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 It should have done actually the American natives of pre-Columbian times very unlikely that there might be a world of other peoples they had never seen or ever heard of beyond the vast oceans of the shores of the continent they had had to themselves since time immemorial. And how dearly they'd buy their presumption when the very first conquistadors arrived. So vulnerable were the American aboriginals face-to-face with European military technology.

Similarly, it was only in the last century that the question of the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, within and beyond our galaxy, was first seriously considered. The notion of intelligent alien civilizations tickled popular imagination and spawned a new genre of fiction popularized by H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds"(1898). Popular imagination was first fixed on in the world Mars as the most likely life-bearing planet on our solar system. An important incident of public panic occurred on October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles' radio drama adaptation of "War of the Worlds" was actually mistaken by many for real-life news.

But beyond fiction is the fact in the question: imagine if we reside in a universe teeming with intelligent life and civilizations?-civilizations at the very least as advanced as ours in scientific-technological culture? What are the possible scenarios of implication to us?

The maximum risk to us is the possibility of civilizations with thousands as well as countless years of scientific-technological development advantage over us. As Stephen Hawking pointed out in his recent popular program we've no reason to trust that other kinds of intelligent life elsewhere could be much different from, say, the British, in their tendency to exploit military technological advantage to very selfish ends. Civilizations with our amount of development several light-years away could be of almost no threat to us because they'd lack the technological way to cover the interstellar distances for direct experience of us.  strongarticle.com/

A popular what-if scenario of mine in explaining why a new civilization like ours might remain isolated in an otherwise galactic neighborhood teeming with advanced and even warring civilizations is that our local region of the galaxy might represent one of the several savage backwoods outposts far taken from the major highways of interstellar communication routes of a thriving and bustling galactic community.

Hundreds, thousands are possibly even countless star shuttles hurrying, like automobiles on an interstate highway, to their destinations in the hubs of the galactic political and economic activity may be regularly detecting our presence on sophisticated remote sensing systems but not really bother to prevent to test us out from other planetary communities in the galaxy simply because our region is indeed typical of countless other backwoods localities in the galaxy that there's nothing to arouse any interest in our recently emerged "stone age" culture. In a bustling galactic community with several countless backward civilizations among a small group of relatively elite advanced civilizations (remember that our galaxy alone comes with an estimated four hundred billion stars) the statistical likelihood of our planet being chosen, even by an unfamiliar high school kid of one of the few elite civilizations, for a term paper, may be so low that the best likelihood of a direct experience of intelligent extraterrestrial life may maintain a Robin Hood outlaw, a small grouping of escaped convicts seeking the perfect hideout from the galactic police!

The above-mentioned scenario may seem fanciful but it is instructive to keep in mind that until very recent times whole human communities lived for centuries in total isolation from the surface world within the little space of our native planet for identical reasons. For many, we know our planet could even have now been entered into an enormous database of other inhabited planets by catalogers on a planet across our galaxy using advanced remote sensing technology, but ranked surprisingly low on the priority scale of interesting planets to be checked out. Maybe in hundreds or a large number of years from now, an unfamiliar anthropologist team searching for primitive civilizations untouched by the most popular galactic civilizational culture might decide that individuals are the ideal subject for his Ph.D. thesis.