22 month ago
jkottke : "Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look" - "Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look."
plasticbag : Rasmus Bjork has been exploring why aliens haven't found us - his conclusion is that it's because it would take them billions of years to do so - Rather spuriously, he seems to have decided that said aliens would send eight probes which would each subsequently break into an additional eight probes. My guess is that if they did it with more probes it might take less time...
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