that has nothing to do with why I asked that question lol. if you have to investigate every single one that shows signs of life, that would mean investigating a lot of worlds before you find any with intelligence.
oh god. my first girlfriend's dad showed me his gun collection the first time I visited the house and I got so absorbed in field stripping his MAK-90 that I forgot she was there
nah if you open up just insulting all the people around you, I don't owe you reading the rest of your post.
it is, however, the reason Emeril Lagasse yells BAM!
apparently he used to be a culinary teacher and he would do it to wake people up.
and if life is as abundant as we think, how are they going to tell the difference between intelligent and non-intelligent life
it's literally impossible to exist without doing that
yo FUCK that tank.
seriously though, I think life on other planets probably just usually evolves underground, so even if they develop some sort of intelligence they're not looking up at the sky so they have no motivation to explore beyond their atmosphere no matter how advanced they get.
there was a planet in The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe that had thick cloud cover so that people never even conceived of an existence beyond their planet. when a spaceship crashed there, it never even occurred to them that it might have come from the sky
your paragraphs complaining about it are a lot more annoying than the people who might not be being totally serious on the internet for a minute.
evidence of human existence has only gotten what, 150 lightyears out into space?
sentience. I think it usually immediately leads to suicide
aids is a great way to lose weight though