The silence from SETI is deafening. I'm not even amateurishly familiar with astronomy, but I remember setting up SETI@Home when I got my first computer, and remember slowly realizing that the universe seemingly isn't "teeming" with intelligent life. Maybe something is out there, but out of reach, or deliberately silent? Maybe we are alone in this huge universe?
It does feel at least a little depressing that discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence seems unlikely in my lifetime. Maybe even out of the cards for humanity. I have to wonder if building communications devices (or "devices" in general) is a uniquely human thing that simply wouldn't matter to an intelligence that evolved some other way.
It does feel at least a little depressing that discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence seems unlikely in my lifetime. Maybe even out of the cards for humanity. I have to wonder if building communications devices (or "devices" in general) is a uniquely human thing that simply wouldn't matter to an intelligence that evolved some other way.