But let's say there is intelligent life out there, who is to say humans will still be alive if they evolve enough to travel through space? Humans are definitely a highly evolved species, but we are still a very short-sighted species. Our brains don't really allow us to plan long-term and by long-term, I mean beyond a couple of generations. Look at it this way, we know that pollution is killing our planet and yet we still haven't really done enough to make sure our grandchildren's grandchildren will inherit a planet that will be habitable. So, if intelligent life has evolved enough to plan long-term and have invented interstellar travel, the odds that they show up here and humans still exist are very very slim.
And let's say that humans are the ones who invent interstellar travel, what are the odds that we find another habitable planet with an intelligent species far enough along in their evolution that we can communicate with them? Humans have been around for 250,000 years which is about 0.00001% of the universe's 13.8 billion year existence. That's an insanely small fraction of time. What's to say that we show up to said habitable planet and discover that there was an intelligent species, but they had already gone extinct billions of years ago because they couldn't save their own planet from themselves (you know, like we currently are having problems with)?
So, there you go. Even if intelligent life does exist (which is unlikely), the odds that we meet them at the same time of their own peak of intelligence is so slim that you are more likely to win the lottery every time you buy a ticket for the rest of your life. What I'm trying to say is that buying lottery tickets is dumb and I really don't why anybody does it. You are way more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you will ever be likely to win it.
"No, not that kind of alien, silly pants." |
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