Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
Alright, last time I'm gonna respond. For life to exist there are a specific set of things that are neccesary. An atmosfere, liveable climate(not too hot, not too cold) and water. The distance of a planet to it's sun is the most important thing in that.
Anthropocentric nonsense. We don't have the first idea where life can exist except Earth, but that doesn't mean that Earth is the only possible kind of planet where life could evolve.

Our planet is about 146 million km from the sun. If the earth would be even a few kilometers closer or further away, the planet would be uninhabitable. Do you understand the chance of such a planet evolving in our backyard so to say?
First, Earth's perihelion is 147mil km. Second, Earth's aphelion is 152mil km, which is rather more than "a few kilometers".

Third, we have no clue how common planets are in the universe, because we don't have the ability to see them. All we can do is watch stars which are influenced by extremely massive nearby planets. Until we are actually able to detect smaller planets at greater orbital distances, we can't make any definitive statements on their commonality.

Again, I'll say it one more time, the reason I chose that distance is because some astrophycisists calculated that that planet would (probably) have the conditions needed for a habitable planet. Again, I thought it wasn't really a great paper, lot's of assumptions.
Assumptions were made, but the planet itself does exist, and we can be certain of a couple of fundamental factors beyond that. The assumptions weren't "This exist and is this", the assumptions were "Okay, if it is X then what happens? What about if it's Y?" and they went on to basically answer those. They never shied away from saying "Don't get your hopes up, but it's an interesting place to examine and we just maybe will learn from it."

Statistics often say that other life should exist, but only because of the size of the universe, which is basically infinite. No actual radio transmissions have ever been detected, and that's called the Fermi-Hart paradox.
Okay, just one of many, MANY possible responses to the Fermi Paradox is: What if they're deliberately not contacting us a la Starfleet's Prime Directive?

If they were a thousand times more advanced, they would've been so for a long time, which means we would've picked up their radio transmissions by now if they were in any "close" proximity(fyi, radio transmissions travel by nearly the speed of light).
Not if the Singularity proves to be an accurate model of technological development. Remember, even if it is accurate, we're only just reaching the leading edge of the upswing now - and we still went from not having radio to being on the moon in 75 years. Oh, and, of course, we're already beginning to abandon a lot of uses of radio.