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An advanced civilization that can send out a probe like that also likely has tools to cloak its existence to us. You could very well have a situation where the
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
An advanced civilization that can send out a probe like that also likely has tools to cloak its existence to us. You could very well have a situation where the mothership docks outside of a solar system, cloaks itself, and sends out a probe, and the probe eventually makes it back to the mothership.
I really think we are limited by our imagination and anthropomorphism. A civilization a million years ahead of us in development is likely capable of things we can’t even imagine.
I always like to remind myself that our own civilization is at most only 10k years old. If we survive, I can’t imagine what we would be like in 10x more time.
- euroderf 4y agoThis is an important point - that the chance of an alien civ being roughly at our level of technological sophistication is very low. They be either primordial critters (no space travel there) or too cool for the likes of us monkeys.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoIt's a very narrow window, isn't it? A civilization even 500 years ahead of us might be mind bogglingly advanced. If you were to travel to the 1600s and tell people that we have generative AI, spaceships, and smartphones, their brains wouldn't be able to comprehend it.