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    1. Nathan J Robinson‏ @NathanJRobinson 19 Dec 2020

      I find it so strange that anyone thinks humans could be "alone in the universe." The universe is vast. There are clearly tons of aliens. And if they're developing technology at a similar pace to us, then we're probably all about to meet each other soon. It's going to be bizarre.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2020
      Replying to @NathanJRobinson

      Even if the universe were teaming with technological advanced species, there's still the reality that you can't travel faster than light, which means for all intents & purposes we might as well be alone in the universe. There's no effect way to meet ET.

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    3. Ivor Tossell‏Verified account @ivortossell 19 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @NathanJRobinson

      Isn’t the bigger blooper here the assumption that we’re all on the same timeframe? This tweet is about flukeish rapid tech advancement on the order of centuries, after billions of years of... not.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ivortossell @NathanJRobinson

      That's also a problem. A civilization advanced enough to leave the planet has existed on earth only for the last 50 years (in a universe that is 13 billion years old). Obviously other planets would develop at different time scale.

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        2. Chris Turner‏Verified account @theturner 19 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ivortossell @NathanJRobinson

          Not to mention the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. Even if some other civilization happened to be at our evolutionary state or beyond, how did its random trajectory generators shoot anything anywhere near us?

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        3. Olde Dude‏ @therealgoatrode 19 Dec 2020
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          What if the aliens have very long lives? We think 100 years as the upper limit but there’s no reason that’s universal. If so, it seems possible they could visit us.

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        1. General Kanye_Trump. (Space Force) 💎‏ @Barack_McBush 19 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ivortossell @NathanJRobinson

          Not to get too Trekkie here but these aliens may have technology we can't fathom, spacial worm holes, travelling in the quantum realm, can travel at the speed at light but are immortal or very long spans,etc. We might be just too primitive of a species to be interesting to them.

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        2. A Social Medium‏ @thossaught 19 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ivortossell @NathanJRobinson

          Well, you need 5by or so to develop richness in metallic elements, and this planet needed 3by to evolve complex multicellular life, so we're probably not the earliest but I think it's safe to say we're not the latest, I wouldn't say it's unlikely that we're at a cusp...

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        3. A Social Medium‏ @thossaught 19 Dec 2020
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          within a few 10s-100s my of some sort of flourishing. But there's no practical way to travel between stars on mechanical craft like we travel between continents according to published science. And we can't talk to anyone if we kill our planet in the next 10y.

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        1. grahamsw‏ @grahamsw 19 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ivortossell @NathanJRobinson

          It's a bit like the way our ancestors kept walking round the earth - in evolutionary terms it doesn't take long (<10,000 years). It would take a few million to cross the galaxy. That could have happened thousands of times by now.

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        1. Dog Profile Pic‏ @HowlinFantods 19 Dec 2020
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          Another interesting part is our tiny window of ”easy” discovery. How quickly we went from analog to digital radio communications. There’s this brief blip in time where we were broadcasting out distinguishable analog radio signals that’re now mostly static to an alien observer.

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