Yeah, sometimes I think we are just a reality show for the rest of the galaxy.
In all seriousness, I've seen a few good explanations for why aliens would have a more hands-off approach.
Like you said, it is some kind of experiment. Maybe our civilization gets reset with new variables at the end of every age.
There is some kind of galactic law (like the prime directive in Star Trek). Even aggressive aliens would have to take over our world through some kind of deception that makes it look like our race accepted their rule willingly.
They are just human time travelers and they have been tweaking our timeline for reasons only known to themselves.
We are in a simulation and the aliens are just the devs interacting with the shell.
The aliens are actually benevolent and are slowly coaxing our species into a something resembling civilized behavior (hard to imagine, the way things are going).
They are completely indifferent to us, kind of like the way we ignore monkeys in the jungle, and they are just using Earth as a way station for resources (water, fuel, etc...).
Lots of other possibilities. I hope I find out some day...
Yeah, sometimes I think we are just a reality show for the rest of the galaxy.
In all seriousness, I've seen a few good explanations for why aliens would have a more hands-off approach.
Like you said, it is some kind of experiment. Maybe our civilization gets reset with new variables at the end of every age.
There is some kind of galactic law (like the prime directive in Star Trek). Even aggressive aliens would have to take over our world through some kind of deception that makes it look like our race accepted their rule willingly.
They are just human time travelers and they have been tweaking our timeline for reasons only known to themselves.
We are in a simulation and the aliens are just the devs interacting with the shell.
The aliens are actually benevolent and are slowly coaxing our species into a something resembling civilized behavior (hard to imagine, the way things are going).
They are completely indifferent to us, kind of like the way we ignore monkeys in the jungle, and they are just using Earth as a way station for resources (water, fuel, etc...).
Lots of other possibilities. I hope I find out some day...