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WhalesVirginia t1_iybgj49 wrote

Reply to comment by lego_office_worker in Extragalactic SETI looks for life beyond the Milky Way. But where? In game theory one solution is a Schelling point — a single event that draws different group's attention. A binary neutron star merger could act as one, because observers across the universe will all be looking in the same direction. by EricFromOuterSpace

No.

You'd have to exhaustively rule out all life.

In your trek to do so you would seed the universe with microbes or heck even those who just split off and settle down, and new forms of life would develop.

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