RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 2, 2019 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2019 at 4:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 2, 2019 at 4:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What puzzles me is that people always (or nearly always) seem to assume that ETs would be vastly ahead of us, technologically speaking. Why? Couldn't it possibly be that there aren't any species who have survived long enough to develop interstellar travel, and the ones that are left are too busy poisoning their own planets to bother with starships? Sort of like, you know, us.
Boru
Because even if the chances for any individual specie to survive long into technology age is slim, the number of technological species seems likely to be so large, that some small fraction of these that did by chance survived long into it would still likely represent a large number.
But I think it is plausible that with advancements in science beyond ours, other venues for gaining survival advantage and attaining aggrandizement that we have hitherto not dreamed of or at least not thought about seriously would become available, so brute interstellar travel and colonization by spaceships turn out not to represent a lengthy era or even important era in the history of the development of any technological civilization.
