"IF INTELLIGENT BEINGS PERSIST IN THE UNIVERSE...THEN WHY WERE THEY UNABLE TO CONTACT US ?

Question

"IF INTELLIGENT BEINGS PERSIST IN THE UNIVERSE...THEN WHY WERE THEY UNABLE TO CONTACT US DESPITE PASSAGE OF TIME"

Answer 1

We have been emitting radio waves into space for about 100 years. Since SETI was set up in the early 1980s, they have not found any evidence of extraterrestrial civilisations. This means that there is nothing emitting radio waves within 25 light years of us. That's a long way to travel if they had spotted our radio waves. If they travelled at close to light speed, they would require enormous amounts of energy, and the blue shifting of EM radiation at that speed would render harmless radio waves as deadly as high energy gamma rays.

So the reason they have not contacted us is,

1. They don't know we exist, because our radio waves haven't reached them yet.

2. Our radio waves have reached them, but their response has not reached Earth yet.

3. They can't get here

4. They don't exist, or at least near us at any level of technology.





I'm betting on number 4.

Answer 2

Just because a being is incredibly intelligent, does not mean it can master the art of travel at the speed of light.



Perhaps no being ever will. I wonder, if like the film Contact, they are speaking to us now in some form, but unlike the film, we do not understand their language "across the space". Perhaps they are there wondering "Why are these stupid people unable to understand us?" or "Perhaps we shouldn't bother with these dimwits, they all need a slap".



Or maybe, they came, saw us warring, and scarpered.

Answer 3

Because, if they looked at what you have written and your general standard of grammar, then they will have passed over our planet and classed it as void of intelligent life.



Tell me, do you mean exist instead of persist, or something else?



Might the fact that we live on the end of a spiral arm at the edge of or galaxy, a vast distance from any other likely inhabitable solar system that might even have the possibility of containing similar life forms to ourselves have something to do with this?



Even if you assumed that they are as intelligent as the human race then they wont go far, as we have only ever put a few men on the moon which is not far away at all in spacial distances.



Assume further that they were sufficiently developed to cover the inter-spacial gaps at a speed that would negate the effects of ageing and other physical difficulties, then they would probably see us as extremely primitive and warlike irresponsible aborigines and could probably investigate us without our realisation.



Then they would get extremely bored and go elsewhere.



Why bother contacting a civilisation that creates things like Big Brother on TV.. If it were me I would put up some warning signs in deep space advising all other intelligent beings to avoid the Earth as it it is not worth visiting.

Answer 4

N O, yet, this planet isn't by myself. There are different planets like earth this is obtainable, however the distances are too far aside, except there may be the thank you to fold the universe like a chew of paper and shorten the gap like, in line with risk, a computer virus hollow. additionally i believe that there are parallel Universes the place beings can return and forth.

Answer 5

They are intelligent, therefore they have the good sense to not want to contact us. Since it now appears that Improved New Labour has added the planet zog to the list of peoples it has declared war upon (RAF to shoot down ufo's, it was in the sun), then that seems to be the intelligent thing to do. Now we know that wind farms are ufo traps, then perhaps the aliens will keep away!

Answer 6

NON-INTERFERENCE



A suggestion of a more superior/advanced race of people don't come waltzing in to say "Hello Earthlings"...especially when our current world situation is not at peace....too many wars, too much strife and greed and control going on....



Zephren Cockrane has not deployed his warp drive yet, and the nature of any ET contact, is that would also have figured things in similar nature by now, to show we are ready for contact.



We are currently under achievers in light of the UFOs. We are underneath their superior knowings. We don't have sufficient 'knowings' of the universe to approach them or for them to approach us, on a personal one to one basis. Too much of a gap.



If there are 4 types of races in the universe....we be at the '0' to '1' transition....and anyone coming in UFO/ships would be Type 3 easily. That's a huge gap in intelligence.



They would look down on us, probably in grief, that we have not assumed the proper course that they had once long ago....

Answer 7

If an intelligent being exist and visits us they might not speak to us but to the cows on the field instead, as the want to communicate with the dominant species...



Did you know that there are more cows than humans on earth?

Answer 8

If there is intelligent life out there, there's no way to tell if they are anything like us and how they communicate. Secondly, based on physics, it seems physically impossible (for now) to travel to other solar systems because you'd have to travel at the speed of light, and the close you approach the speed of light, the more your mass increases, which requires more power which would in turn require an infinite amount of power....correct me if I'm wrong but me and my Physics teacher had a conversation about this. Also, we have been sending radio signals into space to contact them, but it takes an immense amount of time just for the waves to leave our solar system...

Answer 9

Maybe think we are too childlike as a species. I mean if you were looking down on the Earth with all the war, poverty and general discord would you like to visit?

Answer 10

As I said before, and as I will say now... Consider the situation.

You are shown a picture of one grain of sand, and asked to find it in the Sahara desert. The time you have is unbounded.

The scenario of the universe is much much much more complicated. It would be utter idiocricy to compare earth and universe to a grain of sand and the Sahara desert respectively.



HTH

Answer 11

They might have awful communications skills, or use telepathy to talk to each other, and having been sending us telepathic messages for the last couple of millenia which we have been unable to pick up.



Ever thought of that?

Answer 12

They could be too far away and not intelligent enough to make contact.

Answer 13

Well, why are we unable to contact them? There's a theory that "aliens" may be outside of our galaxy; perhaps there are thousands of galaxies out there and there is only one form of "intelligent life" on each planet.



We really can't dispute this until we have thoroughly studied astrophysics.

Answer 14

Maybe they have tried, but weren't successful. Could you imagine yourself aboard a space ship traveling to a planet where it is obviously inhabited and you knew nothing about? Wouldn't you be a bit careful when making contact? I could go on forever...

Answer 15

if there was life on mars that was killing ,burning , bombing,stabbing,shooting,invading, torturing ,hating and f@@king up the planet would you land and say hi,if they do that to themselves what will the do to us.



also the universe is very big and a signal could take millions of years to reach us even at the speed of light

Answer 16

Space is so vast that they probably don't know we are here. We can't contact anyone either, we don't have the ability to go very far into space.

Answer 17

Because they might be too far away from us, i.e. millions of light years away. And by the time we do get a signal from them, they might have died out by then.

Answer 18

They can but they are in bed with the leaders of this earth.



In the film below ex inteligent officers, Nassa and government officials called a press conference inviting all the mainstream media to tell us Aliens were amongst us.....yet not one word of it was mentioned in the TV radio and newspapers. Doesnt this prove that you are being lied to and kept from the truth by the mainstream media?



The mainstream media made sure this would not get out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk

(Disclosure project)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0azCo4DxBs

(Another disclosure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_zMaSPPdpQ

(UFO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJcvCTdCSY

(UFO cover up)

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/video.asp

(UFO archive)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OtcHTLW6yU

(Wakey wakey)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TaUx5iYp2Bk

(Brainwashing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsVE4N6fpE

(TV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ7xx6qs-qM

(Mass media control)

Answer 19

Maybe because they realize it might cause them or us harm or maybe they don't have the technology. And remember it would take them a LOOOONG time to get here.

Answer 20

Maybe because they consider we are insignificant?

We study ants but I dont think we try to communicate with them.

Answer 21

Did you ever think maybe they have but we aren't intelligent enough to be aware of it ?

Answer 22

Maybe radio is a cruddy technology, and very few civilizations invent it.

Answer 23

Maybe they saw us screwing our own World up, with wars, pollution etc and thought better of it.

Answer 24

Intelligent doesn't mean omnipotent.

Answer 25

Why would they bother?? Do we talk to microbes or plankton?

Answer 26

I think there are must likely imaginary.

Answer 27

I don`t believe we are ready yet for that knowledge and they are waiting for us to advance to a level where we can handle it...

Answer 28

we are to dum for them.. they dont want to wast there time with us..

Answer 29

maybe they don't want us to know they exist...

Answer 30

Maybe they don't like us.

Answer 31

they have mister who do you think. created YAHOO~]

Answer 32

how do you know they havent??