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Originally Posted by maddog
It may not be just that they do not wish to be detected.
Consider this analogy first. Say you would like to communicate with an ant. How would you go about it ? Forms of communication are very different. How would you get
your point across to a creature that is developmentally on a lower scale that ours. Now
reverse this; say we are the ants. How would we communicate with anyone out there ?
It may not be so much that they don't want to talk with. They not have the interest like
we what interest would we have conversing with ants.
Second, is the technology of communication. Who is to say that future civilizations wish
to modulate radio signals the way we do right now. Imagine a culture with 10,000 years
of technology advancements. Could we guess what types of communication is being sent
to us right now, only we don't know it ??? 
maddog |
I think your ant analogy is a strawman. We are not ants. What we know about ants is the manifestation of our interest in ants.
Logically since we know that radio signal modulation works, any other suitably intelligent beings may also know it. Certainly we can and do guess about what we don't know, but it is always prefaced on what we do know.
