Anonymous Coward writes:
https://www.businessinsider.com/alien-civilizations-may-have-already-colonized-galaxy-study-2019-8
The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations — we just don't know about it because they haven't paid us a visit in 10 million years.
A study published last month in The Astronomical Journal[$] posits that intelligent extraterrestrial life could be taking its time to explore the galaxy, harnessing star systems' movement to make star-hopping easier.
The work is a new response to a question known as the Fermi paradox, which asks why we haven't detected signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 11 2019, @12:32AM (1 child)
I think we decided (as a species, pretty much) that because there is no obvious financial gain to be made from space it became not worth bothering with.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday September 11 2019, @01:20PM
Yeah, that'll be it. And the pursuits that are built around financial gain very often aren't the ones that I'd consider moments of brilliance for humanity. I suppose you have charities and non-profit organizations doing great things and also billionaire pet projects like SpaceX but arguably nothing like that has been on quite the same scale as the space race.
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