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surfinmuse · 06-30-2005, 10:48 AM

What a great discussion, thanks for starting it, scaeagles. Thought I'd offer my $0.02...

I do believe there's other life out there, maybe super intelligent, maybe not.

My thought is that a species (or planet, etc.) advanced enough for space travel of this magnitude to visit us, won't actually bother doing so. To loosely paraphrase a line from the new War of the Worlds movie, it's like a non-relationship between us humans and maggots: they do their thing, we do ours, we don't feel compelled to learn their language and communicate with them on their level.

On the other hand, if there was a species out there that's kinda like us, then they won't have have the means to travel to us anyway, so once again: they do their thing, we do ours (yes we have SETI, and unmanned remotes, etc.... and who knows what the next lifetime will bring?).

Thanks again for the discussion, been my pleasure reading.

06-30-2005, 10:48 AM	#1
surfinmuse Mind the Gap Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 123	What a great discussion, thanks for starting it, scaeagles. Thought I'd offer my $0.02... I do believe there's other life out there, maybe super intelligent, maybe not. My thought is that a species (or planet, etc.) advanced enough for space travel of this magnitude to visit us, won't actually bother doing so. To loosely paraphrase a line from the new War of the Worlds movie, it's like a non-relationship between us humans and maggots: they do their thing, we do ours, we don't feel compelled to learn their language and communicate with them on their level. On the other hand, if there was a species out there that's kinda like us, then they won't have have the means to travel to us anyway, so once again: they do their thing, we do ours (yes we have SETI, and unmanned remotes, etc.... and who knows what the next lifetime will bring?). Thanks again for the discussion, been my pleasure reading.
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