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Imagine the Voyager probe ending up on a planet and being discovered in 500 million years. It wasn't sent with extinguish plans, not will it be able to communic

Imagine the Voyager probe ending up on a planet and being discovered in 500 million years. It wasn't sent with extinguish plans, not will it be able to communicate.

coldtea 3y ago
That will be something quite feasible for an alien civilization to build, and highly believable, if we found something like that. Visits from actual beings (that overwise stay incognito), travelling tens or even thousands of light years, hyperadvanced sci-fi technologies like FTL and invisibility (suggested above) and so on, not so much.
- worksonmine 3y ago
  Why not? To them it could be like any other tuesday and communication could be pointless. We have a tendency to see ourselves as so important but forget how we act. We still discover new species and catalogue them, but many of those have probably been seen before by someone who didn't care.
  - coldtea 3y ago
    >Why not? To them it could be like any other tuesday If we're going for "with magic, anything's possible" (but just substitute magic with "technology") then sure...
    - worksonmine 3y ago
      "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". In the last century lots of things that were considered science fiction has become normal parts of our lives. And not that long ago "aliens don't exist" was the default and only crazies believed in them. Now it's mainstream that there is a high probability at least somewhere in the universe, the only argument needed is that we exist, so of course it could happen again or before. We're not as special as we like to think. We've had hearings regarding UFOs (yes, yes, I know it doesn't imply aliens) in the congress. But if you want to reduce it to magic go ahead. And the part you quoted was regarding them choosing not to communicate with us, if that wasn't clear.
      - coldtea 3y ago
        >In the last century lots of things that were considered science fiction has become normal parts of our lives All of those things are within the laws of physics. >And not that long ago "aliens don't exist" was the default and only crazies believed in them. The latter is still the case now.
        worksonmine 3y ago
        > All of those things are within the laws of physics. And infrared doesn't? That said it wasn't always in the laws of physics, and they may still be wrong, they have changed in the last century. > The latter is still the case now. I'm not sure most people would agree with you, more likely to answer "I don't know, maybe". I find it very strange when people are so certain about uncertain topics, difficult to relate.

Imagine the Voyager probe ending up on a planet and being discovered in 500 million years. It wasn't sent with extinguish plans, not will it be able to communicate.

coldtea 3y ago

That will be something quite feasible for an alien civilization to build, and highly believable, if we found something like that. Visits from actual beings (that overwise stay incognito), travelling tens or even thousands of light years, hyperadvanced sci-fi technologies like FTL and invisibility (suggested above) and so on, not so much.

worksonmine 3y ago
Why not? To them it could be like any other tuesday and communication could be pointless. We have a tendency to see ourselves as so important but forget how we act. We still discover new species and catalogue them, but many of those have probably been seen before by someone who didn't care.
- coldtea 3y ago
  >Why not? To them it could be like any other tuesday If we're going for "with magic, anything's possible" (but just substitute magic with "technology") then sure...
  - worksonmine 3y ago
    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". In the last century lots of things that were considered science fiction has become normal parts of our lives. And not that long ago "aliens don't exist" was the default and only crazies believed in them. Now it's mainstream that there is a high probability at least somewhere in the universe, the only argument needed is that we exist, so of course it could happen again or before. We're not as special as we like to think. We've had hearings regarding UFOs (yes, yes, I know it doesn't imply aliens) in the congress. But if you want to reduce it to magic go ahead. And the part you quoted was regarding them choosing not to communicate with us, if that wasn't clear.
    - coldtea 3y ago
      >In the last century lots of things that were considered science fiction has become normal parts of our lives All of those things are within the laws of physics. >And not that long ago "aliens don't exist" was the default and only crazies believed in them. The latter is still the case now.
      - worksonmine 3y ago
        > All of those things are within the laws of physics. And infrared doesn't? That said it wasn't always in the laws of physics, and they may still be wrong, they have changed in the last century. > The latter is still the case now. I'm not sure most people would agree with you, more likely to answer "I don't know, maybe". I find it very strange when people are so certain about uncertain topics, difficult to relate.