If Earth Is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years

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This model predicts 1 billion years until we encounter aliens: https://grabbyaliens.com/posts

> If Earth Is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years

If Earth Is Average, the aliens have selfdestructed themselves from greed.

So, never?

We don’t have to go there to discover life. We can infer it from atmospheric composition. As we continue to build larger space telescopes we’ll be able to gather more information about exoplanets.

60 light years is no different from 6000 light years as far as humans are concerned. Communication is out of the question.

Inter-generational pen pals sounds like an interesting concept.

“Hello! In your last correspondence you mentioned some considerable climate policy challenges. Things are, um, heating up here, you see, and we were just wondering… Do you think you could share some pointers? The last message we received from Randall was so kind. We’d love to hear how his offspring is faring!”

The article was about life, not intelligent or technological life, so communication isn't relevant.

Maybe so, but my point remains. Communication/knowledge collecting whether by intelligent life-forms 'over there', or by humans actually going over there and looking, or by Terran robot systems going over there and looking on our behalf are just not feasible.

Humans are hampered by their extremely short life-spans and generations. And the Universe is unbelievably huge.

Closer stuff describes what kinds of telescopes you should build

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