Posted on 08/26/2013 4:29:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
1. Separated by vast distances
2. Incompatible communications technologies
3. They are already here but we do not have advanced enough technology to detect them consistently.
4. Look over your shoulder...: )
Obviously the universe wasn’t created for us since everything except this little solar system is completely off limits to us.
Kinda like this continent used to be.
“Aliens? What is this, one of your Earth jokes?” My people do not approve of this sort of speculation.
For now.
Maybe we aren’t intelligent enough for them to want to communicate with us yet. It amazes me how scientists have developed all these amazing terms, measurements, hypotheses, and theorums, which are for the most part, ego stroking, and still can’t produce matter from nothing or answer many simple questions.
Not much point. We have plentiful resources (despite the cries of oil shortage) right underneath us, and our technology will at some point reach the stage where solar power is viable. What are we going to mine some planet for precious stones? It would only decrease their value as the supply grew dramatically.
The distances traveled without the use of science fiction warp drives and the costs associated with launching even 1 man into space makes it a bad investment.
Besides, I have a feeling that our electronic technology and reliance on it will be our undoing in the next 100 years due to some cataclysm.
Icarus was a very good tale.
If that's the case, than expansion into just a portion our galaxy is a 'tough row to hoe'.
Expansion to another galaxy, virtually impossible.
See, the other races are smart enough to be quite so the Cylons/Klingons/Romulans/Daleks/Cybermen/Visitors/etc. don’t come kill them.
Not at all like that. Humans crossed the oceans in boats only marginally better than dugout canoes. The Polynesians LITERALLY did cross the oceans in dug out canoes.
“Expansion to another galaxy, virtually impossible.”
It’s only going to remain ‘impossible’ until someone figures out how to make a profit from it.
God made the universe for man both for now and the future. Science can't accept that as a workable theory yet at the same time they'll conclude based on meaningless theories that there MUST be life elsewhere.
I think the only thing we really know for certain is that Al Sharptons are rare out there in advanced alien civilizations. Otherwise, they’d all be here whining about rodeo clowns making racist fun of them.
Maybe radio is a short lived technological step on the way to quantum based communications for most civilizations. Something that only has a couple of dozen years of usefulness for all but the most retarded of species.
A FReeper turned me on to a fascinating little Harry Turtledove short story called “The Road Not Taken” that suggests an interesting alternative to why.
Well worth a read if you’ve got an hour.
I think its entirely possible that the universe teems with life but none of it is intelligent or doesn’t have the right kind of intelligence. Who knows, maybe there is vast intelligence without the physical attributes to build with.
To get away from Obamacare?
With the recent events in the Middle East, it may be too late to get off-world. There should have been a thriving moon colony by now.
Maybe they’re scared. Maybe they have the common sense not to talk to strangers.
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