The Pros And Cons Of Alien Civilization

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ay. However, as noted above, given a million years to explore the potential of technology and the peculiarities of space and time (worm-holes, multiple dimensions, etc.) it seems likely that an advanced, ambitious civilization would be able to travel any distance it desired.

Others argue that to assume an alien civilization would be as interested in exploration and colonization as humans are is to commit the anthropomorphic fallacy: the mistaken tendency to attribute human characteristics to non-humans things. There is no reason to suspect that an alien civilization would be anything like our own and it's perfectly possible that they would be content residing within the confines of their own our solar-system.

But even if that were so, it