RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2019 at 10:35 am by Anomalocaris.)
(May 11, 2019 at 10:19 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 11, 2019 at 9:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: 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
No, it’s more like one person groping for 3 minutes with both his hands in water 3 miles deep and covering 3/4 of the size of the planet. He is looking for an object, But he has no idea how big it is, how deep it is, or where it is.
He is feeling for a specific feel, because that is all he could feel, not because the object would necessarily feel that way even if by chance his hands come into contact with it.
