they would be traveling at least 100's of thousands of years to get here, and even allowing for that, what would be the purpose?...
...every one on the planet who sent them would more than likely be dead before they got anywhere near us, and what would they be going back to? What would they want from us? we would amount to life forms that would be tumbleweeds on their planet?
we are alone in the universe.
Save for any radio communication, we're alone even if there are other life forms out there if they are unable to reach or contact us.... and if travelling at less than light speed, even if it/they were just one lightyear away it would make no sense from an intelligence standpoint to attempt it.
 
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:thankusmile: Concerned American you so much nailed it. Someone here gets it.this sheep is braindead and has done no research into this whatsoever despite what he may claim.they have technology so far advanced mankind could never comprehend,what would take us several decades to travel to,one galaxy to another,they easily slip through like it’s nothing all in the blink of an eye.they observe us like we observe ants because they are afraid thst one day we will acquire enough advanced technology to venture into space and bring our savage barbaric murdering ways from this planet to other planets in the future thst is why they want no part of us. If the op was not so braindead he would no thst is the reason there have been so many ufos reported over nuclear weapon sites.they observe to see what we are up to if we plan on any launches around the country.

All that is well known.I’m with you,I wish they would beam me up to thier ship and take me away from this savage world to theirs.i hate living in a fucked up world where police won’t do their jobs and allow criminal politicians to get away with crime after crime,any other works would be preferable to this one,I hate all these asshole parents who keep bringing their children to this world,it’s not one someone should have to grow up into.
Amusing ...
... you have a small part of the picture.

The real story, which will take some time and a few posts to present, is that we humans are a product of "Their" intervention into our evolution. Part acceleration and part genetic blend of their DNA with ours, hence we are "Their" progeny of sorts.

It gets a bit more complicated since the local "They" (whom are still here for clear reasons - this star system and planet are Their property) are entangled with other "They" from other star systems in a feud/conflict over possession of Earth, and what is here on it, and within this star system.

Think of Earth as a 'Farm' and we humans are the 'livestock' here, and which go with the property to whomever holds the "Deed".

In inter-stellar and Intra-galaxtic terms of property and sovereignty, we humans have no legal right to either. Some "Other" "They" own this world and star system and we humans are part of what comes with such ownership.
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The part where you come close to "right" is that "They" made Us Humans what we are, and that is part of "Them", and if we ever did get our Sovereignty, Freedom, and access to Their advanced and inter-stellar technologies, we Humans just might do a "Japan Phenomena" upon "Them" and this part of the Galaxy, which would really muck up the political order of things "Out There".
 
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