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?
This is the real problem. For any meaningful contact to be established, an alien race would need some kind of wormhole/warp technology, and the fact that no alien race has established contact with us yet is (in my opinion) pretty damning evidence that such a technology is not possible.
They'd have to have a general interest in exploration for exploration's sake, which I think is a reasonable assumption for intelligence. By the time they get to space, there's just so much abundance in the stars just around your home that - what would be the point of exploring for more resources? They'd have to also have some interest in exploring just because.