universe =/= galaxy people (that aren't TC). Of course there's life out there, but we're still alone here.\Ammonitida posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Stars are very far apart, and it takes a rather long time for light to travel between them.
For any two intelligent species to even be aware the other exists, there needs to be some pretty fantastically unlikely coincidences, the biggest being that at least one be able to understand the other's signals. This requires at that civilization to be at a sufficiently advanced level the exact moment the relevant photons arrive, and recognize what its seeing, while the other civilization has to have been at a sufficiently advanced level to send those photons long enough ago to have sent those signals. Also those photons have to have not degraded into noise along the way.
If there's life around the closest other star, and it starts transmitting "hello universe!" right now, we won't see it for four years, and that assumes we know what to even look for.
Say hello to this weird star, which some speculate is being manipulated by alien intelligence.
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the star's large irregular changes in brightness as measured by its light curve, but none to date fully explain all aspects of the curve.
Look, I'm not saying it's Aliens, but....I think it's Aliens.