To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
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- Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
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