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Imapanda
Sep 12, 2008

Majoris Felidae Peditum

Who What Now posted:

So? His claims were at least made using observable evidence and not merely a random feeling they once had. What's your basis for belief that there is an interstellar traveling intelligent race out there?

It's not super crazy to theorize that any advanced space-faring intelligent civilizations have cooperated long enough, and have had such an enormous headstart to develop their technologies, that whatever forms of observation and displays of their prowess to humanity would be viewed as magic; maybe some crazy form of cloaking tech that none of our current tools can detect. For all we know, even our basis for far future science fiction (dyson spheres n' poo poo) could be compared to single-celled simplicity to any kind of greater intelligences.

Like, hypothetically, if humans never evolved in their warlike greedy state, and progressed only for the purpose of scientific advancement and peaceful curiosity. We can never predict what we would become if we give this kind of development thousands, millions, or even billions of years of unstopping progression. The universe is large enough that the mathematical likeliness still produce promising numbers for life out there, judging from our current understandings to the requirements for starting biological evolution.

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