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SETI - Why look for Alien life when the odds are they have found us
saint:
--- Quote from: vcoleiro1 on October 02, 2011, 01:11:50 am ---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).
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Why would any of these assumptions be any more correct than we're the first intelligent race to evolve?
Ed_McCarron:
Well, the speed of light limits anyone else out there listening to our EM radiation to having to be within ~90 light years or so (assuming we started broadcasting around 1920). Pretty small chunk of the galaxy.
Personally, I believe that our race was seeded on this planet by another (very corporeal) intelligence.
In case anyone else is reading, here's a warm welcome to all the intelligent life forms out there. And to the rest of you... the trick is to bang the rocks together, guys.
hypernova:
--- Quote from: saint on October 02, 2011, 10:50:28 am ---
--- Quote from: vcoleiro1 on October 02, 2011, 01:11:50 am ---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).
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Why would any of these assumptions be any more correct than we're the first intelligent race to evolve?
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Bingo. I've thought the same thing. Our planet has gone through numerous climate changes, as well as many natural/intergalactic disasters. We've just hit a lull where things have been allowed to evolve to our current "advanced" state. That meteor that one day wipes us completely out of existence will one day come. Will we be advanced enough to flee or stop it? If not, we're back to square one on this planet. I have a suspicion that this is the reason that we've not been contacted by others.
I think the assumption that statistically there must be other intelligent races is just false logic. We have a hard enough time finding planets that are capable of supporting life (in our terms of course).
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 02, 2011, 04:39:50 am ---I thought Star Trek pretty much explained this one. Super advanced races can't interfere with the natural evolution of more primative peoples.
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This isn't Star Trek. Or V. Or ID4. We can't really make assumptions on other species morals and ethics. They could even be like the Space Pirates from the Metroid series. We can't even truly make the assumption that we wouldn't "interfere" ourselves, as we've yet to come across anything. The notion of not interfering is still only presented in a television show/movie series. In fact, we could argue we've done the opposite, by throwing all sorts of things into space to try to find other life out there.
There's life out there, to be sure. Whether it is quite as advanced as us, that's another question, which I'm starting to doubt.
Louis Tully:
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SNAAKE:
^ interesting video :burgerking:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 02, 2011, 04:39:50 am ---
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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lol.. :scared
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