Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. … [I]t is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.`Franz Kafka The Silence of the Sirens(1924)
If you ask scientists why we don’t try to contact other civilizations the answer is that we’re afraid.
The other part of the Drake equation omits the fact that if by happenstance a technologically oriented society (like outs) evolves, it has a lifespan of about 6,000 years before it self destructs. I mean, does anyone think we can last another 500 years?
Bilan about 9 years ago
Talking donuts and mind probes on Brewster don’t count as intelligent life?
Yalashanda about 9 years ago
This begs the old joke: “Of course there is intelligent life, that is why it has not contacted us.”
Coyoty Premium Member about 9 years ago
Mel doesn’t remember all the aliens he’s encountered on the ship because Agent X keeps neuralizing him.
Alabama Al about 9 years ago
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. … [I]t is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.`Franz Kafka The Silence of the Sirens(1924)
kaffekup about 9 years ago
‘So why haven’t they tried to contact us?’Maybe a little issue called the speed of light?
Fan o’ Lio. about 9 years ago
Their reply is on the way. It is due to arrive about 24,016 A.D.
Dragoncat about 9 years ago
Any alien that knows better than to come here, is intelligent life.
Kali39 about 9 years ago
If there is intelligent life out there watching us, why don’t we hear them laughing at the stupidity? We do have Fox News going on all day…
PappyFiddle about 9 years ago
They sent us some Queen. It imploded on contact with real intelligence.
Malcolm Hall about 9 years ago
If you ask scientists why we don’t try to contact other civilizations the answer is that we’re afraid.
The other part of the Drake equation omits the fact that if by happenstance a technologically oriented society (like outs) evolves, it has a lifespan of about 6,000 years before it self destructs. I mean, does anyone think we can last another 500 years?