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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (237233)6/16/2005 8:00:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572568
 
So why haven't they come calling?

Assuming no FTL travel it could just be that they are far away and don't even know of our existance. If lasting technological civilizations are fairly rare (say a handful per galaxy) and there is not FTL, it could easily be that there is none of them (even there colonies) anywhere near us. Even if such civilizations are so rare there could be a trillion of them in the universe, but the universe is a stageringly big place.

Then of course there are a lot of other posibilities like the ones that combjelly mentioned.

Tim
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