I'm afraid I might have some bad news for extra-terrestrial companion-seekers.
Are you familiar with the galactic "you are here" maps for hitchiking our Spiral?
Well, they look something like...
So, even in the unlikely event that faster-than-light travel was feasible... no respectable alien would waste the resources to come out to such a backwater, with all the interesting places in more fashionable neighbourhoods... even Vogons are quite unlikely to raze us to make room for hyper-space bypasses, really. It just makes for funny novel plots, but... honestly. :·)
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