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It's because we have chins. They think we're weird.
Perhaps we're just not as interesting as we think. Maybe aliens don't want to contact us for the same reason I don't want to contact kids playing in the park: I'm simply uninterested in whatever they're doing.
I remember a comedian making a joke about this. It's like getting a signal from your dog to come out to the back yard.
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Time.
Timeline wise, we could be at the beginning of when other species are becoming sentient. Or we could have missed them by a billion years. The gap to get in contact is so massive that the odds are stacked against it ever happening.
I think this is part of it. If the speed of light is the speed limit of matter, it would be very difficult to travel anywhere within reasonable amount of time considering norminal life spans of even the longest living things on Earth.
This is the answer,
100 different civilizations could have happened in our galaxy in the last 1 million years with only a few centuries of them emitting detectable signals.
And it could be worse, it could be 10 civilizations in the last 1 billion years.
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Blipblop: “Those creatures on that planet are perplexing. Constantly at war, decimating their natural resources, consuming everything in their paths. Like a cancer overtaking an organism. Should we contact them?”
Morklorp: “Are you fucking crazy?”
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Why the clickbait? Just put why in the title
The whole article is the why. Not just a single headline-appropriate bullet point.
It's the title of the article. Should the OP just put whatever they want for a title?
Yes, appended in square brackets, to indicate that it is not part of the original text.
This is a service I would appreciate. Or at least put it in the description.
Yes, modern article titles are designed to get you to click it so they make money off advertising to you
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