Today's muse, I take it to be self-evident that other intelligent life has existed, or will exist, on other planets. I also take it as equally self-evident that the chances of an intersection of two or more "intelligents" is so small, as to make the search not worth doing, except strictly as an exercise, i.e., we must exercise our "searching skills" to stay healthy as a species.
What I find more interesting is whether or not there exists what might be called, universal principles of evolution, that makes the all but theoretical impossibility of an intersection intentional, at least evolutionarily. Or to state this another way, why is the scale of intelligent life on earth so small in size and time, as compared to the scale of the universe around us? It is this scale contrast that makes the intersection so unlikely. Where did the this scale, that defines our intelligent life, come from?
There is a possibility that would increase the odds of a meet, that is, of course, that the "other" intelligent life does live on a universal scale. However, if this is the case, and we have not found them already, then it is their intention not to be found, because they surely must be aware of us, the noisy, often rude and sometime violent adolescences down the road. :-)
Tangentially, speaking of scale, why is the fastest thing we know, light, so slow? If makes no sense, given the scale of the universe. Unless of course, it is not the fastest thing....
What I find more interesting is whether or not there exists what might be called, universal principles of evolution, that makes the all but theoretical impossibility of an intersection intentional, at least evolutionarily. Or to state this another way, why is the scale of intelligent life on earth so small in size and time, as compared to the scale of the universe around us? It is this scale contrast that makes the intersection so unlikely. Where did the this scale, that defines our intelligent life, come from?
There is a possibility that would increase the odds of a meet, that is, of course, that the "other" intelligent life does live on a universal scale. However, if this is the case, and we have not found them already, then it is their intention not to be found, because they surely must be aware of us, the noisy, often rude and sometime violent adolescences down the road. :-)
Tangentially, speaking of scale, why is the fastest thing we know, light, so slow? If makes no sense, given the scale of the universe. Unless of course, it is not the fastest thing....
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