Is Conventional start innately harder?

[serger]

Hopefully in the real universe, aliens will have the same courtesy 

Well, they have, obviously.
~10 billion years (twice the Sol system age) from the start of spawning Population I (high metallicity) star systems - and "where everybody is"?..

[skoormit]

Hopefully in the real universe, aliens will have the same courtesy 

Well, they have, obviously.
~10 billion years (twice the Sol system age) from the start of spawning Population I (high metallicity) star systems - and "where everybody is"?..

They are already here.

[vorpal+5 (OP)]

That's certainly the most intriguing incident to date...

[SpikeTheHobbitMage]

Hopefully in the real universe, aliens will have the same courtesy 

Well, they have, obviously.
~10 billion years (twice the Sol system age) from the start of spawning Population I (high metallicity) star systems - and "where everybody is"?..

They are already here.

That one has already been debunked.  Telephoto video can easily make even a stationary object look arbitrarily faster than the plane filming it.

[Gabethebaldandbold]

our aliens are Non-TN, they will never leave their own planets.

[SpikeTheHobbitMage]

our aliens are Non-TN, they will never leave their own planets.

If they are anything like humans then that is probably for the best.