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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
And yet we still haven't found so much as even a simple radio message. I believe that the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of other extraterrestrial civilizations having developed in our galaxy, but the fact that we still have not one shred of evidence of their existence is disturbing. It leads to the disquieting speculation that perhaps advanced civilizations don't have a very long shelf life. Maybe the norm is for intelligent lifeforms to destroy themselves soon after achieving the capability to do so. It certainly isn't unreasonable to suppose that we're headed in that direction.
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I read an interesting theory once, based in part on quantum physics, which postulated that there can only ever be one intelligent species in the universe at one time. The theorist took the idea that quantum probability waves have infinite possibilities until they are observed and the act of observation collapses the waves into a single event and applied it to the universe. He came up with the idea that intelligent life, once able to examine and observe the universe, thereby collapsed the infinite quantum probability waves into the single event of their own existence. As such, it wouldn't be until that intelligent species died out that another could possibly exist.
I'm sure I'm not explaining it very well but it sounded pretty cool to me at the time anyway.
Cheers,
PKFFW