We’ll Have to Wait About 3,000 Years for a Reply From Intelligent Civilizations

Universe Today ^ | 8/10/2021 | Matt Williaims

[NonValueAdded]

It may be too late for us to get off-planet in order to continue mankind past what we’re doing to ourselves. Covid is just the beginning.

[Inyo-Mono]

There are thousands and thousands of folks who claim they have spoken to (or communicated with) aliens—right here on Earth.

Aliens from other worlds are already here and have been for quite some time.

[DHerion]

I read somewhere it would take a radio signal 100,000 light years to cross the Milk Way...the Earth is 4 Billion years old, the Universe 13.8...assuming intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Milky Way shouldn’t we have encountered some intelligent communication of some kind by now?

[whitney69]

“...there won’t be any intelligent life left here to receive it.”

Wasn’t sure there was any here now.

wy69

[Mariner]

No we won’t.

They’re already here.

[grey_whiskers]

I like how he off-handedly says that the odds are one in ten million, so we need to consider ten million stars.

Does EVERY star have a habitable planet?

[Peter ODonnell]

I would laugh if we heard back soon and they said, “prepare to die, primitive life forms, we find your planet very attractive from all the stuff you’ve sent us.”

[Kevmo]

Like Viking Kitties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0

[JustaTech]

This galaxy is at least 13 billion years in age. That’s long enough for colonizing the galaxy thousands of times over, starting from the level of technology we have now.

If “they” aren’t already here, “they” aren’t anywhere.

[Kevmo]

Yup, that’s a good expression of Fermi’s Paradox.

[Getready]

....all the planets, I’ve talked to, are playing it down....

[Political Junkie Too]

We better start chiseling our collective knowledge onto tablets and stones.

It may be the only form of documentation that will survive after 3,000 years.

-PJ

[cgbg]

Aliens from other worlds are already here and have been for quite some time.

Jacque Vallee and Terence McKenna have some great analysis on this stuff.

They argue alien contact is designed to be self-falsifying and to undermine the scientific method and way of looking at the world.

What that means is that if you have such contact and then insist on sharing the information with others, you will come across as an insane kook and scientists will refuse to investigate further.

Large human institutions are notorious for ignoring data that does not fit into "the narrative"--even if it is right under their noses.

That is typical of dying civilizations--paradigm shifts are invisible in the early stages...

[Jimmy Valentine]

If they are that intelligent they better wait more than 3K years!

[xp38]

We’ll have a lot of splaining to do!

[kosciusko51]

The ancients wrote their history on stone tablets. We write ours on the equivalent of an Etch-a-sketch.

[Don W]

While it’s a bit much for some of our fellow FReepers, I cannot help but giggle like a schoolgirl when I listen to this song. Turn on and read the closed captions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA

As one of the first Viking Kittie fans, I ask you: Is Valhallelujah not an impressive and hilarious addition to the FR songbook

[discostu]

It could have passed us. Once a signal goes by it’s gone. You can’t turn on your radio and hear what they played last year. And since we’ve only had functioning radios for 100 years and change that’s a whole lot of not being able to hear. If they’re using our frequencies.

[DHerion]

True...but with 100 Billion planets in the Milky Way we should be picking up something...seems odd to me.

[discostu]

But space is HUGE. Our earliest radio signals, if they were strong enough to travel in space, which they weren’t, would have covered about 1% of the Milky Way. And again once they hit an area they were gone, if that planet didn’t invent radios until the next day, too late. And of course you have to remember the reply takes time too. IF somebody got our signal say 25 years ago, and sent a reply, it’s still close to 75 years from getting back to us.