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**sensation** · 09-04-2012, 04:42 AM

To bring things into perspective; we have only had the capability of advertising our existence in the last 100 years or so, yet the universe is 13 odd billion years old. There was something on the news the other day of a planet that could support life some 40 million light years away. If intelligent life was around there then, there is a strong probability that they would now be extinct, based on the time light reaches us and our average species survival rate of only 7 million tears.

It all seems very hit or miss, with mainly miss that two advanced civilisations could not only coexist at the same time, but overcome the immense distances involved to bring them together.

I agree. Generally, people have a very poor understanding of the implications of "deep time" and vast distances. The liklehood that we co-exist with other technological civilizations, in the immediate interstellar neighborhood or in the universe at large, is vanishingly small, regardless of how many stars there are and even independent of how likely intelligent life is.

09-04-2012, 04:42 AM	#24
sensation Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 366 Senior Member	To bring things into perspective; we have only had the capability of advertising our existence in the last 100 years or so, yet the universe is 13 odd billion years old. There was something on the news the other day of a planet that could support life some 40 million light years away. If intelligent life was around there then, there is a strong probability that they would now be extinct, based on the time light reaches us and our average species survival rate of only 7 million tears. It all seems very hit or miss, with mainly miss that two advanced civilisations could not only coexist at the same time, but overcome the immense distances involved to bring them together. I agree. Generally, people have a very poor understanding of the implications of "deep time" and vast distances. The liklehood that we co-exist with other technological civilizations, in the immediate interstellar neighborhood or in the universe at large, is vanishingly small, regardless of how many stars there are and even independent of how likely intelligent life is.
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