COMPUTERS AND IMAGING TECHNOLOGY PRODUCING AN ASTRONOMICAL REVOLUTION: 55 Cancri Super-Earth Spotted With Ground-Based Telescope. “Computer and sensor advances have made telescopes of all sizes much more powerful. What this means: Any intelligent civilization that reaches our level of technological development will be able to search for and find planets which have a substantial chance of harboring life. Any civilization in our neighborhood that is much older than ours was able to detect our sun a long time ago and find evidence of the planets in orbit around our sun. Surely technologies for detecting intelligent life are also very advanced in civilizations that past our point of development a long time ago. So what strikes me: If there are other intelligent and industrialized species out there in our arm of the Milky Way Galaxy some must know our planet harbors life. But do any yet know our planet has intelligent life? Have any already made the decision to reach us for some purpose?”

Fermi’s Question with a slightly different spin. Of course, maybe they’re on the way. . . .