Ruminations on origin of life; Paul Davies (Introduction)

by BBella , Saturday, August 15, 2015, 22:56 (3387 days ago) @ David Turell

"'The question is, is ET on a planet, around a star, beaming a message at us? That's not credible. It's not credible that a civilisation 1,000 light years away would be beaming messages at Earth. Why should they?
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> "'If they can see Earth, if they have super-duper advanced technology, they have the ability to see our planet and to figure that there is intelligent life on it—moderately intelligent life on it—but they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. There were no radio telescopes; there was no radio.
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> "'In another 1,000 years they will hear the words I'm speaking now [and say], "Aha! There is intelligent life on Earth! We'll send them a message!" But it's too soon, and so we shouldn't be looking for deliberately directed messages, but looking for beacons instead.'
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> (BBella, this is why I doubt alien intrusion, the time it takes to travel.)-...said the Earth man. I do not doubt it at all, especially given how far technology can advance in just a hundred, thousand, etc years. But also, alien's don't have to come from outside our solar system, they may be based here on Earth or another dimension, etc. I have no idea. But the possibilities are endless....