RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 5:17 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 8, 2012 at 5:06 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: What is the reason for projecting the opposite onto them?
I am not projecting the opposit. I am trying not to project at all. I am trying to start from a clean slate.
(June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Which is why I find the lack of evidence for them disturbing. That is, it is some reason to suspect that we might be the first sophont species in the Milky Way with a reasonable prospect of spreading beyond our own star system.
I don't. We really have no idea what evidence we should expect from a sophant 5 million years, or 5 billion years, more advanced than we are. For all we know we could have been providing amusment like crickets in a box all along.