The seeming infinity of stars we see in deep exposures of the Milky Way belies the fact that our galaxy has been dead silent when it comes to detecting a radio or optical signal saying “hello” from any neighboring extraterrestrial civilization.
Maybe extraterrestrials are out there but they might not have gone to the effort and expense of building a powerful radio beam and aiming it at us. This may not be in their annual science budget. Or they simply may not want to make their presence know to the universe, as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking recently warned us not to do.
Therefore the idea of eavesdropping on the normal telecommunications of a civilization has always been compelling because it doesn’t require that aliens do anything special for our sake.
The hubris of this guy is just ridiculous. How in the hell can anyone make any kind of conclusion to this question? To read the rest of this drivel, click here.