Laws of physics as our scientists have discovered until now suggest we know the timeframe of development of other bodies in the Universe.Jim wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:08 am Please correct me if I'm wrong, but our solar system is on the very outer edge of the Milky Way and would be one of the oldest systems in the galaxy, wouldn't it?
So even if their are other planets with intelligent life, they probably aren't as advanced as we are I'd think.
The same has not to be true for predicted lifeforms elsewhere. We just don't know at what stage of development in their local environment we will make the meet-and-greet. Why would their time have to be slower? They could have had their inception starting with far more intelligence (knowldge) than the early single cell critters on earth. Now of course our understanding of intelligence itself presumes a multicellular organism using part of their cells, specialized cells we call a brain, to store and organize information. Plus some inference mechanism to discover something new. Back to the intelligence elsewhere, they could be so advanced we would not recognize it for what it is. Them laughing at those organism fighting for survival in a Petri dish named Earth.