There very well may be but our very first radio communications still have only reached 100 light years and we haven't heard any others.
Indeed we are the aliens.Maybe they haven't replied because they're already here, maybe we're the aliens?
Or
They don't want us knowing of their existence?
Maybe they've seen Geordie Shore and thought "wtf are they on about"
Was it genuine?EFL , so you have never heard of the 1977 WOW signal we received ,
We didn't invent radio waves; they seem to be rather universal.also thats presuming we went along the same evolutionary path who says the would have invented radio waves they might have some completely different form of cummunication
Here is one to get your head round imagine standing on a beach cupping your hands together and grabbing biggest handfull of sand you can and let it slip through your fingers.
How many grains of sand is there ,
uncountable
now for every single grain of sand there is on this planet , not just one beach
There is a sun . not a planet but a sun
So please dont ttell me there is not intelligent life out there
There are other ways, such as encrypted signals, which we would not detect. In fact if they are like us, they would have only sent regular radio signals for a few decades before changing. This means that the chances of finding a signal are even more remote.Was it genuine?EFL , so you have never heard of the 1977 WOW signal we received ,
We didn't invent radio waves; they seem to be rather universal.also thats presuming we went along the same evolutionary path who says the would have invented radio waves they might have some completely different form of cummunication
What else is there? A different spectrum?
No, that doesn't follow at all.You could just as easily say that because so many people believe ( and many millions more have believed) in a deity it proves that God exists .
Yes. It was saying 'B-u-y--e-x--d-I-s-p-l-a-y--k-I-t-c-h-e-n-s--f-r-o-m--k-e-p-l-e-r'Was it genuine?
No, that doesn't follow at all.You could just as easily say that because so many people believe ( and many millions more have believed) in a deity it proves that God exists .
We are looking at two things:
the possibility that "intelligent life exists".
We consider that the answer to this question is yes, and we consider ourselves an example
(opinions may differ)
the probability that "intelligent life exists"
We deduce that the probability is not less than 1 in (an unknown but very large number)
We have not yet decided if the probability is one in a billion, one in trillion, or one in a brazillian.
We do not yet know, but are starting to estimate, how many planets might exist where the conditions might be suitable for life to occur and develop.
As we already accept that intelligent life exists on at least one planet, there is no particular reason to assume that it will not exist on any other planets.
Your alternative proposition "that a god exists" has not yet been proven to exist in even one occurrence, therefore the "possibility" and "probability" numbers are not the same.