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Can we attempt to utilize some higher brain function for a minuet here please?
- It makes no logical sense to travel outside of your home system even if you had the technology
- Any travel outside of ones home system would be done via probes, again because it makes no logical sense to send an organism
- If we accept for a moment that life is marked a sufficient degree of complexity in a system, given the scale of the universe, this degree of complexity must be relatively common place
- Given that by necessity such complexities must be common place, this provides even less reason for another organism to seek us out
- Furthermore, a life form advanced enough to transport itself or more likely to transport a probe, from it's home system to our home system is going to be so much more advanced than we are, that this once again begs the question, why bother?
To sum up:
- Transporting organisms across such distances is stupidly impracticable
- With the application of Occams Razor it is much more likely that organisms such as ourselves are common place than not, which provides even less incentive for another organism to seek us out
- The conditions of Earth are even less unique than we had previously believed, making it just as unlikely that some ET organism would have a particular interest in our rock as they would have a particular interest in us
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The big one: What is the evidence we started with? >>> "I encountered some beings/I witnessed some technology"
Okie doke, let's apply Occams Razor, what are the nearest entities? Ourselves
What is the nearest thing analogous to technology? Our technology.
When you hear hoof beats you don't expect to see Zebra's, you expect to see horses.
- It makes no logical sense to travel outside of your home system even if you had the technology
- Any travel outside of ones home system would be done via probes, again because it makes no logical sense to send an organism
- If we accept for a moment that life is marked a sufficient degree of complexity in a system, given the scale of the universe, this degree of complexity must be relatively common place
- Given that by necessity such complexities must be common place, this provides even less reason for another organism to seek us out
- Furthermore, a life form advanced enough to transport itself or more likely to transport a probe, from it's home system to our home system is going to be so much more advanced than we are, that this once again begs the question, why bother?
To sum up:
- Transporting organisms across such distances is stupidly impracticable
- With the application of Occams Razor it is much more likely that organisms such as ourselves are common place than not, which provides even less incentive for another organism to seek us out
- The conditions of Earth are even less unique than we had previously believed, making it just as unlikely that some ET organism would have a particular interest in our rock as they would have a particular interest in us
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The big one: What is the evidence we started with? >>> "I encountered some beings/I witnessed some technology"
Okie doke, let's apply Occams Razor, what are the nearest entities? Ourselves
What is the nearest thing analogous to technology? Our technology.
When you hear hoof beats you don't expect to see Zebra's, you expect to see horses.
