2013-06-08, 09:51 PM
Link Wrote:Sure, we're still a fledgling for a planet, but the possibilities of there being a life form as smart as, or smarter than, us within reach of easily finding us, I would think is nigh improbable. It's possible, sure, since we don't even know our own galaxy very well, but I personally don't think it's very probable.
Our radio waves can extend about 200 million lightyears before being useless; that's like, a pixel sized dot, on an overview of just the Milky Way. We are so primitive, our means of communication cannot reach them yet, and they don't even know we are here. Sure, 200 million lightyears is like a hundred thousand solar systems or something, but that is just...nothing. Even if the life:no life planet ratio is 0.00000001%, that could still be millions if not billions of planets, the universe is huge. The universe is so huge, even an advanced civilization would need SOME form of indication of where to start looking, in order to find our planet...planets with the absolute peak of technological advancement would know about us and every other planet with life, but they don't care about us; why should they, they are what humans would likely interpret to be gods, and that's how our relationship in all matters would be to them. A human can't help or harm a god, we are just toys of middling interest.