Alan Boyle brings a very interesting group of theories about the possibility of encounters with aliens that I found intreaging.
The ideas are brought by astronomers and by an artificial intelligence researcher gave me a different perspective on what we believe to be true.
The astronomer Jeff Bennett speculates
there might be 100,000 Earthlike planets in our galaxy where intelligent life could have arisen over the past 5 billion years. If you average that out, that comes to one galactic civilization for every 50,000 years. His conclusion? The typical alien civilization will be at least 50,000 years older than ours.
“I find myself personally hesitant to imagine anything that far advanced,” Bennett told me. “No one imagined the Internet 50 years ago, and we’re trying to imagine what things would be like after 50,000 years of technological development? I just don’t think we could make really good guesses, other than to say it will be incredible.”
Putting it like that is nothing less than mind blowing to me.
This quote is just a teaser to his post. I highly recomend you go in to
read it and get your grey cells stimulated!
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