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Originally Posted by TGS
You may be right beppe, the earth may have an intention, it might even be a "she", but what experience could you imagine having that would throw light on, or settle the question one way or the other?
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I went down in the kitchen, made coffe for W and me, smoke a cigarette, discussed of football, and then thought that your comment was worth of a more serious answer.
If we discussed only of problems of which we know already the solution, then ... I'll let you feel the gap with images of your choice.
One difficulty in communicating with entities like that is the time scale.
Earth is around since about 5 billion years. Billion more billion less. Let us assume that we got here right in the middle of her life span. Her is honorific and cultural. So her time scale is chacterized by a number in the order of 10 billions years.
Our life span is of the order of 100 years.
A message that for us takes 1 hour to be transmitted, would last how long for Earth?
It takes 1 in one millionth of our life span as there are 10 thousand hours in one year.
That proportion carried over to Earth would mean 1 millionth of 10 billions, that is 10 thousand years. Not very practical, for us, just one hour of her time for Earth.
If we become that child, she might invite us to play. With Earth we can only be at the receiving end.
Things happen all the time and every where that we do not have the faintest idea of, with the huge space and time scales of universe. That is why I feel that extra terrestrial manifestations, along the schemes of our actual understanding of matter, and our human time scales, are just pure fantasy.