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Subject: Re: Aliens. The more likely scenario
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On 9/5/24 12:22, JTEM wrote:
> 
> If civilizations are out there, if they exist in appreciable
> numbers even if not density...
> 
> And if any variant of the Panspermia is true, they have to
> be. That's just the way it is. Assume some flavor of
> Panspermia is true and that makes life abundant, ubiquitous.
> And if life is ubiquitous than civilization must be popping
> up in appreciable numbers, even if not an appreciable
> density...
> 
> So if civilizations are out there, they could start detecting
> life on earth, oh, somewhere north of 2 billion years ago.
> 
> Many would argue more than a billion years before that, but
> I like that number. Nice and round, that, and it coincides
> with the Great Oxidation Event, so we know life was pretty
> abundant at that time. Yeah, let's go with 2 billion years...
> 
> So 2 billion years. That's 2,000 million years. At one probe
> (ship?) sent towards us every million years, there's been
> THOUSANDS sent to our solar system. Thousands.
> 
> There's been roughly 65 since the dinosaurs went extinct, and
> two to three just since the genus Homo arose...
> 
> Want to look for aliens? Look here.
> 
> "The earth is to geologically active. Even if we knew the
> exact spot one landed (crashed) 80 million years ago, that
> spot may not still exist."
> 
> True.
> 
> So maybe the best place to look would be out in our solar
> system, not on the surface of the earth...
> 
> LANDING a probe on the surface makes things infinitely
> tougher!  Gravity. Volcanic activity. Oceans. Climate. Etc.
> 
> Now you've got to start building more & more intricate
> scenarios, more specific, detailed, and vastly more difficult
> to test. So, just look in space. Look to our solar system.
> 
> DIGITAL CLOCK
> 
> If you found a small chunk of a digital clock you very likely
> would be unable to guess what it was, what it came from. But
> you certainly would know that it's man made.
> 
> The same would be true of alien tech.
> 
> An old probe getting battered out in the solar system for
> millions of years may be reduced to fragments. But a fragment
> is all we need. A fragment all by itself tell us, "We are
> not alone."

So was that a fossilized cylindrical battery, or a jellyfish?

I am thinking that was 'In Search Of' with Leonard
Nimoy.