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Re:In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split am... by coleifer on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:09PM (#19265987)
Not discussed by the article, but I wonder...Is it more terrible to find out that nobody's out there? Nobody's listening?
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Re:In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split am... by zzzcpan on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:38PM (#19266252)
Or how about this: find out that somebody's out there, but not evolved enough to be listening? This I find likely. Fixes Fermi paradox too, since this doesn't assume high probability of random life on some planet evolving as far as we did in those billions of years.
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Re:In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split am... by holografix on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:15PM (#19266030)
No. It’s much better that there’s no one out there than we being the colonised.
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Re:In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split am... by zokier on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:49PM (#19266358)
Doing exhaustive search of the universe is pretty big task; I don't think we can anytime soon determine that nobody is out there.
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