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I struggle to see the significance of the whole are we alone or not.
If intelligent life did/does exist outside our solar system, is it still present parallel to our own? It may have existed long before us, or may long after us. The constant expectation is that we will be able to communicate, in real time. Bugger all good this is if they are extinct or not even crawlled out of the primordial soup...
And if there is, so what? Are we going to expect Them to have a solution for problems we've created and just refuse to fix things on our own? Or fear Them? Or impose ourselves on Them?
This speculation is so pointless. The question posed as the title of this thread is no different from "do you BELIEVE in aliens". Based on what to have such blind faith?
And humanity is hardly in a position of unity and common knowledge to have this question answered. We cannot accept some wretched soul trying to escape persecution today but feel entitled to think of them as a criminal, and we reckon we are ready to welcome ET? And having the question answered is not going to change anything between us.
Are our lives so empty that we demand that someone or something either confirm our existence, or worse still expect them to fix our cock ups?
If ET is out there, we are still on our own to look after our little blue planet. We only have ourselves to help us or see the place burn.
Last edited by mental4astro; 02-03-2019 at 04:57 PM.
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