(June 24, 2014 at 10:25 pm)snowtracks Wrote: not assuming. but their pattern electromagnetic signals would be transmitted and detected.If they use electromagnetic signals.
What if they are more advanced than us, their electromagnetic wave has already passed us by and they now communicate using something else? What if they never discovered radio? What if they never progressed past the equivalent of our Roman Empire? What if they discovered some other means of communication, besides electromagnetic, that has eluded us? What if they are simply so fucking far away that their signals are too attenuated to pick out of the background noise? None of these conditions are outside the realm of possibility but in your arrogance you assume that because we cannot detect them, they are not, never have been and never will be there. The probability of extra-terrestrial life is near, not quite but near, 1:1, simply because of the immensity of the universe.
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