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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."
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.
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An excellent example of ignoring evidence that doesn't suit the modern demimedieval paradigm; as if Earth is still a uniquely privileged planet at the centre of the universe.
The galaxy IS well and truly colonised already. This is a purblind backwater. The problems with SETI are twofold; 1 - It assumes cosmos-faring cultures will be using primitive means of communication confined to a narrow and noisy band of wavelengths; 2 - 'Modern' science has no idea of the nature of the universe, and fails to take account of shifts in those useless signals as they traverse the continually accreting fine structure of spacetime.
We fail to recognise the finely grained signals that permeate everything we are and do.
See also http://newilluminati.blog-city.com/holographic_multiverse.htm for a little more insight.
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