doesn't become as much of a limiting factor? A lot can change in a few centuries.
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jokes aside, at least there's a non-zero chance we'll get to witness discovery of alien life in our lifetimes
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Curious - do you think it's unlikely due to lack of tech, distances involved and/or lack of aliens at all?
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sheer scale of time and space factors in Drake equation, impedance mismatch with life scale constants
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I think that assumes that life only exists on human timescales. We may not be late to the party though. 1/2
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also possible that life is an expression of complexity in the universe, hence no extremely old civs


