Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
Our galaxy is mostly empty space on a human scale, and we're barely explored our own solar system. We just poked a tiny finger outside our star's gravity well. Even signals from intelligent life close by in a galactic sense might not have reached us yet. (Or, what Morrus said.)
Why do we assume that other intelligent life will look, think, or communicate like us? Maybe they use point-to-point laser communication, or use broad spectrum IR that is so red-shifted by the time it reaches us it has faded into the background radiation. Maybe they communicate by wiggling gravitrons, emitting Higgs bosons, or with massive bursts of radio waves from dying stars.
We're pretty arrogant as a species to extrapolate a massive paradox from a data set of one.
Why do we assume that other intelligent life will look, think, or communicate like us? Maybe they use point-to-point laser communication, or use broad spectrum IR that is so red-shifted by the time it reaches us it has faded into the background radiation. Maybe they communicate by wiggling gravitrons, emitting Higgs bosons, or with massive bursts of radio waves from dying stars.
We're pretty arrogant as a species to extrapolate a massive paradox from a data set of one.