Re:Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
by firefoxman1 on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:24AM
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But if they're so advanced, they probably still have radio receivers somewhere though. They should be able to receive our signals and reply with some sort of super advanced method that appears as radio waves so that we can receive them, but that travel much faster so it doesn't take a thousand years to reach us.
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I like the idea that these advanced civilizations are actually all around us and just don't interact with us at all because we are too stupid/too boring/not ready/etc.
Re:Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
by firefoxman1 on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:57AM
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Yeah kind of like how bacteria don't know they're under a microscope.
Consider your analogy stolen for future use!
They're all down there thinking "why aren't there any alien bacteria sending us some chemical messages already? It's clearly the best way to communicate"
H. G. Wells' analogy actually.
Re:Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
by firefoxman1 on Thursday December 22, 2011 @11:42AM
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I love Wells. In what book might I find such analogy?
War of the worlds. Right on the first page.
Then we presume that all these advanced civilizations are somehow living peacefully together AND that they all agree not to mess with earth. That's extraordinarily unlikely. Evolution isn't good at producing life forms that peacefully co-exist.
> they probably still have radio receivers somewhere though
Do you still have a working analog TV set? A shortwave radio?