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True, but we still have to try and understand the universe within the scientific framework we’ve built otherwise we’re just indulging in science fiction. We know things like the distances involved, the time it would take to travel those distances even at a high percentage of the speed of light, the amount of energy needed to move a specific mass, and so on.

Maybe there are ways around this for sufficiently advanced beings but maybe there is intelligent life within 100 light years of us that is listening to the first radio broadcasts with no way of getting here.

Earth has been giving off obvious chemical evidence of life signs for eons.

True, like I said microbial life is likely found all over the galaxy but we’ve only been transmitting radio waves for a little over a century.

Even if they haven’t arrived to check it out, which I doubt, they will be watching carefully in various ways.

How would they travel, realistically? Also what are these various ways that they will be watching?

There’s probably life all over the place like on earth but it’s very primitive.

It took 3.5 billion years to get to the point where we evolved enough to be able to ask this question. 3.5 billion years of near misses, mass extinction events, and our star remaining stable enough to not wipe us out. I suspect microbial life is very common, we might even find some in our solar system but sentient life much less so and sentient life existing at the same time that we do is even rarer let alone sentient life creating radio waves over a long enough period to coincide with our very recent attempts to receive it.

This is what happens when you sell off publicly-owned electricity generation and distribution. The ghost of Thatcher kicks the UK in the face once again.

How does that work though? Is there some genetic situation where consuming fewer calories than you burn doesn’t lead to weight loss?

What problem is this solving?

Apparently there are some rubes with too much money.