Why we might be alone in the Universe

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And yet we don't seem to be able to detect this leakage, at least in any form that would indicate it comes from technology.  I happily grant your point that we haven't explored much of the universe, but it seems telling that everywhere we have looked, we've found nothing.

Boru

1. We are extremely short sighted.

2. We can only see a small percentage of things within our visual range.

3. We can only imagine what technological civilization looks like, and only a tony percentage of what we imagine technological civilization to look like consist of things we can actually see, if it were within range

4. We have no idea what other technological civilization actually looks like.


It’s like a person on a surf board seeking what is on the ocean floor by reaching once or twice down with his hand, and feeling notions, claiming there is thus likely nothing on the ocean floor since everywhere he felt there was nothing.

If the comparison is to astronomy, it would be better to liken it to 1000 people on 1000 surfboards all of them equipped with sonar, radar, depth finders and acoustic sensors looking for a very specific object on the ocean floor for 50 years and completely failing to find it.

Boru