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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radaceus" data-source="post: 6863799" data-attributes="member: 6796086">Touching on the Fermi paradox,what if our solar system in the outer rim of the galaxy is just in the unknown, in our own existance we have only come into contact with other peoples around the globe recently ( yes this also arguable, but in our known history, its in the last 500 years). What if we are the Aboriginals of that last continent yet to be colonized?What if there is a golden mean to determine sentient life, that once irradiated cosmic goo becomes lodged into the primal clay of a young planetary system the clock of existence begins. Add into the mix all the variables for a young galaxy, collisions, novas, and etc, that set back the growth rate of an intelligent species ( read: nuked into the stone ages and global extinction events); interfering with the perfect parameters of a species evolving to interstellar colonization. Also add into  he mix, as noted above, how difficult it would be for our species to travel for a million years across the galaxy (as suggested by Fermi) with our current means. Homo Sapiens, young on the scene, are only now at a pivotal moment between self-annihilation and preservation of the species , the most likely pretense of our planet hopping will be to escape our own destruction, as a last ditch effort. This last point, superimposed onto the parameters, infers: how many species of intelligent life can evolve past the warlike nature inherent in the advance of technology in order to work as a whole to become an interstellar race.And all of this aside, back to what TomB mentioned: are we capable of understanding alien intelligence? When we only recently have come to understand other intelligences on par to our own in our own biosphere!</blockquote>

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