Posted on 09/19/2021 1:08:15 AM PDT by LibWhacker
And it could be tomorrow.
We can’t find bigfoot let alone another lifeform from an advanced civilization.
They are not, so it doesn’t matter.
The King is returning for his bride soon. I’d be more invested in that.
Interesting stuff. Our curiosity is maybe our sole redeeming feature.
We are alone...
Don’t these people know that human caused globull warming will have long since destroyed that earth!?
Duh!
Are We The Earliest Intelligent Life In The Universe?
If they come knocking on OUR door, ain't nobody gonna be home......
Bkmk
a 4.5 billion evolutionary timeline means that only longer-lived stars and planets could support life, such as M-type (red dwarfs). These stars are known to have incredibly long lifespans, remaining in their main sequence phase for up to trillions of years. ...
“95% of planets are around longer-lived stars than ours, and most live longer than a trillion years. Furthermore, advanced life like us should appear toward the end of a planet’s life ...
I don't get it. If the universe is only 13.8 billion years old, yet life already exists (us), then how is it relevant that some stars might exist for trillions of years? Aren't a few billions years already enough?
The human species may die out tomorrow so who knows what will be here in a million years.
Theory fails to account for non-organic life forms : energetic and plasmoid. Both of which could have arisen in the first milliseconds of the Universe. There is nothing that says intelligent life has to be organic or that it takes millions or billions of years to arise.
Perhaps aliens have equally advanced social skills and would recognize a potential toxic relationship from a distance. Ergo, we will never encounter actual alien species until we cure our “socialist-communist-democrat” problem.
So…ah…we’re not really alone, they’re just not here yet…or something like that?
I would think the chances of a civilization reaching GC development would be very low as all advanced civilizations would destroy themselves.
If a civilization were sophisticated enough to reach GC status, then they would have developed cloaking tech to make themselves invisible to snoopy neighbors.
The authors posit that life arises spontaneously throughout the universe. What if there is one master GC and it fertilizes life all over the universe. Then we are them.
Does any planet have enough resources to enable it to reach GC status? Wouldn’t growth to GC status consume all of a planet’s resources before that civilization could actually reach GC? The energy needed to be “loud” in a section of the universe would consume more energy than would be available on any planet. Could a GC have learned how to harness their sun’s energy to achieve “loud”?
Must all GCs be in our own galaxy? Is intergalactic travel possible?
We only have 50,000 years left. It seems we’re in a sparsely heavenly body populated arm of our galaxy. But at sometime in the future we’ll rotate into heavy traffic.
Alliums have seen the way we vote and want nothing to do with us...
Considering Einsteinian physics, where do they get the assumption that civilizations expand at the speed of light, eventually zipping around so fast that they arrive before their radio signals?
Even if you could travel at the speed of light (you most likely can’t) that doesn’t mean you instantaneously land somewhere, establish a colony and just move on to the next one at the speed of light.
Radio may be a short lived technology with all the smart kids figuring out how to use something like quantum entanglement instead.
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