Soapy Sam
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Joined: Jan. 2012
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| Quote (midwifetoad @ Nov. 05 2013,14:27) | | Quote | | I don't think that within my lifetime we'll make contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life, but we might at least learn it exists. |
That seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Even if there were millions of planets having human equivalent intelligent life, they would develop on different time schedules.
Looking at the varieties of life on earth and the rather peculiar circumstances leading to hominids, I'd bet against finding anything equivalent, ever. |
Yep. We've been sending out radio signals for a whole century. Maybe manage one more? An ever-expanding wavefront briefly sweeping dead civilisations or planets full of life but nothing particularly communicative. Or just planet after planet of prokaryotic sludge.
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