12th August 2009, 12:01 AM
Or, that any extraterrestrial advanced intelligence would know anything about human DNA.
Or that the very first radio signal we'd ever discover of any such civilization would contain a message specifically for us, since we would have, before that point, found much radio transmission from the same source before they ever got around to firing anything specifically at us.
Add to all that the remarkable unlikelihood that any advanced, radio-transmitting civilization has ever existed within a billion light years of us, and yeah, you have an impossible movie.
Of course, it means that any movie featuring alien visitors is equally unlikely.
Or that the very first radio signal we'd ever discover of any such civilization would contain a message specifically for us, since we would have, before that point, found much radio transmission from the same source before they ever got around to firing anything specifically at us.
Add to all that the remarkable unlikelihood that any advanced, radio-transmitting civilization has ever existed within a billion light years of us, and yeah, you have an impossible movie.
Of course, it means that any movie featuring alien visitors is equally unlikely.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR