(September 20, 2017 at 9:01 am)Jehanne Wrote:(September 19, 2017 at 10:12 pm)ignoramus Wrote: But why only 1?
I'd love nothing more than to ask my cat why he bites the fuck out of me when he's happy?
I think it's just pot luck. Mutations at the right time on the right species. Just a mutation. That's our claim to fame. And we took advantage of it naturally.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Besides, there is some evidence of ET:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
It hasn't been replicated, but if it was just a beacon, that would be perfectly understandable. And, we haven't been looking continuously for it since it was first detected.
There's no reason to believe the "WOW" signal came from another intelligence somewhere out there.