(July 19, 2015 at 9:21 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I voted for two, interstellar travel of any distance is probably either impractical or impossible. But humans aren't that interesting is another good bet. I have one more. It seems every other scifi book I read these days involving interstellar travel by humans includes some sort of moral prohibition on revealing ourselves to species who have not yet invented interstellar travel. So what if they are hiding from us for our own good?
But ultimately, I don't think we really know how likely intelligent life outside of our solar system really is. After all we only have one example.
At the risk of courting the anthropocentric fallacy, we've not really been shy of finding other cultures and interacting, for better or worse.
I do, however, think that any spacefaring civilization has already had our experiences insofar as it has colonized its own planet, and would perhaps be a little thoughtful.
A little.
