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What is the real reason we haven't found ET ?

By T.K. Randall
September 28, 2018 · Comment icon 100 comments

There may be a very good reason why we have yet to find ET. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Hajor
A new study has indicated that we may have barely even scratched the surface in our hunt for intelligent aliens.
The question of whether we are alone in the universe remains one of the biggest philosophical conundrums of our time. While it seems almost inconceivable that our civilization is alone in the cosmos, the fact still remains that we have yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

The Fermi paradox, which highlights the contradiction between the likely existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the fact that we have still never encountered any, seems to suggest that either there are no aliens out there, or they are so rare that it is unlikely we would ever come across them.

But could things really be that simple or are we just expecting too much, too soon ?

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter, who was the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in the movie Contact, has previously compared the hunt for evidence of extraterrestrial life in the universe to someone trying to find fish in the Earth's oceans by examining a single glass of water.
During a presentation at a NASA workshop on Wednesday, Tarter updated her analogy by referencing a recent study which has tried to better represent the scope of our modern day hunt for alien life.

Despite our advances over the last few years however, it seems that we still haven't looked very far.

"Our current search completeness is extremely low, akin to having searched something like a large hot tub or small swimming pool's worth of water out of all of Earth's oceans," the study authors wrote.

In other words - we still have a very long way to go.

Source: CNET.com | Comments (100)




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Comment icon #91 Posted by Alien Origins 6 years ago
Maybe because they have more pressing issues....In other words minding their own business. 
Comment icon #92 Posted by XenoFish 6 years ago
Humanity will never win against us.
Comment icon #93 Posted by Erno86 6 years ago
The possibility of the existence of highly intelligent dinosauroid humanoids from another star system.
Comment icon #94 Posted by OverSword 6 years ago
Mmmmmmkay..............
Comment icon #95 Posted by Hawken 6 years ago
Comment icon #96 Posted by Gomar 6 years ago
Both true and not true.  Eventhough the "discovery" of Australia and Aborigines by Capt.Cook after living alone for 50,000 years led to their decimation, what Australia is like right now more than makes up for it.  Same for "American Indians", Carib, Hawaiians, Eskimo, Africans, and all so-called "lost tribes". Yes, natives were killed, cultures destroyed;However, today even Indians have cell phones, TVs, computers, drive cars, and dental care with novocaine.   So, will humans be eaten or enslaved by alien invaders, not likely. No one will yell "Johnny, it's a cookbook!"
Comment icon #97 Posted by highdesert50 5 years ago
You missed my point. Or, rather, I was not clear in making my point in the brevity of the statement. If I understand your retort, you are saying you are distinctly different in that you are capable of philosophical conversation. I don't contest that. My point is that we use a human, anthropocentric, or a you state 'terran' perspective for measurement. Measurement that is unique to us as humans, may not necessarily be a viable measurement tool in the context of other species that have evolved in a manner distinctly different than that of a human. We presume that our measurement method, hence ou... [More]
Comment icon #98 Posted by OverSword 5 years ago
Yes I’m in agreement with you for the purpose of intellectual exercise but the reality is that what you are talking about is pure fantasy for now.  The end result of evolution does not seem to have the goal of high intelligence, meaning high like humans not like dolphins or chimpanzees. That makes it reasonable to assume imo that we may very well be effectively alone in the universe 
Comment icon #99 Posted by johncbdg 5 years ago
The real reason is,we can only look for beings like our self and like us they can not go to far in there own space crafts  like us they can go into a low earth orbit 200 miles up maybe even land on there moon and one day take off to a planet like our Mars but that is about all we can do and beings like us can do, are beings like us able to go live in  deep space and land on a planet and then head home nope,beings like us are planet confined,is it true that humanity is confined to earth with no chance of ever inhabiting a distant planet? now i would stop sending out messages about who w... [More]
Comment icon #100 Posted by StarMountainKid 5 years ago
Yes, I think a very advanced civilization would be a danger to us. Even a benign intervention with our civilization would create major problems within our society.


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