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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3624554, member: 44"] 1) you have to separate entities to find where the stars are. 2) I don’t think you appreciate the vastness of space. Yes you’re doubling spaceship or probe doubling in infinite amount of time which is an infinite number. They still have to travel through a vast amount of empty, which brings us to #3 3) first you’ve got to be able to build a lightspeed spaceship. We can’t, but let’s assume someone else can. Your example says there’s more than enough time to visit every star in the galaxy. It’s not quite that simple. First the circumstances have to be right for life to be created. We’ve yet to find that on any world but our own. Our space travels in its infancy though, so let’s assume that’s not an issue. Second the life has to evolve into intelligent life. Third that intelligent life has to develop technology where they can space travel. But not just any space travel, light speed space travel. Fourth it has to decide that it is worth the enormous resources to search every nook and cranny of the galaxy. Five, it has to find life at a point where contact makes sense. So that means that the two societies have to have developed and at least a somewhat parallel basis. If we’re going to make all these presumptions about science and technology I think we also can make one that societies will rise and fall in the same way they have on earth. So not only do you have to have the ability to find someone else, they have to exist at the same time you exist. Even with all the assumptions we’ve made, that becomes very very difficult to do. The proof is the Fermi paradox. If life exists why can’t we see any trace of it? Now I’m not only saying contact I’m saying radio waves or any indication that anything else is out there. Is it possible that we haven’t had any success yet, because there’s nothing else to find? [/QUOTE]

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