I must have missed the thread where someone said that aliens wouldn't want to come here. I'm sure they would. I'm equally sure they haven't. Do the math. You would have better odds of finding the same grain of sand 10 years apart. It's estimated that there are trillions of planets. Trillions. Let's just say it's 2 trillion, rather than the estimated 8 to 10 trillion. If you were able to visit 1000 different planets every single day, searching for life, it would take you 547,900 years to check them all. That includes Sundays. Do you really believe that we are that special? 1000 planets a day, every day, for over half a million years. Think about it. The odds that we've been visited are so miniscule, it's rediculous. Consider this as well: Mankind has only existed here for a small fraction of this young planet's history. I've heard it said best in a 24 hour analogy. If you took the entire timespan that the earth has existed, and crammed it into 24 hours, mankind was only around for the last 30 seconds of the 24 hour period. In that brief sliver of time, we did something that encouraged someone else to travel here? You would have better odds of finding a high school marching band in which every student had identical DNA and fingerprints. You'd have a better chance at winning the lottery 10,000 times. In a row.
It's a very fun subject, I agree, but c'mon guys. Do the math yourself.
Take care,
-Chris
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