I probably waste ten hours a week thinking over weird things which most people don't have the time for. It's like digging into Roman battles to realize the impact point of a win and how it transformed history for the next thousand years.
This past month, I've settled on the concept of visiting alien guests, and the likely level of knowledge being more than 20,000 years (or more) ahead of us.
So I've come to four conclusions:
1. In this crowd, it's likely to be our class of intellectuals.....to the '99th-power'. For this reason, I don't see them eager or thrilled to introduce themselves, or ask for the best way to brew beer or getting some idea of the best episode of 'Bonanza'.
2. I also think that if you had to select a crew of a dozen for some star-craft.....they'd all be Spock-types, without any selection of Captain-Kirk-or-Sulu-types. For this reason....once the craft encountered trouble and crashed....they probably didn't have that much training or orientation to survive. I also doubt that they got any promotions/medals after surviving these crash episodes.
3. I suspect that they are greatly confused by the human race, and might spend years studying just the Greek people....only to find that Brits are vastly different, and those Florida folks are crazy. This likely leads to multi-year mission....maybe even 100-year missions.
4. In recent years, with all this meth, and opioids around.....if they did go and capture some Earthling and did the 'probe', and got a dose of the meth/opioids....I'm wondering how whacked out the alien dudes got. 👽