That division is the dark forest into which we have wandered, and the real challenge is that the world is not going to wait for us while we figure ... to the north and south.

We used to be such optimists. Technology would bring us a world of wealth in harmony with the environment, and even bring us new worlds. The Internet would erase national boundaries, replace ...

If one of them waves hello, then that Dark Forest will get a brightly lit campfire for us to see. But technically anything is possible considering we don’t have any evidence for ETIs to begin with.

It could be that we simply haven't been looking long enough, nor emitting our own traceable signatures for aliens to find us yet ... end of the spectrum falls Dark Forest Theory, a piece of ...