Reply #18: Nonsense. [View All]

[TheWraith]

To say that someone would have found us by now is to underestimate the scope of the universe. Earth is one planet out of roughtly 300 billion stars in just this one galaxy. That's enough room that you could have ten thousand spacefaring races, each of which controlled ten thousand star systems, and you still would only have used up one third of one percent of the space in this galaxy alone. We're sitting on the spiral arm, in the outer reaches of our galaxy, where stars are sparse and far apart. To say that there must be no interstellar travel because we haven't seen it is like standing in the Canadian Rockies, and because you can't see any people, deciding that there's no travel-capable civilization on this planet, otherwise someone would be living here.