Parkview_Pirate |
07-16-2017 07:43 AM |
If there is intelligent life, or life of any form, elsewhere in the universe, it certainly makes sense that it would encounter the same forces of mass extinction we've seen here on earth.
But even more importantly, IMHO, is the time and space dimensions in play. While the earth is 4.5 Billion years old, give or take a few decades, man has only evolved to a point within the last few thousand years to be considered "intelligent", though of course that's up for debate. And only within the last 130 years or so, has man invented radio which would make our version of life detectable (or at least one way it could be detected). So, those earliest of radio waves, and even the SOS from the Titanic, are just now edging past 100 light years away from the planet, which is like setting sail for England in a rowboat from Atlantic City, and not even having the entire boat off the sand yet.
In other words, we shouldn't be too surprised that we haven't discovered life elsewhere.
However, when the day comes that intelligent alien life discovers us, and parks their star cruiser out by the moon, it'll be time to sell that Apple stock you've been hanging on to...
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