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Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

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?

Aside from the interstellar part, though that could very well just be a matter of a theoretical breakthrough, the sheer immensity of the universe. Nigh infinite numbers of galaxies that we can see thus far from our most recent telescopes show us that the possibility of another intelligent lifeform is nearly endless. Considering the numbers in play, and the fact that we exist as a base, it's almost impossible for there not to be another intelligent life form out there.

That's not to say that we'll ever have the capability of travelling to one another's planets, or even of communicating in any way, given the distances involved.

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Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

My Imaginary GF posted:

What if they just communicate once, as if they were discovered by an indisputable lighthouse operating hundreds of thousands of lightyears away?

If we have first contact, and that contact is a message older than our species, what then?

I forsee this being the true First Contact.

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