2012-03-13, 06:47 PM
Luxeraph Wrote:Huh?
There is also unlimited space but limited time (since the big bang), plus it took us airplanes and even satellites to find some humans (not to mention that we are still discovering new species regulary) and thats just our tiny little planet, wonder how much time and technology it would require for any other sentient life to find us and thats thinking they are looking for us.
In other words, you could have a planet with sentient life for each star but that doesn't mean they would act like us, heck not even most of the people on earth care about extraterrestrial life.
If you had sentient life in every star system, then how would every single one of those be as slow as us? There's been a lot of time since the Big Bang. Consider the fact that almost all recent technological achievement has been in the last 100-150 years. Consider also all the different cultures that basically did nothing different from each other in terms of technology. You have cultures that go back 20,000 years and more. When we gained sentience, we basically did nothing for a very long time (Once again, at a technology standpoint).
If there was sentient life at every single star system, there would undoubtedly races that did not have these issues. It's very possible there would be at least a few races that had no technological standstills at all.
Yes, not many people care about extraterrestrial life on Earth, but that's also because even if we knew they existed...what could we possibly do about it? They haven't visited us, and we can't possibly visit them. Hell, a lot of people are stuck in the mindset that God created us and no one else, and therefore we're the only race in the universe with sentience.