There's this...well it's considered serious, issue called the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi paradox is basically the apparent contradiction between the high probability extraterrestrial civilizations' existence and the lack of contact with such civilizations. This is, of course, cute. but easily answered, yet even on the "fermi paradox" web page, they have ignored the most obvious answer to the question. Anthropomorphism is bad. Humans are not unique and wonderful snowflakes. Why has no one tried to... read more