It's also just a matter of distance. Even mankind's very first faint radio waves, that travel at light speed, have crossed a bubble of only a 100 lightyears radius. The milky way about 1000 times as big. Distance to nearest galaxy 25000 times a big
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A bigger issues is that, considering the enormous time spans, it will not be humankind, but it's successor to colonize space. We will be as 'happy' as orangutans are with the current success of primates.
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Political policy regarding public funding of any research is fueled by popular thinking. Popular thinking, in our age (possibly in every age) is guided by our story tellers. The problem with story telling is that it requires characters. A lifeless lonely universe doesn't sell.
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https://xkcd.com/2074/ , the big filter already?
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Bostrom's simulation argument is a mere magician's trick where he subtly equivocates on which "universe" he is talking about midway through the argument. Pretty fun if you suspend your critical thinking, but not appropriate for a math feed IMO as math lives and dies by rigor.
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My hypothesis: the Great Filter is in our future: intelligence realizes that conscience is a construct of the body, not eternal nor transferable, before large scale or distant space travel is possible. So intelligent life is meaningless and civilizations suicide or bore to death.
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The current status of our research in the areas of biology, AI and space travel hints that we are close to that realization.
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true words, our generation may not witness the aliens but in future there's possibility...
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Am still sure that, in past, aliens have visited our planet, not just once, maybe many a times!
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With so many billion possible options for life to exist [Space] there is a very high probability that it has occured. However, for it to be discovered within human existence [Time] and within similar levels of evolution makes that probability of infinitely less.
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