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Gourdhead, How do you account for us not having heard from these other races?
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Obviously I don't know. Some reasons may be:
The MW is not old enough for enough techies to have developed near enough to us.
Their signals are not strong enough for us to detect or they are modulated in ways we have not thought of detecting.
Their history has taught them to be very very cautious about kicking over their version of Pandora's Box.
I believe that those who achieve interstellar travel are very hard to totally wipe out; either intentionally or unintentionally as will we be.
Many of them inaccurately assessed the benevolence of the universe and are no longer around.
There is a pressing urgency for us to continuously accelerate our technological development to ever increasing levels of galactic environment management. The Incas and the Aztecs allowed themselves to be diverted into cultural activities that led to their demise and we seem to be unwittingly following their example (i.e., the energy devoted to sports, rock concerts, churchism, templeism, mosqueism, etc.,).
The hazardness of our position in the universe is not unlike that of barnacles on the side of a ship that tides rub incessantly against the pier to which it is moored.