SETI again

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: SETI again

# 8573 byjoe@... on July 21, 2006, 3:01 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On Jul 20, 2006, at 22:32 UTC, Robert wrote:

> we cant find evidence of them, they must not exist.

No, it's: if they existed, some of them would be much older than us, and would have colonized the entire galaxy long ago, in which case either (a) they would be patently obvious, or (b) they would be hiding from us. Since we can't find evidence of them, (a) is clearly not the case. So either they don't exist, or they are purposely hiding themselves. (Either way, SETI will continue to fail.)

Best,
- Joe

Joe Strout -- joe@...