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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."
Lately I've been thinking that the natural progression of any intelligent life form all follows a very similar path. We all do the stone age, bronze age, industrial age, and whatever you call our current age until someone gets the bright idea to try and recreate the 'big bang'! Eventually, curiosity inevitably compels each race to speculate that they can find their "<insert name here> Boson" by hurling particles at each other at damn near the speed of light! Before every race's top scientists can even say 'oops', those minute little black holes that were 'supposed' to degrade don't...and another giant black hole is born. Some day, some race may have a person like that German woman last week who got her lawsuit thrown out actually win in her bid to stop the experiments. That race will be the first! I'll bet that they will go on to find that black holes aren't actually created from stars collapsing in on themselves but that they are the remnants of yet another civilization whose German high court rejected the bid from the only sane person on that planet that only wanted to exercise caution and prevent Armageddon!
As history repeats itself, SETI will likely never discover an artificial radio signal due to the fact that every ET only becomes capable of transmitting the noise we could detect less than a century before their own 'big bang' ;)