SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET

EagleHasLanded writes "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is 50 years old next month, and still no sign of intelligent alien life. Paul Davies of the Beyond Center (also Chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup) says it's time to re-think and expand the search for ET."

Comments

Re:Fermi Paradox anyone??

[afabbro]

You miss the point of the Fermi Paradox entirely. Given that humans have only been in existence on earth for 200K Years, why is it that no aliens have colonised Earth *before* we got here? It would take only one expansionist alien culture to exist in the billions of years the galaxy has existed before us and the Earth and the entire galaxy would have been well and truely colonized already.

I mean some relatively straight-forward extrapolations of humans shows *us* colonizing the galaxy in a few million years.

...assuming some sort of FTL travel, which is a pretty far-fetched extrapolation.

Re:Patience!

[Captain Hook]

I wish I had mod points