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Originally Posted by bigjoe
Even though Ive been lampooning the series etc,in all seriousness.THE PROBABILITY that highly intelligent beings able to evolve, have something like an opposable thumb to build tools , a fire, let alone a spacecraft, is vanishingly small.Just to get to paramecium ,amoeba type stage and find that kind of life anywhere within thousands of light years ,would be an historic achievement.Unless some being has found a way to overcome the monster effects of aging ,inertia on an accelerating body, fuel etc,and cover vast tracks of space just to say hello!, and visit the cesspool we are creating? .And what for ?I KNOW to save us from our utter stupidity!  cheers all |
I would imagine 'curiosity' would the main reason to visit. We are the product of a 4 billion year experiment and that would be very difficult to simulate on computers of any conceivable size. If another intelligence has evolved and is capable of star travel, finding other examples of that process would have to be interesting. Especially if it is exceedingly rare.
ps. They certainly won't be coming to eat us or colonize... access to energy, raw materials and engineering at the nano scale should have been solved long ago...if they are cruising between the stars.