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RE: Food For Thought: Will We Ever Make Contact With Extraterrestrials?
Maybe! Like others have pointed out, due to the Fermi Paradox, such mind blowing technology may not exist. Other civilizations have had at least 10 billion years to develop it. If there was such a technology, we would have seen it by now.
(And no, the KIC is almost certainly not an alien mega-structure! Way too erratic to be so - probably some previously unseen cosmic phenomenon)
let's hope NASA is able to provide some answers to that.
And I don't think we should take the Fermi Paradox as lines in stone. A lot of smart people have been proven wrong throughout the history. so i'm holding on to the belief that everything is possible technology wise. :)
Fermi Paradox is not about being wrong though. It's just an observation, and one that cannot be refuted.
It doesn't say that there will be no aliens making contact, just that it is very, very unlikely based on the evidence. Can't argue with that.
If aliens do show up tomorrow, it doesn't invalidate Fermi Paradox, it only means that it's a miraculous event.