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Simple life is probably fairly common. But intelligent life that's reached a technological level such that we would notice them is probably pretty rare. It coul
by UncleOxidant 3y ago
Simple life is probably fairly common. But intelligent life that's reached a technological level such that we would notice them is probably pretty rare. It could be that we're the only ones in this galaxy that are currently at this detectable level and the distances to other galaxies is just too far to be able to detect those that might in other galaxies.
- Izkata 3y agoWe actually have a piece of evidence for this: How long the dinosaurs were around compared to humans without developing technology.
- aswanson 3y agoYeah. We've only given off signals detectable in space for 200 years and have only existed for around 200000 years as a species. Less than a blink of an eye from a galactic time perspective.
- PM_me_your_math 3y ago[dead]
- deafpolygon 3y agoAnd how many times did a potential intelligent (human-like) species evolve in that period before being wiped out by predators?
- DemocracyFTW2 3y ago> dinosaurs were around [...] without developing technology That's what they want you to think but the historical records of the USS Voyager clearly show that some branches of dinosaurs (haplosurus I believe) did eventually evolve to develop space travelling technology (which is how they survived the Chicxulub event).