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Old 26-04-2010, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by leon View Post
If there were some sort of life out there that could actually communicate and think, and maybe zoom about this universe, as suggested at times, then why have they not done anything about it.

If some exsited close to our closest Star at 4.something light years away then it would take them over 4 years to reach us at the speed of light, unless they knew Scotty of coarse, Beam Us Up Scottie).

Leon
Trouble is we all seem to view alien life through a "Star Trek" prism - including their capabilities and intentions.

Exobiology is a fascinating and obviously hypothetical (at present) subject - it would be nice to detect even the excretia of life on our closest planets.
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