<story><title>Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buran77</author><text>It may be even worse, that different continent is on a different planet.&lt;p&gt;Space(time) is absolutely, mind-boggling massive. Everyone knows it&amp;#x27;s big but it hard to comprehend how big and why there could be many alien civilizations out there capable of broadcasting or detecting but never intersect in any way because the detection windows of any 2 civilizations don&amp;#x27;t line up.&lt;p&gt;The Milky Way alone is ~150000-200000 light years across. Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years, and capable of sending and receiving signals for a mere century. Imagine that even at the speed of light the entire history of civilized life on Earth might come and go many times before something reaches us, or before the probe comes back.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no Earth-bound or common sense analogy that can convey this kind of vastness and emptiness.</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we&amp;#x27;re a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.&lt;p&gt;Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I remember reading somewhere that due to the differing pace of evolution and technology advancements, any intelligent living aliens we meet are almost certainly going to be gods or cavemen. I can&amp;#x27;t find the reference.</text></comment>
<story><title>Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buran77</author><text>It may be even worse, that different continent is on a different planet.&lt;p&gt;Space(time) is absolutely, mind-boggling massive. Everyone knows it&amp;#x27;s big but it hard to comprehend how big and why there could be many alien civilizations out there capable of broadcasting or detecting but never intersect in any way because the detection windows of any 2 civilizations don&amp;#x27;t line up.&lt;p&gt;The Milky Way alone is ~150000-200000 light years across. Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years, and capable of sending and receiving signals for a mere century. Imagine that even at the speed of light the entire history of civilized life on Earth might come and go many times before something reaches us, or before the probe comes back.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no Earth-bound or common sense analogy that can convey this kind of vastness and emptiness.</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we&amp;#x27;re a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.&lt;p&gt;Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>The fermi paradox does convey this.</text></comment>