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Showing Original Post only (View all)Will we find aliens first or will they find us? [View all]
I mean one side revealing themselves to the other.
I'm talking about intelligent life. Not just microbes and amoebas.
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They will find us first | |
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Humans are the only intelligent life in the universe. | |
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Perhaps they view us as a SNL skit. I really can't imagine an advanced species having interest
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#108
Time will tell, it could be interesting if they did. I do have to agree with what Stephen Hawking
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#162
Interesting!!! Sadly, I doubt either of us will ever see anything happen in our lives, I guess. n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#167
I sincerely wish you the best of luck. I think you have been left a real mess. Many of us did not
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#177
That is fascinating, in that it could give them clues as to why they are like they are today.
Rex
Oct 2015
#116
Other. First off, interstellar travel is so resource intensive, that it would be a waste.
onehandle
Oct 2015
#3
Well, my good friend, the rocket equation is not likely to be overthrown any time soon.
longship
Oct 2015
#16
You're thinking about it the wrong way - I don't know if humans will ever
MillennialDem
Oct 2015
#62
Might for me. I'm 35 and have good longevity genes (most grand and great grandparents living into
MillennialDem
Oct 2015
#72
If you have the resources of an entire solar system things start to look different
Fumesucker
Oct 2015
#138
Distance is immaterial to immortal beings who can manipulate their sense of time at will
Fumesucker
Oct 2015
#155
True. In our current stage of understanding the universe, that makes sense.
Glassunion
Oct 2015
#149
I don't know where you got the idea that I was implying that new scientific
Glassunion
Oct 2015
#160
I find it far more likely that we'll find evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization than that one
Rond Vidar
Oct 2015
#8
It's unlikely we'll spot them through visual evidence. Radio emissions are much easier to detect.
Rond Vidar
Oct 2015
#11
I saw your critical thinking flying around in a spaceship with aliens
wheniwasincongress
Oct 2015
#77
Actually, your answer is logically the best. Any species with the high-intelligence to travel the..
BlueJazz
Oct 2015
#43
It's very difficult to refute the evidence IMO that some really interesting, mysterious and
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#127
It is mathematical impossible for there to be no other intelligent civilizations in our galaxy
Half-Century Man
Oct 2015
#45
Anyone who has ever had a premonition knows that thinking is the best way to travel.
leveymg
Oct 2015
#58
Some estimates are they could be about two billion years more advanced than us.
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#107
Unless you know how to bend space and time to make two points anywhere in the universe met.
Rex
Oct 2015
#128
Or maybe we are so alien to them and them to us, that neither group even notices the other.
Rex
Oct 2015
#134
I think you may be right. Kind of like sponges studying ballerinas and vice-versa.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2015
#136