Extraterrestrials Probably Haven't Found Us - Yet

kasparn writes "The Guardian today has a story about the Danish astrophysicist Rasmus Bjoerk, who recently conducted simulations on how long it will take to colonize the Milky Way. The basic idea is to send out probes in different directions (including various heights above the galactic plane). He estimates that it will take some 10 billion years to explore 4 % of the Milky Way. Since the age of the Universe is of the same order, his conclusion is that aliens can't have had time required to find us yet."

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Re:Based on poor assumptions

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Great to see minds looking in the right directions. Hope you don't mind the refinery or any of our moon bases on luna. Look for more in mexico next year around August. Bye for now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEU2KFLFAk P.S. The disk image is in binary spanish. We don't like hoaxers. We don't like giving gifts. We are going to be here for a very long time. You've already done considerable harm to your world without our help.