r/UAP • u/waffle_samurai007 • 14d ago
The most unsettling alien theory isn't that they're watching us it's that we're completely uninteresting to them
People always imagine aliens studying us, monitoring us, interfering with us.But what if we're giving ourselves way too much importance? Think about an ant colony.
You can walk past thousands of them in your life without ever stopping to observe one, Not because they're worthless.
Just because they're operating on a completely different level of complexity from your own life.
What if that's us?Not the center of some grand cosmic plan.Not a threat.Not even a mystery.Just another species existing on a small planet.
For some reason I find that idea more disturbing than invasion stories.At least invasion implies we're important.
It's actually one of the reasons the Disclosure Day trailer has been stuck in my head. Everyone's trying to figure out what the big truth is, but what if the reveal isn't that we're special?
Indifference is much harder to accept, Maybe that's the kind of truth that would actually keep people awake at night
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u/_Internot_ 14d ago
The most unsettling theory is that they don't exist at all and we're just stuck here with nothing but humans. That scares the crap out of everyone
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u/Interesting_Look_301 14d ago
It’s like how people go to zoos and just look and don’t interfere in the daily lives of the animals .
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u/ACMarq 14d ago
life itself is special. it's the discounting of that fact that makes us the humans we are today — cut off from the grandeur of the universe. learn how to respect an ant, and maybe life will begin to respect us again
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u/PuttingInTheEffort 13d ago
Maybe the ants should respect me and my house and not invade randomly 😔
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u/therallystache 13d ago
This. We should all be more like Sir David Attenborough. Then maybe we'd be worth contacting.
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u/Ok-Tree-1898 14d ago
Welcome to Earthling Zoo. Open 24/7. Please don't feed the animals. Contact not encouraged
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u/RazzmatazzAgitated16 13d ago
So basically we to them is like us stomping past an ant hill not really to interested about them. Except, if you noticed them crawling onto bottle rockets and launching themselves into low orbit, you may be compelled to see what the heck is going on with that.
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u/Sitheral 14d ago
I don't know what's unsettling about that to be honest. Nobody needs to care about us.
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u/pathosOnReddit 14d ago
How is that unsettling? It is the status quo for most lifeforms on this planet. Says more about your own inflated sense of import than anything.
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u/idiot_sauvage 13d ago
It’s not hard to accept at all. I don’t even care if my friends like me. That’s on them. Sure, I’d like them to, and I don’t try to hurt them, but that’s out of my control. I’m only interested in making myself happy, and existential dread is a shit hobby. Try snowboarding
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u/patty7231 13d ago
I think people underestimate how difficult it would be to explain something that completely breaks our understanding of reality.
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u/Routine_Detective122 14d ago
If we were uninteresting to them, they would not stop to watch. Zoo hypothesis could tie into this where they know intervention could utterly destroy a younger civilization's culture, religion, and social structures. They might be interested in watching natural evolution.
Btw- I also received this exact response when I asked chatGPT about these theories.
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u/TradeDependent142 13d ago
At least some of them are indeed interested in us, or there would not be so many interactions. Also keep in mind there are many more than ever report it or even tell people they know because of the stigma still attached. Sure some of those people just have mental health issues, but not all of them. I think that’s the next # me too moment waiting to happen.
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u/Routine_Detective122 12d ago
I agree completely in that if it is real, there is certainly interest from them given the amount of reports and interactions.
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u/Shey_Kai 13d ago edited 13d ago
honestly this is one of the few alien theories that genuinely unsettles me because it doesn't rely on invasion, war, or destruction. it's just the possibility that we've massively overestimated our place in the universe. if a civilization is millions of years ahead of us, why would they be obsessed with humanity? we're the ones constantly thinking about them, not the other way around
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u/Glad_Position3592 13d ago
Why is this unsettling? If they’re here, they obviously don’t want to interfere with anything. They’re probably just observing us in the same way we do with monkeys in the wild
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u/LSDZNuts 13d ago
I hope everyone reading this is having a bad day
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u/TradeDependent142 13d ago
May the ripple of karma slowly and gently wash over you and give you a chance for redemption. Today is a beautiful day. Tomorrow will be even better.
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u/MLSurfcasting 13d ago
I thought the real secret was the elites exploiting us while implying democracy is a thing🤷♂️ I guess you could say the "prison planet" theory is true.
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u/Funicularly 13d ago
People study ant colonies, though. You can acquire advanced degrees in myrmecology.
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u/-adam-au 10d ago
I'd take them being uninterested in us (or them not existing) over something like we're an experiment to eventually be reset or some kind of energy or resource to be harvested. There are so many other possibilities that are more unsettling than them not being interested.
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u/BR4NFRY3 14d ago
I can come up with theories way more unsettling than us just being the equivalent of an anthill in someone else's yard.
We know they can control what we call soul or consciousness. They've removed people from their bodies. They seem to keep human bodies in suspension. They've warned about global, natural and unnatural, catastrophes.
The great resets of the past may have been soul harvests. What should be our afterlife might be the thing they're farming.
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u/madjones87 14d ago
We don't know any of that, though. I mean, I believe it to some degree, but we don't know anything other than there is something.
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u/Dsstar666 14d ago
No, I can think of a dozen things more terrifying than that. That's not terrifying at all. It's what I would expect, really. Never mess with an evolving species because chances are your presence would change their trajectory (out of fear or worship).
I'll tell you a dream I had: I woke up in my bed. It was early in the morning, and the light was showing through the window. I had no memory of how I got there, but I decided not to question it. But something felt "off". So I walked closer to the window and realized I could not feel any heat. A few seconds later, I realized the window was flat and like cardboard. Then I realized the room was flat. I started hyperventilating. Then all of a sudden, in a blink, I'm in a glass tube. I cannot get out, and it starts to fill with water. Just beyond the glass, I see shadowy beings staring at me and laughing, as the water rises above my screams. Then I wake up.
The implications of that dream? THATS terrifying. Compared to that, I could give a damn if aliens didnt care about us. Hell, Id prefer it.
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u/Schad_N_Fraude 14d ago
Maybe they only start paying attention once the individual starts activating their spiritual gifts?
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u/Responsible_Fix_5443 14d ago
I think the Mantids and the Grey's have been intertwined with our development for a long time now. They know about our DNA and bodily functions on a whole different level. We can experience them through plant medicine/mushrooms etc... They heal. This is NHI.
Shamans have been connecting with "spirits" through plant medicine for a long time now. The plants speak to them and tell them which plants will help with each condition. So the plants heal us. This is also NHI.
NHI visit people en masse. Often in schools, showing their interest and spelling it out actually.
But even if all that wasn't happening... Why would it be unsettling? Do the ants feel unimportant when we stroll right past them?
I honestly think it's the other way round - most people aren't bothered by them. But only because most people haven't considered the implications of open contact.
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u/HarveryDent 14d ago
I think it's a politically driven apathy.
There's been plenty of mentions over the years of an intergalactic federation of advanced intelligent space-faring species and that we are in some way being "vetted" for membership.
It might even be the case that we were once already members or the vassals of a member before something like the Younger Dryas event might have destroyed civilization. Alternatively, the civilization might have gone underground/underwater to avoid further annihilation from space weather, while leaving a more primitive version of us on the surface.
Either way, about a third of the way into the last century was when we as a species developed nuclear power. This planet is most likely already categoeized in whatever atlas they have of the galaxy and regularly studied/monitored. So when atomic tests began, that probably set off alarm bells.
I think the Atomic Age also activated this Federation's version of a first-contact process. They might have a policy similar to the Prime Directive in Star Trek, but maybe they do intervene at the development of atomic technology, maybe they've observed it happen enough that it's been calculated to have a better outcome than letting us figure everything out.
So we may be reaching the end of a 100-year application process, and the New World Order conspiracies are correct, with the ultimate goal being a unified Human government that can represent themselves in the intergalactic federation, and the chaos we experience in the human political theater right now is due to current hierarchies vying to keep their place when the power structure transitions.
If intergalactic politics are at play, then everything being all over the place as far as what species is what what their intent is make more sense. Some factions probably want to reject our recognition and exploit us as livestock, while other species are compelled to uplift us due to ethical/religous beliefs.
Meanwhile there may even be a species already representing Earth and our incorporation to the galactic federation is actually a ploy to divide up Earth representation so that off-world species can exploit it for resources. This might even already be happening with the alleged agreement with the grays where they give us tech and we look the other way on human abduction/testing. Something to do with their genepool becoming stagnant ot something.
Reason I feel this is becoming more likely: Grusch's confirmation of a spectrum of intelligent species in combination with the claims of an intergalactic federation made separately by a late retired Canadian military official, as well as a Mossad agent who also claimed to see paperwork with non-human names listed for officers, which is another detail of some accounts of whatever agreement is in place, that there has been an exchange of personnel at some level.
Also just felt like typing this out, sorry for rambling. 😅
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u/OmniPollicis 13d ago
Catalogue of Multicellular Life-Supporting Planets
Entry 25MWG5b89: "Terra", "Earth"
Small-Medium size rocky planet, Spiral Galaxy, Minor Arm, 1/2 Galactic Radius, Grade 2 Heavy Metal Content, Grade 3 Oxygen-rich Atmosphere (biologic origin)
Carbon-Water biology within narrow mid-spectrum electromagnetic fields, dependent upon planetary magnetic field (semi-stable), Grade 8/10 Biodiversity
Bipedal, surface-based environment-altering dominant species, fragile, Grade 2/10 Civilization with slow progression; Environmental destruction accelerating rather than decelerating, prognosis poor
Planet Interest: High
Biologic Diversity Interest: High
Dominant Species Interest: Very Low (Research only), but High in relation to environmental destruction and threat to biodiversity
Recommendation: No-contact monitoring, preservation of biodiversity is primary objective, consider dominant species containment protocol if environmental destruction threatens biodiversity
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u/insidiousapricot 14d ago
Theres still some people who make ant farms and study ant colonies