There most definitely out there but if there more advanced than we are they won't bother with us until we've at least spilled out into the solar system. At that point we'll be better able to find E.T. with what will be vastly improved techology. I hope we find E.T. for not the techological advances we might glean from them but from the maturity standpoint. Were probably several hundred years from getting ourselves squared away as a mature species and it would be nice if we could figure out how to live together on this planet. That in of itself would go a long way in advancing ourselves and bettering the human existence. I'm not sure if we sould transmit anymore signals other than what we already have. As it stands now I don't believe the information via radios waves has reached anyone yet. The voyager spacecraft already has our address and that should be it. If the odds dictate someone finds that spacecraft I'm hoping we'll be prepared to say hello not from an offensive stance but from a defensive standpoint so we can say "we can take care of ourselves please be nice"!
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