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JBTaurus83

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7. I don't think

Reply to hunter (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 02:30 PM

Oct 15

Technological societies are likely to be very common. When adding billions of years to the mix and blip of time we have been around and space faring, I really am not shocked we haven’t found anyone.

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'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? [View all] hunter Oct 15 OP

Or they've decided to move in on us after Vogon_Glory Oct 15 #1

Or they took a look and decided we were to FUBAR to bother with. 3catwoman3 Oct 15 #2

If an alien civilization had faster-than-light technology EYESORE 9001 Oct 15 #3

Beyond this place being fubar'ed enough to stay far away from, slightlv Oct 15 #4

Maybe after a long look they put a warning beacon here to warn other civilizations not to bother nt yaesu Oct 15 #5

What do you expect? We're no longer "Mostly Harmless" ms liberty Oct 15 #6

I don't think JBTaurus83 Oct 15 #7

"For centuries... thinkers have pondered... hundreds of billions of planets" hvn_nbr_2 Oct 15 #8

That's an interesting theory JoseBalow Oct 15 #9