Also how much supposed leasure time is wasted sitting in all those cars, making the people frustrated, sick and unfulfilled?

I don’t think that we are pretty early. Our galaxy already exists for so long, it’s unfathomable. Yet, it seems to be empty and lifeless.

My friend, that’s exactly my point. That is, they’ve had enough time to show up but they are nowhere to be seen.

As you said, after the formation of Earth, it took only a few hundred milion years for life to develop. That is incredibly short, almost instanteneously as soon as conditions for life were met, life formed. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, formed almost as soon as galaxies could form. So here we have a situation where a inteligent civilization could have formed anywhere in our galaxy 13 bil years ago or at any point in time after that. Chance is, if they had, by now they would have conquered the whole galaxy. Absence of any sign of inteligent life can be wxplained by the Great Filter. It could be any of the following: 1) interstellar travel is never feasible for any civ, no matter how advanced, 2) Earth-like planets are so rare, that we are probably the only inteligent civ in our galaxy, 3) Earth-like planets are not that rare, but inteligent civs tend to destroy themselves before they manage to spread out to other planets… We don’t know what the Great Filter is, but it must be pretty destructive for a civ. I just want to point out the fact that the Great Filter is probably still ahead of us and that we shouldn’t take our existence for granted. We need to meticulously examine and neutralize any possible threats to human civilization. This is not fearmongering. It’s just common sense, after you take all the facts into account that I laid out.

So if they are right, the Earth is incredibly rare and would be a great find for space faring civilizations. They also had plenty of time to pass by and find this incredibly rare life bearing sphere. But they didn’t. You can flip things how ever you want, the question remains - why haven’t we seen anyone?

Bolithia

And if anything, the whole talk about AIPAC these days has taught me that influencing the US political process from foreign countries is… not that bad.

Get off the news cycle.

Phase 1: It’s not happening at all

Phase 2: It’s happening, but it’s a natural process

Phase 3: Ok, it’s happening and it’s your fault

Phase 4: ???

In the Balkans, whenever people rise in peaceful protest against a corrupt goverment, that particular government sends 50 or so crack heads to join the protests and start demolishing stuff, so that an overwhelming police force can then disperse the legitimate protests. I’ve seen it play out times and times again.

I have recently come to the conclusion that there are cognitively functional people with a sound mind that believe that it is not possible to know anything for sure. Like, it’s not possible to know if the scientists are telling the truth. We just have to take their word for it. Why not stick to the thousand year old belief system then? It has better apologists, armed with an experience of hundreds of years of demagogy and dogma regarding fending of criticism of said belief system.

Do the people in Germany know this? Because I’ve heard that the media there only focus on Hamas in this conflict, and I think that this is an dishonest approach to reporting news. And why is it important what Germany thinks you say? Because, as the most populous and economiclaly active country in the EU, it is very influential in the policy making of EU.

It’s already happening.

Chrome: First-party spyware.

That wouldn’t stop China in their tracks. The USA is also not a signee of the International Criminal Court. Reason? So they can police the world with no repercusions. So it’s enough if just the perpetrator is not in the organization.

Where do they get that amount of mon- … oh wait…

Link?

I would count as detection if scientists would say “we detected it”.

Nope. Dark matter or dark energy have not been detected, as of yet.

The universe isn’t obligated to us for anything, but we want to understand it and be able to make predictions. Right now we seem not to be able to do that.