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Old 10-13-2017, 07:44 AM   #7489 (permalink)
Frownland
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If life is able to technologically surpass where we're at now, by great measure even, it stands to reason that in at least one case there would be something we could detect but there isn't.
I just don't have that kind of faith. Why would our planet stand out? How can they differentiate our satellites out of infinitesimal plain ole meteors?

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If scope is the problem then the lack of technology to overcome it, even with the limitation of light speed, is also the problem.
Absolutely. However, even if that technology exists somewhere in the universe, that doesn't mean that it's been used to its fullest extent i.e. scanning the whole universe for life and stopping by to say what's up.
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