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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by cheschire on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:07AM (#20164132)
And timing! With humans only being 150,000 to 200,000 years old, and really only intelligently processing input from the stars for less than a century, we're basically talking about two people trying to wave at each other from airplanes that aren't even flying over the same country.
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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by jacquesm on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:29AM (#20165605)
Isn't Homo Sapiens > 300K years old? Not to detract from your wider point which is completely valid.
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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by cheschire on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:06PM (#20166847)
It's a spectrum, really. Homo sapiens are generally about that old, but when you start talking modern anatomy, behaviors, etc, what we would recognize as "human" is much more limited.

If anything, what you bring up kind of goes right along with my point! There may be life out there, but what is life, or intelligent life for that matter? How would we know what we were looking at if we even saw it?

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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by jacquesm on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:17PM (#20166961)
> what is life, or intelligent life for that matter?

Dolphins?

> How would we know what we were looking at if we even saw it?

We try very hard not to see it!

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