[BenLurkin]

ETC = Extraterrestrial Civilization

[ifinnegan]

Science Alert?

This isn’t science.

[Rurudyne]

I believe it has been said that we should hope for intelligent life out there because there’s bugger all here on earth.

[Red Badger]

How would we even know they were from the same place?...............

[NorthMountain]

This concept shows up in Science Fiction, occasionally. Star Trek had both and episode and a movie based on it (”Space Seed” and “The Wrath of Khan”). It also features heavily in the “Galaxy’s Edge” series of books. Other examples probably also exist.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Or imagine this. A probe arrives and returns information. Another probe arrives later saying Never mind

[butlerweave]

Aliens love their Probes

[Magnum44]

I just came here for the probe jokes.

[gitmo]

So you get probed by the younger probe before you get probed by the old probe.

[Vaquero]

This is a twilight zone episode with Robert Lansing as an astronaut who returns to earth an old man.

[cgbg]

Most astronomers are looking for alien life in all the wrong places.

Advanced civilizations would disguise themselves as background radiation or primitive biology.

It would be foolish for them to disclose their existence to us until they choose to do so.

[twister881]

First probe to arrive: “We’re still waiting.”
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Second probe: “Send more Chuck Berry.”

[Bob434]

Speaking of reverse, I slept backerds last night and woke up yesterday morning and had to do the whole day over again

[Doctor DNA]

“Do or do not. There is no try.” ...

... Yoda

[BradyLS]

The theory reminds me of the old 1956 Robert Heinlein novel, _Time for the Stars._

A series of low-tech torchships built by the Long Range Foundation is sent out to explore the nearby systems, using the conceit that telepathic twins and triplets (and their attuned progeny) can communicate “almost instantaneously” across the vast distances between Earth and the accelerating ships.

The torchship the protagonist is assigned to is eventually recovered by a technologically more advanced LRF starship from Earth.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“In reverse”

I had a car like that once. All the forward gears were jammed and only reverse worked.

[NWFree]

Newer probes could be faster to arrive than older probes

[Heartlander]

They're Made out of Meat

[higgmeister]

No one should be allowed to use an acronym for something that does not exist.

[ElkGroveDan]

This isn’t science - its navel gazing.

[central_va]

ETC chicks are easy.