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On 6/29/2024 2:41 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
> The claim being made was that because we were not seeing any
> intelligent aliens, they must not exist, or are very rare.  Which does
> not follow.

... or, we don't know how to recognize them (see _... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?_)

> Even if they do have warp drives, they may still send a robot.
> 
> But given the technological gulf between Earthlings and any
> civilization possessing any warp drive, we won't detect them unless
> they want us to.

The issue presented in _Remembrances ..._

Note many "scholars" have warned that we probably shouldn't WANT
to be "discovered"