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To: Dysart

This is another example of wearing rose-colored glasses. They say that there are 40 billion chances for life on other planets, but if so, what are the chances that we are the most technologically advanced? 40 billion to 1. If a planet had life and was only 100 years more advanced than us, they would be able to contact us and communicate with us.


10 posted on 11/20/2013 9:40:06 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: jimmygrace
If a planet had life and was only 100 years more advanced than us, they would be able to contact us and communicate with us.

Other than the fact that they are probably millions of light-years away, you are absolutely right.

17 posted on 11/20/2013 9:43:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: jimmygrace
If a planet had life and was only 100 years more advanced than us, they would be able to contact us and communicate with us.

The obvious problem with that position is conceivably, that other, more advanced otherworldly civilizations might be so cosmically distant that they cannot communicate with us-- yet.

23 posted on 11/20/2013 9:47:53 AM PST by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: jimmygrace

They may be bale to communicate with us, but why would they? Would it not be better for them to observe and study us before making that determination?

As for advanced technology, they may very well be here and communicating amongst themselves without our knowing about it. Imagine if we were to be able to take our technology back in time and observe older civilizations. We would be able to move about and communicate in a stealth manner that they would be unable to detect. So why would not an advanced civilization do the same?

Mathematically speaking, extra-terrestrial life is a certainty. The real question is, “in which form does it exist”? Amoebas in primordial ooze? Early development? Superior and tremendously advanced? Who knows.


25 posted on 11/20/2013 9:49:32 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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But would they want to? And would we understand it? And how long would the transmissions take? Technically we’ve sent out communications (both on purpose and just a by product) but they haven’t gotten very far. And the communication methods we use now would be completely useless in communicating with us 100 years ago.


31 posted on 11/20/2013 9:54:03 AM PST by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: jimmygrace
If a planet had life and was only 100 years more advanced than us, they would be able to contact us and communicate with us.

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53 posted on 11/20/2013 10:14:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: jimmygrace
Almost all man-made electromagnetic radiation is currently sinusoidal which matches natural emissions. Limited to such a primitive method, an advanced civilization would have run out of communication bandwidth long ago. They would have moved on to non-sinusoidal waves using complex wave polarization hopping and other technologies we haven't imagined. There may be all kinds of advanced electromagnetic waves out there that appear to us as random noise.

The only evidence we have is that advanced intelligence development requires a tribal war making disposition driven by vanity and envy. An advanced civilization out there would not likely be our friend. We're asking for it broadcasting non-random appearing signals indiscriminately. Our Milky Way could very well be a nasty neighborhood.

77 posted on 11/20/2013 11:59:17 AM PST by Reeses
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