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Free falnesia wrote:That is true. My thinking on that we haven't found any complex life yet is due to 2 things:
1. Our scanning/observing technology. Our tech is not yet able to observed the universe in near-present time. What we see is the past after all, and to make it more depressing, the observable area is comparatively tiny to the galaxy as a whole. If there are interstellar species out there, they may as well be outside our tiny observable area, since they probably have tech to reach us by now, if not contact us when we finally begun our effort towards space during the cold war.

2. We may be the earliest, if not the very first advanced species in our galaxy. If one of the Fermi Paradox theory which states that we are the earliest or first advance species is true, what we currently observed on those probable habitable planets which may contain life, we are seeing their past, in which it is on the microbes stages or even much earlier. After all, the closest system to us is already few million light years away, in which we are seeing it in million years in its past.

Earliest civilization, in the middle, or the last civilization? Also, have you heard of the great filter? Do you think we passed the Great Filter or are we about to encounter it?

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