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Originally Posted by sledger
It's worth bearing in mind that if intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe then there is no reason that any civilisation would be as technologically advanced as we are, in fact some would say if there were it would be a huge coincidence.
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Yea. It is virtually impossible that we'd meet someone at the same level of development as we are. They'd likely to be much more advanced, or in the stone age.
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Originally Posted by sledger
For me personally the biggest and nearest chance of life exisiting elsewhere in the universe would be the andromeda galaxy, certainly not the milkyway, but again...this is something ulikely to be resolved in our lifetimes.
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Why not in the milky way? Andromeda is bigger (a trillion stars), but Milky Way has 200 billion stars. However, that may not be a big advantage, considering that it may mean more supernovas wiping out life left and right.