What Does 60 Years of Silence Tell Us About the Search for Extraterrestrials?

Astronomers have only been scanning the skies for a signal from extraterrestrial civilizations for about 60 years. Although no signal has been found, a new study suggests that this lack of detection can help us predict what the future holds for SETI. According to their analysis, this means there's a 50% probability that Earth won't detect signals for the next 60 to 1800 years. The post What Does 60 Years of Silence Tell Us About the Search for Extraterrestrials? appeared first on Universe Today.