[cripplecreek]

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.

http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK

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.

[GraceG]

That was hillarious, those poor cats didn’t realize who they screwed with, lol.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

Thanks! That was a very good little sci- fi short story. Allow me to return the favor. I remember reading this in a readers digest many years ago while sitting in a doctors office. Enjoy
http://manybooks.net/_scripts/download-ebook.php

[MHGinTN]

There is a strong possibility that humankind has gained great technical aptitude only to destroy themselves on a technical level.

Off the coast of Western India there are cities in ruin which predate the last Ice Age.

Just off Okinawa are megalithic structures which also predate the last Ice Age.

There are cut or poured stones in South America Mountains at ruins of megalithic structures fitted perfectly together.

And of course there is the enigma of the Sphinx, a statue fashioned probably thousands of years before having the head re-carved by a local Pharaoh.

The Bible indicates that humankind was here before God made Adam and Eve. The distinction of Adam and his descendants from the other humankind is the presence of the spirit in the soul. It is very possible that intelligent beings inhabit other solar systems but lack what God breathed into Adam, a spirit.

A planet with active geology can pretty well obliterate the accouterments of technologies given time and tectonics and weather.

There is strong indication that advanced civilization arose on Mars or migrated to Mars in the distant past, but was devastated by a planetary explosion nearby, flooding Mars with such a massive amount of water that literally one half of the planet has been scoured of impact craters and the axis of the poles shifted dramatically.

What speculations such as these Scientists are making always fail to include are the threads of ruins scattered around our solar system. And of course, NASA never lands a mission close to anything that might tip the applecart.