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Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
The difficulties in finding extraterrestrial civilizations are immense. Firstly, the vastness of space. Secondly, the amount of time a civilization might be broadcasting signals is relatively short. For example, the Earth is near silent at this point, and 50 years ago we were pretty much a church bell constantly going off (the way we transmit data has changed greatly). So, it's a bit like playing Marco Polo in a stadium with only one call and response. The whole time we're likely to be moving yet farther away from each other. Even more troubling is the thought that to cross interstellar space a civilization would have command of technology that could easily be leveraged to destroy itself. The more time we go without a signal, the worse our own survival odds become (this is assuming that other civilizations could have existed, or may exist).

All in all a fun thing to discuss.

I prefer to go the route of questioning the vast technological superiority in the first place. Perhaps aliens are just parasites riding in the belly of a "living ship" that they domesticated, rather than created. Such is the beauty of fantasy.

Finding life elsewhere and finding alien civilizations are entirely different things. Also, finding life and whether or not life existed are different subjects entirely Rayaan. If the candle burns out on earth, and somebody comes poking, they wont find us, but we will have been here, eh? Life arose very early in earth's history (this was surprising to the scientific establishment at first). Since we only have our own example to draw conclusions from, the odds that life can or would have arose on a planet similar to our own are pretty damn good (barring some unknown or misunderstood mechanism). On the other hand, having only our own earth as a sample size is pretty weak.

Little gray men and spaceships, pretty damn low. But super high on fun.
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Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by TheouLive - September 20, 2011 at 8:31 pm
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by frankiej - October 7, 2011 at 4:47 pm
RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by Gawdzilla - October 7, 2011 at 4:50 pm
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by Gawdzilla - October 9, 2011 at 2:42 pm
RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by IATIA - October 10, 2011 at 7:49 am
RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by frankiej - October 9, 2011 at 11:50 am
RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by CoxRox - October 9, 2011 at 12:13 pm
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by Epimethean - October 10, 2011 at 8:02 am
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real? - by CoxRox - October 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm
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