Talk:Carar/@comment-173.184.187.182-20161203053640/@comment-68.238.222.254-20161211202951

A lot of SETI research posits that we might never encounter anothing living civilization owing to timescale misses. A civilization might have a few thousand years of useful function before something wipes them out, they move away, or who-knows-what. In all likelihood, our first hands-on interaction with an alien civilization is widely expected to be in the form of artifacts from a dead race rather than a live intelligent alien squid waving its tentacles at us.

Plus, if the planet really is the site of a Precursor accident or disease outbreak, why would they ever come back? It's been quarantined. You don't break a quarantine until the disease is confirmed gone. And maybe not even then. Why would they risk going back to a place they know is deadly just to check on it? It'd be weirder if we actually DID bump into Precursors on 4546B.