Originally Posted by Paul Markham

The Earth has had life on it for 700 million years, man for 1 million. 120 years ago we invented the radio. In 1974 we sent the first radio signals into space.

You're waiting for another life form to develop the same way we have. Which is fucking unlikely. Even with a billion stars out there.

If an asteroid hadn't wiped out the dinosaurs, or climate change megafauna. Who knows if we would have developed? The way we are going we could destroy the Earth.