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		okreallywtf on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land hu... The reality could be a lot more melancholy. The universe is so vast and intelligent life so rare, countless species could evolve to space faring too far away from each other to ever have a chance to meet. Faint wisps of eons old radio chatter or long dead ruins might be the best we ever get but even that would be life changing.

ethbro on July 13, 2017 [–]

It's inarguable that the final probability of contact is the product of a large number of non-certain events.

By that metric alone, and given that the probability of each of realistically pretty small... contact doesn't seem too likely.

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