(December 12, 2011 at 4:48 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Well Chuck, it's really impossible to comment unless it actually happens. I love sci-fi because they (generally) at least keep their ideas within the realms of possibility, and who really knows? There might be a Darth Vader out there somewhere.
Well, given that the universe is 13 billion years old, and our technological civilization is only a few hundred years old, the odds of any alien we meet being within a few decades of us in terms of technological development is vanishingly small. It's overwhelming more likely that they are either quite primitive (somewhat less likely), or as far more advanced than we are as we are compare to the earthworm (somewhat more likely). There is almost no possibility of meaningful conversation much less bonhamie between humans and aliens.
