Unless I'm missing something, the chances of intelligent alien life seem pretty good. The next question is: How do we summon them to Earth to bring space communism and/or anal probing?
Unless I'm missing something, the chances of intelligent alien life seem pretty good. The next question is: How do we summon them to Earth to bring space communism and/or anal probing?
We don't. The galaxy is so big that we could probably never have a dialog with another species. Decades of time delay between messages. Unclear how to decode or translate. Do they use binary, phase shifting radio frequency, do they use any similar language steu ture to ours?
We will see if we don't globally warm outsleves back to the stone age. That would mean we had a hundred year window out of the hundred thousand or so we have been a species.
Then visiting would require hundres of years and more resources than we have used for anything ever to do.
I always think of the WOW! signal. We received just a blast of radio but about the only think we could do with it is just remark, "yeah that was a lot of energy at once." Could've been an attempt at communication but we couldn't record anything intelligble with the tech we had and we didn't really have the tech to keep a decent copy of it on hand for future decoding.