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Originally Posted by crockett
How do you know they aren't here right now? Maybe they farted their way through the galaxy and are killing humans off with cancers and by controlling Dick Cheney's mind?
Maybe they see us as we see a cockroach or an ant. Do you try to communicate with cockroaches or ants? Maybe they just want to kill us off and their concept of time is different from ours.
Maybe they are perfectly happy taking a few hundred years to kill off the human race so they can then farm broccoli on our planet while setting up shop on Europa to also kill off the Space Monkeys living in the ocean there.
Maybe their only goal is to kill, making communication unnecessary.
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I don't disagree that the assumption that they are not here now could be the problem. We very well could already be colonized. But again, using Drake's equation, if it has happened once like that, then more than one microbe would have colonized more than 1 Earth-like planet just do to that huge #s. It doesn't make sense to me that life is easily replicated, due to the equation, but colonization only happens 1x with 1 planet. Not that it couldn't, the universe is a nutty place, anything goes.
But I'm not poo pooing the idea that they are here now, in fact, I think life here did come from something on an asteroid or comet, but I don't think that was planned, it was random. There's also some good math that shows life actually began around the time the universe did- 13 billion years ago, well before the Earth was formed. But again, random. Sartre was right!
