(February 16, 2015 at 12:27 am)Chuck Wrote:(February 15, 2015 at 7:48 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: It depends on how long-lived the traveling beings are and their motivations. The times involved in the evolution of solar systems and any resultant life forms is what makes the meeting unlikely. One would likely be so far evolved over the other, there would be no significant commonality at all. No reason to meet.
So long as life forms obey as well as understand the same set of physical laws, they will have highly significant commonalities. They have potential to benefit from meeting if only to further their understanding of these laws and benefit from the technology and the power such additional understanding confers.
Unlike what you see in countless science fiction TV shows and movies, it is unlikely in the extreme that any two intelligent civilizations will be anywhere close to each other as far as development goes. If they meet, I have a hard time seeing how the more-developed civilization is going to benefit in any way and how the less-developed civilization is going to avoid being badly damaged.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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