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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 758143" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>If you're going to consider the possibility that there is other intelligent life in the universe, you also have to consider the time scales involved when thinking about how advanced they could be relative to us. There has been life on earth for many millions of years, but modern humans only for the last 40,000 or so. Farming didn't develop until around 10,000 years ago. So in approx 10,000 years we've gone from being hunter/gatherers to landing on the moon. Assuming we don't blow ourselves up, what we could we achieve in 2-3 million years? The possibilities are almost inconceivable. If there's a planet out there where intelligent life <em>did</em> evolve million of years ago there is really no telling what they might be capable of as far as space travel, etc. I like the time travel idea though, that's pretty good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 758143, member: 4805"] If you're going to consider the possibility that there is other intelligent life in the universe, you also have to consider the time scales involved when thinking about how advanced they could be relative to us. There has been life on earth for many millions of years, but modern humans only for the last 40,000 or so. Farming didn't develop until around 10,000 years ago. So in approx 10,000 years we've gone from being hunter/gatherers to landing on the moon. Assuming we don't blow ourselves up, what we could we achieve in 2-3 million years? The possibilities are almost inconceivable. If there's a planet out there where intelligent life [I]did[/I] evolve million of years ago there is really no telling what they might be capable of as far as space travel, etc. I like the time travel idea though, that's pretty good. [/QUOTE]
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