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GoldenMean -- very true --- we have no idea as to how old any other life
form may be, nor do we have any way of knowing if they are intelligent or not in comparison to our species. We've been around approx. 120,000 years as best we can tell, with speculation that homonids have been on earth for at least 450,000 years, yet we have been space travel capable for only 47 years. With that capability being extremely limited. It is reasonable to extrapulate from this that an alien species would have a simular developmental time frame to ours. Now we run into the odds against both developmental timeframes running concurrently and/or progressing at the same rate. Then this all assumes that an alien species has managed to conquer some of the physical problems of traversing the great distances of space. Bringing us to the final hurdle and as you suggest .....why would they want to contact us?
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gomedome
on October 4, 2005 at 8:14 AM
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Playing the odds
My speculation is that aliens will not come to visit us any time soon, for the following reasons:
1) If life exists elsewhere, some of it is far older and wiser than us.
2) That older and wiser life is managing the universe, as much as it can, so that intelligent species can develop "on their own" until they are ready to interact with others, without attacking or disrupting those others.
3) Obviously, WE ARE NOT READY!
4) So we may be observed, but not openly visited.
If life has such a galaxy-wide or universe-wide order or progression, then consider, why would college students (aliens capable of interstellar space travel) have the slightest interest in wasting their time visiting the classroom of a kindergarten like ours?
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GoldenMean
on October 4, 2005 at 4:45 AM
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