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SETI - Why look for Alien life when the odds are they have found us
Dartful Dodger:
We live on a pist off planet. Advanced life forms were forced to evolve.
When the world was only one temperature and one flat land mass animals only evolved to escape(or eat) other animals.
After the one contentment was torn apart and all the settled layers of gasses were disrupted by the meteorite, being the biggest was no longer the best way to survive.
I would think any life form that has "evolved" with our (or better) intelligence would be just as violent and motivated to conquer as we are.
I think being in the Milky Way is protecting us. Those intelligent life forms don't want to waste time and resources looking through all the crap we have floating around in our galaxy for the off chance of finding us, so they concentrate on cleaner galaxies. the onse that do stuble across are on their way to somewhere better so they don't care.
It's like having the choice to dive for treasure in a giant crystal clear ocean or a little muddy lake.
By now those other life forms have fought millions of wars against each other. The strongest life form has won and grown weak and complacent with its dominance of the universe. Heck I bet the reason they don't accidentally find us is because the people looking for us are some forced slave race that doesn't give a poop.
When we eventually get off this planet we're going to take those other life forms by surprise.
t3design:
....pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: t3design on October 03, 2011, 08:42:39 pm ---....pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
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That's been rattling round my head since I started reading this thread. :)
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on October 03, 2011, 05:35:24 pm ---When we eventually get off this planet we're going to take those other life forms by surprise.
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And probably try to kill them. Or at least royally piss them off.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 03, 2011, 09:24:47 pm ---And probably try to kill them. Or at least royally piss them off.
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Exactly!
After millions of years of peace their culture and technological advances will revolve around curing disease, hunger and unlimited fuel sources. They'll be bigger ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- than the French and we'll have no problem taken over the universe.
t3design:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 04, 2011, 12:31:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: t3design on October 03, 2011, 08:42:39 pm ---....pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth in Oklahoma.
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Fixed.
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Jim, that's disappointingly puerile, even coming from a Texan.
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