Thread: Screwing Around With The Past.

Originally Posted by Neruo

I am sorry, but that is so incredibly unlikely I really wonder why you even said that. The chance that an alien race would be just 1000 years or so behind us seems very unlikely. Life has been on this planet for several hundred million years. It would be really ironically if aliens would show up because they had the technology all of a sudden Just at the same age when we knew how large the universe really is, and we understand evolution and how aliens might look like.

Point being: If there are intelligent life forms in the universe, and seen the HUGE numbers of planets, there is, one of them is way more advanced then ours.
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Not what I was saying at all, my friend. It's possible that no one's got the technology. Think about how lucky we had to be to get a planet with conditions just right to allow the evolution of complicated organisms, let alone super sentients such as ourselves. I don't care how big the universe is, that's not happened too many times. It's just not probable. The conditions are so hard to create. But, I do acknowledge that it is possible. Factor in the bountiful evidence of multiple global extinctions throughout our earth's history, I wonder that any sentient race could survive long enough to develop that kind of advanced technology assuming they had to start with nothing, like us. I dunno, I just can't see aliens being any different mentally from us. What do I know, though?

Originally Posted by Sprout

Not what I was saying at all, my friend. It's possible that no one's got the technology. Think about how lucky we had to be to get a planet with conditions just right to allow the evolution of complicated organisms, let alone super sentients such as ourselves. I don't care how big the universe is, that's not happened too many times. It's just not probable. The conditions are so hard to create. But, I do acknowledge that it is possible. Factor in the bountiful evidence of multiple global extinctions throughout our earth's history, I wonder that any sentient race could survive long enough to develop that kind of advanced technology assuming they had to start with nothing, like us. I dunno, I just can't see aliens being any different mentally from us. What do I know, though?
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Do you even know how sickly much stars and planets there are in the universe? Like that new hubble-picture: A patch of black, the space you would perceive as black and empty with the naked eye, that little part hold a few dozen galaxies! Without shitting you, I think there are more then 100.000.000.000.000.000 stars in the universe. Maybe WAY more. If they all have a few planets, at least one billion of them has to have the right conditions for life. And maybe on just one in a billion would have intelligent life. If that is the case, the chance is just 1 in 10 we are the furthest technically. In the universe, a head start of a million years for a race isn't that much. In a million years, if we don't blow ourselves up, I think we might have found out between-stars space travel, if it is possible.

The universe is just to freaking large.