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LiberalArkie

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8. Sorry, out was the only thing that came to mind that fit "they might not use the same

Sun Feb 11, 2018, 03:03 PM

Feb 2018

spectrum as we do"

Maybe they discovered digital communications before we did and we can not decode it.

Any number of reasons why.

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Bill Nye's Answer to the Fermi Paradox [View all] LongTomH Feb 2018 OP

All our communications methods consist of using the electromagnetic spectrum. LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #1

Telepathy?! PJMcK Feb 2018 #2

Sorry, out was the only thing that came to mind that fit "they might not use the same LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #8

We're good! PJMcK Feb 2018 #10

Thank you.. LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #40

They also listen somewhere in the electromagnic spectrum PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #3

Good points...also, what if they don't simply care about us? Possible. NT SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #5

Your digital TV can not pick up the old analog signals. Your digital TV would LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #9

I don't think it's inevitable that a technological civilization will destroy itself before ......... LongTomH Feb 2018 #12

But individual species simply don't last for millions of years. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #16

If we, as a species, continue to evolve, then it will be our evolutionary successors. LongTomH Feb 2018 #17

Maybe. And maybe not. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #20

But individual species simply don't last for millions of years. Moid62 Feb 2018 #24

And in those 200 million years what, exactly, have alligators accomplished? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #25

They are indeed an anomaly Moid62 Feb 2018 #30

I think we're headed for a population crash much, much sooner. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #32

Actually, almost everything we broadcast Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #26

Yes, but you have to tune in very specifically PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #29

Not as simple as just tuning to the specific frequency, but to be able to decode the information. SeattleVet Feb 2018 #31

And there are probably more ways to communicate that we ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #4

Give it time and I'm sure we will find something... Thyla Feb 2018 #6

Maybe we are the first. Kablooie Feb 2018 #7

I often find myself saying to myself, that Fermi, he was no Bill Nye. NNadir Feb 2018 #11

I think I get your point. Shemp Howard Feb 2018 #14

Maybe because they are ... GeorgeGist Feb 2018 #13

The first problem is that this is not so much a paradox as a question... TreasonousBastard Feb 2018 #15

Have you ever heard of the song Vlad the Astrophysicist? Staph Feb 2018 #18

Thank you for posting that. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #21

I postulate that it could "possibly" be sound frequencies below Lint Head Feb 2018 #19

They shut us down when they saw Trump SpankMe Feb 2018 #22

Tight beam communications, like lasers or masers, are more efficient. Broadcast is wasteful. tclambert Feb 2018 #23

That doesn't seem to me to be a paradox at all considering the vastness and distances of space. brush Feb 2018 #27

Why would intelligent life want to contact us? FuzzyRabbit Feb 2018 #28

Most likely either they have or they are benld74 Feb 2018 #33

Maybe they're out there but we scare the bejeebers out of them? marble falls Feb 2018 #34

They listened to one of tr-dump's rally speeches.. magicarpet Feb 2018 #35

Drumpf's rally speeches will not have gotten to the nearest star yet. longship Feb 2018 #37

The sheer size of the Universe makes it very difficult to receive signals from other civilizations. world wide wally Feb 2018 #36

ONE MAJOR PROBLEM ?? bleedinglib Feb 2018 #38

DU Rec. raging moderate Feb 2018 #39