shouldnt we, if we have the technology, to not search for extrasolar planets, but search for planets in other galaxies? im really confused bout this sry though

huh?

Im slightly confused on your question. I believe we don't have the technology to send humans, but we can sent probes and satellites.

Does this help?

Um, other galaxies are, like, REALLY far away.

Just, what I was going to say.

Well, we are on the verge of having the technology to send interstellar probes to nearby solar systems, maybe in as soon as 30 to 60 years. Right now we're busy checking out our own solar system, some of the Jovian moons (Europa) could prove very interesting.

As for other galaxies..."Really far away", is almost an understatement! Such distance is mind boggling. We would need some kind of major breakthrough in physics to even be able to entertain speculation there.

List of nearest galaxies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies

Nearest galaxy is 25,000 light years away so if you wanted to go there the shortest time you could gather info would be 50,000 years - 25000 to get there at the speed of light and another 25000 to send data back to earth. This is why it would be amost an impossibility for other life to have visited earth unless they they have a vast understanding of physics. When you look at the stars half of the things aint even there anymore!

why do we want to advertise the fact we are here. like one of the probes did in the early '70s, with maps of how to get here and what we look like etc.

You wouldn't put a sign on your door with "please come in everyone welcome" written on it. You may get mugged.

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Good live too

The voyager message was more a symbolic thing than anything else.
With radio technology slightly more advanced than our own, Homo sapiens is detectable out to a distance of roughly 50 light-years. Within that distance are about 5,000 stars, all of which have had the enviable pleasure of receiving terrestrial television.

Further,any extraterrestrials out there wanting to get in touch will be at least a century or two ahead of us. This means they will have already built the sort of space telescopes that can find and analyze planets around other stars. If life is commonplace (still a big “if”), then one can imagine that the appendixes of alien astronomy textbooks will contain long, long lists of worlds known to have biology. After all, for two billion years, the oxygen in the atmosphere has been whispering to the Galaxy that there’s life on Earth, because bacteria produced that oxygen. Without doubt, our planet will be on those textbook lists of “bio-worlds.”

The fact that human tech is far to 'primitive' to send even probes to other galaxies...

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The fact that human tech is far to 'primitive' to send even probes to other galaxies...
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ive been fascinated searching in other galaxies, bc if we scan the whole milky way and find nothing, theirs 100's of billions of more galaxies to look for. but its not the number, but just where to look