Sep 4, 2019 04:01 AM
(This post was last modified: Sep 4, 2019 04:02 AM by C C.)
(Sep 2, 2019 07:26 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: https://www.businessinsider.com/humans-c...ti-2017-11
[...] This is the first radio message of its kind designed for a direct response at a specific time. GJ 273b lives in another star system 12 light years away.
That means if intelligent life responds we could make first contact in just 24 years."
At least they can gradually start ticking this and others off the checklist.
It would be an astounding coincidence if complex life not only evolved on two "nearby" worlds but also both yielded technological civilizations at the same time (tendencies of humanoid intelligence). So unlikely that it might be more rational to consider it the "norm" rather than incredibly rare chance: That the galaxy is actually that thick with inventive, progressive sapience. In which case there should be communications blaring from every direction, unavoidable in terms of detection.
Which there isn't. So either tool makers that are open-ended in terms of advancement are either exceedingly rare... Or the majority of what's out there is covert and indifferent or long-since arrived at some stage like that in its development.