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SETI - Why look for Alien life when the odds are they have found us
vcoleiro1:
Ok, heres my Sunday arvo thinking.
I have heard time and time again that statistically there must be many many intelligent races in the universe. If this is the case , the odds are heavily stacked that these races must be on majority more advanced than us. The odds being that they should have found us already (even if more intelligent life was a minority). This leads to some interesting thought.
If there is intelligent life out there then why look for it as they would surely have found us already. Perhaps theres a line of thought that some would be trying to contact us and we should be looking for there direct signal.
If it is possible to travel great distances than these intelligent beings would have already visited earth - barring any universal law prohibiting them from interfering with fledgling races. If they have been here, the questions are endless , ie why dont they make themselves known?, have they interfered in our past, if so how would we feel about that?
In conclusion, Statistically there is intelligent life out there , and statistically they would have already found us. Scary thought?. So why havent they contacted us?, or have they and we dont know about it? Perhaps they have interfered in our history - how would we feel about that.
"Hey were the cyborg race from orion .By the way 1000 years ago we interfered in your history and you know religion XX, well we kind of started that, sorry bout that"
SNAAKE:
religion wasnt invented(lol) by aliens. it was just some random people. the world be a different place if everyone believed there is no afterlife.
personally I like to think we are in the matrix. one of these days Morpheus will find me..:cheers:
vcoleiro1:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on October 02, 2011, 02:14:26 am ---
religion wasnt invented(lol) by aliens. it was just some random people. the world be a different place if everyone believed there is no afterlife.
personally I like to think we are in the matrix. one of these days Morpheus will find me..:cheers:
--- End quote ---
I hope Morpheus doesnt find me , not a big fan of Laurence Fishburne (lol)
SNAAKE:
hope agent smith doesnt find me for doing the things I do...with computers.. :scared
Howard_Casto:
I thought Star Trek pretty much explained this one. Super advanced races can't interfere with the natural evolution of more primative peoples. If they did it would introduce technology and knowledge to a species far too stupid to use it properly. Essentially it would be like giving a bunch of monkeys hand-grenades to play with. So any advanced race would avoid contact both for the benefit of their race and the primative one.
Now you might be thinking "But wouldn't some races ignore this edict?" Of course they would. If they could. The thing is only unadvanced races would be petty or even interested in mucking about in primatives lives and they wouldn't have the tech to find or bother us.
So somebody needs to get to work on warp drive so the Vulcans can visit.
As for the answer to the universe and life after death, it's Blue 13, section C. Sounds like nonsense now, but just wait until you die. ;)
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