It appears that these ‘visitors’ have been visiting for centuries, millenia perhaps! Could it be that they are waiting until we develop some societal system similar to their own before they make official contact? ... Think about it: we humans aren’t likely to go ‘hive style’, so what if that is the system the visitors use? What religious or societal systems approach a hive mentality in our day? ... Islam anyone?
Think about your immune system and the implications of coming in contact with life forms your immune system has no evolutionary protection against.
I dunno, ‘Texas Style’ seems to have worked for anyone who’s tried it.. promise us free land and five generations later we’ll be running the whole planet we find ourselves on.
Don't know if they'll have a naturally developed hive mentality, but be willing to bet they will have an artificially developed hive mentality, highly computer aided (not Borg but close).
“It appears that these ‘visitors’ have been visiting for centuries, millenia perhaps!”
Well, I love listening to Kook to Kook AM, I still, however, remain an extreme skeptic about being, or ever have been visited, by ET.
A trip of 127 light years, even at the speed of light, would be a bit exhausting to say the least, and not many gas stations along the way.
I remember back in the fifties there was a buzz about
listening for radio signals from a star that is 11 light years away.
The thinking was that the then new TV signals (not reflected by the ionosphere) that had originated 22 years prior would have reached this system and it would be time to look for any reply.
SETI was established to look for radio signals from other stars.
Of course, we have picked up only static.
Most of the kooks can not even imagine what a light year is.