Now it's time to get really serious... Through something that seems like a divine intervention we have arrived at intelligent life, although I understand there are some reservations about that statement.
Because so many things had to be just right for us to be where we are now, the atomic weight of hydrogen, and God knows what else, it seems to me like maybe we are the millionth iteration of a continuous process, the birth and death of the Universe, birth and death, birth and death, birth and death, millions of times, until we arrive at this universe where we happen to be intelligent.
That we could be in an iteration where we are the only intelligent species experience, and we die out, it's possible. But the iterations will continue, and eventually there will be an iteration where there are multiple intelligent species scattered throughout the universe.
If we happen to be in that iteration, then there is other intelligent life, if we're not in that iteration, then there is no other intelligent life.
So let's be positive about this, let's assume we are in a universe where there are other intelligent beings scattered throughout the universe. And again adopting the iterative process, let's assume that there is no way these races can communicate with each other unless there is is instantaneous communication, communication not governed by the speed of light.
Let's also assume that there are intelligence life forms out there that are more intelligent than humans, and that have been around longer than the human race.
All of these ideas are fanciful if we are the only iteration, but if there are multiple millions and billions of iterations of the Universe then what I am saying is going to be true somewhen, maybe now for instance.
So that means it is possible that somewhere in this universe an intelligent race has devised a means of instantaneous communication.
Why am I harping on about instant communication? What's the point? The point is whats the point of the Universe with intelligent life, life spread out through the universe, if it cannot communicate? it just doesn't make sense. It makes more sense that eventually an iteration will evolve where the intelligent life will be able to communicate throughout the universe.
So as I said earlier let's assume there's the Volans, who are millions of years in advance of us, and have instant communication. What is their goal with this instant communication? Well they want to communicate with other races of course, races spread out throughout the universe just the same as we do.
Protecting ourselves into the future, as we developed this instant communication. We know there are potentially other races out there, what would be our goal? Our goal would be to tell them how to develop instant communication technology for themselves
So what would you do? you would leave breadcrumbs littered throughout the universe, bread crumbs explaining how to develop this instant communication yourself.
It's like the Voyager satellite I mentioned earlier I understand it has some means whereby an alien culture could start off with simple basic logic and gradually build up through the logic the information provided on the Voyager to read and understand our language.
It follows that a sufficiently advanced race would provide the same thing for other races. A way for them to develop the technology to communicate instantaneously.
So that means out there in the universe there is a flashing star, or maybe a different coloured nebula, something staring us in the face which is the first key to the knowledge, the first step to deciphering the language and techniques of the advanced civilisation that wants to communicate with us.
Let's Describe the technology. We need something that can either communicate instantaneously, or can go back in time. We need to trigger a star or something capable of flash like a Beacon in an intelligent manner to attract the interest of intelligent life.
So we either need to go back in time and affect the development of a particular star so that it flashes in a particular rhythm, or we need some instantaneous power, like an instant laser that travels through space instantaneously and can make a star flash in a Morse code type way.
Now it's obvious that we can't do that, but a sufficiently intelligent race might be able to So we need to follow the breadcrumbs, what would they be? What would they look like? What would they say? Somebody should at least be looking for that!
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