12-25-2017, 10:24 PM
(12-20-2017, 06:49 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Think of how long our modern technology has existed for. Cellphones & personal computers roughly 30 years, and improving every day. Rocket technology 70 some years, same with nuclear. Cars just over a 100 years. Planes 90 some years. So basically all these advances of our technology, medicine, science, education mainly has been accelerating at a high pace in the last 200 years. Thats just a generalization too, not to get picky on numbers or anything.
But lets say an alien intelligent species began their advances in those things 100,000 years ago, or 1 million years ago lets say. If we have advanced this far in 200 years, alien species could have been advancing for much much longer than we have.
Here is another idea I like to play with. Most scientists agree that an asteroid or comet ended the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Then from point on all life changed on earth that has led up to the current day. What if that asteroid or comet had hit 66 million years ago let's say. Granted its a very generic thought, but it would be possible that where we are at today as a civilization would have been 1 million years ago.
Not trying to argue or anything, just throwing some other thoughts out there on this.
Yep,
Just in our galaxy there are perhaps 1 billion stars ? They don't really know. The % is very high there are numerous life supporting capable planets just in our neighborhood. Dozens, hundreds ? It's a pretty good bet there's intelligent life very near us on the universe scale.
Now in the universe it's a slam dunk ! There's just way to much out there for it to be devoid of intelligent life. And like you and others have said it's probably very likely there's life out there thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years older than ours.
Speed of light barrier ? Like you speak of they used to say man will never fly. There may be life out there that thinks of the speed of light like we think of driving to the store, child's play.
Kinda different subject but by the way I don't think the history of the earth is even close to what we've been taught. Or in other words we were way off in the initial thesis.
How all of this comes together and what is to come ?
But it's a very safe bet we're not alone. And I'd say it's a decent bet there's intelligent life out there that's way ahead of us.