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To: combjelly who wrote (564076)	5/1/2010 1:10:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576097

"There has to be some reason for no contact." The galaxy is a big place. There are hundreds of billions of stars and it has been around for billions of years. We don't really know how long civilizations can last, but it is pretty likely that one can only reasonably communicate with another that is relatively close to it as far as development. Given how our technology has been increasing at an exponential rate, and assuming that is normal, the window could be pretty narrow. So even if there are millions of civilizations out there, there would only be a few that would be interested in any sort of communication. You know there seems to be a certain order to this planet we live on....for an example, the food chain. There are plants and certain animals feed on the plants and then there are animals that feed on the plant eaters....and so forth. Then there is oil which was created as part of the planet's evolution and can be used by humans to benefit their civilization. As humans expanded their civilization there were rivers to ride down, oceans to cross to get to other lands. Maybe I imagining it but there seem to be some order to things that allowed Man to grow his civilization.......or maybe we are good at making order out of disorder. In any case, we were able to take advantage of planetary conditions so that we could advance. However, the nature of galaxies and the universe doesn't seem to fit that thesis. Its seems we have been intentionally isolated like a leper colony.....in order to prevent contact with other civilizations. That there are strong limits to our advancement. And what about the older parts of our galaxy.........civilizations have to be much older than ours and considerably more advanced. Why haven't we heard from any of them? Is it because once you conquer a solar system.....there is no way to get from there to any place else of significance. Its hard for my mind to get around the whole thing.......but it just seems like whatever order there is gets disconnected once you leave the planet and things stop making sense.