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www.space.com...
Earthlings may be extreme latecomers to a universe full of life, with alien microbes possibly teeming on exoplanets beginning
just 15 million years after the Big Bang, new research suggests.
...
But even exoplanets that orbit far beyond the habitable zone may have been able to support life in the distant past, warmed by the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago, says Harvard astrophysicist Abraham Loeb.
Hopefully, one day we'll get a chance to meet some of them. See how they live, what they drive, what kinds of animals evolved on their planets, what kinds of ships and planes they fly, what kinds of foods they eat.
Phage
Then what?
Bad idea methinks.
Or, we could help them along their way.
dragonridr
reply to post by _BoneZ_
Maybe there all gone and were like that guy that shows up so late for the party everyone else has left.
Phage
reply to post by _BoneZ_
Bad idea methinks.
Or, we could help them along their way.
Prime directive, good.
However, as we have been shown, it get complicated. I mean, what happens if the away team gets stranded and all the red shirts are toast?
jhn7537
Thinking about this type of stuff interests the hell out of me.
Phage
reply to post by _BoneZ_
Hopefully, one day we'll get a chance to meet some of them. See how they live, what they drive, what kinds of animals evolved on their planets, what kinds of ships and planes they fly, what kinds of foods they eat.
It works both ways. If there is a way to escape our island and we find it, we may find species just emerging into intelligence.
Then what?
_BoneZ_
Phage
Then what?
Then we can observe them. Or, we could help them along their way. Even better, we could develop our own Prime Directive and leave them alone until they matured to a certain technological point.