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I think it's much simpler than that: if there is intelligent life, it is at the same level of development that we are.
by Giorgi 6y ago
I think it's much simpler than that: if there is intelligent life, it is at the same level of development that we are.
- meowster 6y agoI believe that's unlikely given that the universe is billions of years old, and many galaxies are older than ours.
- f6v 6y agoThe time between the emergence of procaryotes and the eukaryotes is estimated to be about 1 billion years. Last time I checked the Universe is thought to be 13.8 billion years. That’s just one order of magnitude between these two numbers. I don’t think it’s inconceivable that we’re the first intelligent life form. The life itself might be an extremely rare event. Multicellular life might be where the first great filter is.
- Izkata 6y agoAlso how long dinosaurs were around before the world reset and how quickly human civilization developed relative to that.
- patentatt 6y agoPeople always say that if life is possible, then there must be a bunch of aliens out in the universe. It may be unlikely, but one has to be first, maybe it’s us? It’s a somewhat comforting thought, I like it.
- hermitcrab 6y ago“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke
- pretendscholar 6y agoLife in other galaxies is unlikely to physically leave its own galaxy just given the vast distances involved. Life in our own galaxy takes a number of inputs that take billions of years to produce.
- pixl97 6y agoMost theories show that galaxies all started pretty quickly after the big bang. The number of mergers they have had are what is significantly different. When the universe was younger and things were closer mergers appear to have occurred at a higher rate leading to higher rates of star formation. This in turns floods a galaxy with powerful UV light, which in large amounts doesn't seem conductive to life.
- hermitcrab 6y agoGiven the age and size of the universe and how fast human technology has evolved in the last 1000 years, that would be an extraordinary coincidence.