[Windflier]

I have no doubts that alien life exists out there somewhere.

However that being said, there is no reason for an enlightened, advanced society to come here at our present stage of development.

There's a case that can be made for the need to monitor savage civilizations who've developed the means of space flight, and have harnessed the atom.

Call it a containment mission.

[Shaun_MD]

I can see that. We have no idea how nuclear or atomic detonations affect others in the neighborhood so that is a possibility. I would argue however that an enlightened society would necessarily have a non interference policy, even if it meant letting us destroy ourselves.

[Shaun_MD]

“There’s a case that can be made for the need to monitor savage civilizations who’ve developed the means of space flight, and have harnessed the atom.”

We’re still confined to a small part of our solar system. When we overcome that, then I suspect we would be monitored very closely. Right now, I doubt we even raise alien eyebrows.

[The Cajun]

There's a case that can be made for the need to monitor savage civilizations who've developed the means of space flight, and have harnessed the atom.
Call it a containment mission.

Have thought about that, seems if they were thousands or millions of years ahead of us, they would have no worry about us.
Then I thought, what if we are (due to computers and other high tech) on the verge of significant breakthroughs, we might be becoming a problem faster than we think.