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mk  ·  3233 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The aliens are silent because they're dead

I'll buy that. However, I expect that more often the life is specialized and unintelligent. Life on Earth can be found at extremes. My guess is that once a planet has it, it becomes hard to shake it entirely. I expect that if Mars ever did have life, pockets of life can be found there today.

We could be extinct or astronomically invisible in a relatively short time, meaning that our intelligent imprint was just a blink.