Sorry, we don't have bollocks here in the US. CBP banned their import.(That's too many paragraphs of potential bollocks to sift through, I don't mind zoning out to TV mindlessness, but actively reading expected nonsense in terms of multiple long pages or paragraphs is too much to take, so I'll just take it as bollocks).(which I'm sure you intended!
I don't think colonisation & civilisation is generally stable enough to continually & gradually (slowly) colonise a galaxy, etc. I think they phase out before they can keep expanding, one of the problems.
Hehe, you guys can create enough of your own - just like most other countries! Only we hope the citizens of all our countries can sift through it!
How far away do you think we (humans) are away from being able to build self-replicating AI probes that could populate and explore the galaxy? We're a lot further along than we were when the Voyager probes were launched in the 1970s.
(Sorry, I've exhausted my ideas on alien life!
) No, but surely you can't be saying that a significant number of intelligent advanced civilisations will exist in the region of 5 to 50 million years - each civilisation is of course starting from scratch - I can't even imagine a civilisation last 1 million years, not even much more than say 10000 yrs given we're in year 2000 (albeit we have BC knowledge), but I can't imagine 1,000,0000 or even 5,000,0000 or even 50,000,0000 that you mention. Too much can go wrong.
(you're forgetting the "distance/time & communication equation" I mentioned earlier).
Right now we are literally up to our asses in confusion, or is it alligators.
Same over here minus the alligators probably! It's a hard life but many times harder for other people in less blessed circumstances - the world has never been easy on us but some have been more lucky than others in their circumstances and some have managed to overcome them. Life is varied for sure!
As far as we know Homo sapiens has been around for only about 300 000 years. Do you think it's inconceivable that within a (relatively) short space of time, we will not be able to build and despatch probes that have advanced AI and are capable of self-replication to explore the galaxy?(Sorry, I've exhausted my ideas on alien life!
(It doesn't matter if we develop self-replicating probes, we likely won't be around to hear the return communications, because our civilisation will be dead due to the thousands or muliples thereof light years of distance that is postulated between intelligent life) (the only way to overcome that is through technology that can break light speed communication & light speed travel of which light speed travel is certainly not currently possible even).
If there are such probes (and the universe - and potential civilisations - was around for approx. 10 billion years before our sun formed) then it is likely that such probes would still be extant after whatever civilizations had initially launched them and leave traces (communications, evidence of mining, whatever) for us to notice. But where is everybody?
"If they made them & if they were viable over that time period of repeated replication (think cancer?)", but probably futile to make them in the first place for the reasons I mentioned, which might prevent them from bothering making them in the first place. But you know, I don't have a lot of stake in this because it's not my main thing, I'm just thinking it through.
So, it was entirely futile for the Voyager probes to carry details of humans (including our music!) and the location of the star our planet orbits, but we still did it anyway.
Good point, yeah. There are still the barriers of light speed in terms of travel & communication which means delays of perhaps many many multiples of thousands of years between communications & discoveries..... (at which point the civilisation is likely dead)
Which is piffling in terms of the age of the universe. As Doodski said -
So, why hasn't one of these (likely) many sources of alien life not left an observable mark? As I said, it's not inconceivable for AI drones to populate the galaxy in a relatively short space of time and leave traces.
I'm not that certain that it's easy for AI drones to populate the universe from a curious & advanced species. I think there would be replicating problems that would ultimately prevent such devices from populating the universe over thousands of years - which they would need to do in order to encounter intelligent life. So that part is ignoring the longevity of the initial civilisation that sent it, but as you rightly say we sent out Voyager anyway (even though it's not the same thing). No, but I'm less certain that self-replicating drones can replicate indefinitely without fault creeping in (cancer in biological terms, bit error in machine terms, and additionally bad luck physical resource terms if they don't come across their required replication resources).
Or, possibly, a form of evolution?
Not buying it.It's interesting, in that they are "credible" sources. But, it's all still hearsay.I figure anything that's advanced enough to get here can have its way with us. So, no need to worry about it.
These recent reports by "whistleblowers" stating that the government has several crashed alien spacecraft seems like BS to me. We're supposed to believe they can travel billions of miles or warp time and space, but they're not reliable.
