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Originally Posted by Skybird
Considering that we have no idea, absolutely no idea about other life out there, and can in no way conclude on this life's intentions and motivations, drives and ambitions, I wonder whether it really is a brilliant idea that we make this much noise and want to let everybody know that we are there, and where we are to find.
Trust and hoping for the best, is kind. Knowing is better. But we know nothing than that approximately 90% of the space within the milky way is dozens of millions of years older than the 10% of space our solar system lies in. So are the solar systems in these regions: much older than our Earth is. That means that life in these 90% of space and solar systems, if such life exists, is much older than all history of life on Earth, and thus most intelligences out there most likely have an advantage in knowledge over us that counts in the hundreds of thousands if not many millions of years.
And who said that that life with its superior knowledge is friendly? Who said we make contact with others on grounds of our conditions, and our superiority? This is no Star Trek. We are not Starfleet officers. This is the real galaxy. Here we are the ants.
We really should stop to make that much noise.
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I would think that given the vastness there must be life forms out there with far greater intelligence than our own.We are still primitives we can not even get along with each other.
A life form that has been around for much longer say billions of years it would have developed advanced technology many millions of years ago or at least the possibility is there and given the odds something out there must be at that point.
Compare the jump just in the past 70 years in technology now imagine what something could do one million years on assuming that society did not destroy itself or perhaps it did and hashed out the petty issues long ago.
Who knows though perhaps there are many lifeforms that have been wiped out when their Voyager was discovered.What if something that we placed on those discs which is not offensive in any way is to another considered a threat or highly offensive?
Maybe the ant pile gets smashed by something more powerful.Maybe not.