>> Umm yeah that's what I just said.  Thanks for agreeing :)
> Excuse my redundancy.
Oh it's quite a welcome change from the head to head clashes I keep bumping 
into recently! ;)
> I could have added that most other intelligent races in our galaxy
> could easily be millions of years more advanced than we are.
Well yes quite, I imagine that there are worlds out there that have life much 
more technologically developed than us, and differently developed,
and worlds out there where right now an amoeba is splitting for the
very first time.
> Using known physics as a guide line, Returning the information found
> on earth to their home world, the aliens would be communicating to
> relatives far into their own future. Whoever sent them on their
> cosmic mission would have a wait of thousands of years for the
> results of said mission. ...It almost seems pointless.
Well it depends on what they are like psychologically as well.
I mean I can imagine aliens and humans having completely different
ideas about what sort of things are worthwhile or pointless.
I think that will prove an even larger gap than technological ones.
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