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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Who the **** is that quoted from?
And what does Frownland's continued use of the word "scope" as a reply mean?
Let's not forget that there may be alien civilisations out there, but they may not want to get in touch with us, to say nothing of the ones who are so far ahead of us technologically that we are nothing to them, totally unnoticeable. As someone said on Year Million recently: "When you walk by an anthill, do you think about communicating with the ants?"
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Quote was from Forbes.
National Hurricane Center
All I can say is that if a hurricane is coming your way be prepared. Especially with your sister. Have a supply of food and water a flashlight and radio and batteries and medicine. Be prepared for no water and no electricity. I hope it doesn't hit you like that. Where I live it's a constant worry during hurricane season. Nate, Harvey, and Irma all clipped us but luckily just on the peripheral.
I remember that anthill hypothesis from Michio Kaku. Iirc, he makes that point in The Physics of the Impossible. Fun book. The retort is the same as I said to Frown. Other theoretical physicists will argue that it doesn't account for alien life that wants to be seen. It's not just dependent on them noticing us. And to say we can't notice them because we're as relatively simple as ants still doesn't account for the diversity of communication that could be expected from the Drake equation. It should be they exist at varying points of technological advances.
Frownland mentions scope as a synonym for scale. If they're 3 billion light years away no matter how you slice it they're 3 billion years away from any sort of contact.