| Subject: Re: The Fermi Paradox and SETI Success |
| From: "Chris.B" <chris.b@mail.dk> |
| Date: 25/08/2008, 00:11 |
| Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,alt.sci.seti,alt.sci.planetary,talk.origins |
On Aug 24, 4:12 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@panix.com> wrote:
My "practical alternative" is two fold. I see nothing wrong
with continuing the SETI project. The other part of it though
is that I'd not expect it to show much *now*.
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--- Paul J. Gans
It would seem extraordinarily naive to think we can foresee
communication technologies more than a decade or two into the future.
I still maintain that the "when" remains infinitely more important
than the "where" or even the "if". The chance of synchronicity of
matching technologies between intelligent technological races, arising
at random, within a useful radius for meaningful communication is
vanishingly small.