We have a fascination with finding the "others". Maybe they're just not wired that way. To them we may be just "one of many others". Maybe they will have the same regard for us that the Spaniards did for the Native Americans. Maybe they are already familiar with other species of aliens and finding one more is no big deal. Maybe they just want one thing from us, like neutronium, or a blueprint for a time machine, and if we can't provide it in trade, they just don't care about us, one way or the other.
I've often wondered if maybe some really exotic critters (like slime molds or stromatolites or sponges) had a highly advanced intelligence and civilization on time scales and on a chemical basis so that they shared no sensory inputs or communications methods with us. We wouldn't even be able to recognize each other as sentient.
The possibilities are endless, which is why I keep getting drawn to astrobiology.
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That is the definition of "alien".
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- Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets
- There's no PROOF for their claim. (n/t)
- Translation: Very good news for SETI weenies.
- I was never too worried about it
- How about admitting: "We don't know"...and search from there
- re: I was never too worried about it
- colonization's always been a one-way trip
- It's obvious you don't believe space aliens will be Democrats. (n/t)
- "Intelligence"
- Fermi Shmermi
- It is just nice...
- I was never too worried about it