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And timing! With humans only being 150,000 to 200,000 years old, and really only intelligently processing input from the stars for less than a century, we're ba
by cheschire 7y ago
And timing! With humans only being 150,000 to 200,000 years old, and really only intelligently processing input from the stars for less than a century, we're basically talking about two people trying to wave at each other from airplanes that aren't even flying over the same country.
- jacquesm 7y agoIsn't Homo Sapiens > 300K years old? Not to detract from your wider point which is completely valid.
- cheschire 7y agoIt's a spectrum, really. Homo sapiens are generally about that old, but when you start talking modern anatomy, behaviors, etc, what we would recognize as "human" is much more limited. If anything, what you bring up kind of goes right along with my point! There may be life out there, but what is life, or intelligent life for that matter? How would we know what we were looking at if we even saw it?
- jacquesm 7y ago> what is life, or intelligent life for that matter? Dolphins? > How would we know what we were looking at if we even saw it? We try very hard not to see it!