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There should be billions of Earths out there. Why can’t we find them?
https://www.popsci.com ^ | June 24, 2020 | By Charlie Wood

Posted on 06/24/2020 9:09:55 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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61 posted on 06/24/2020 10:48:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s amazing to me that so many people seem to think that planets in far-flung galaxies existing under conditions which we may not have yet imagined, must have ‘life’ and even ‘technologies’ just like ours...


62 posted on 06/24/2020 10:57:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: RomanSoldier19

We’re under quarantine due to the sin virus so they are all cloaked from us so our peering through telescopes won’t infect their sanctified lives!!! Be patient, because soon that will all be changed in the blink of an eye... keep looking up though... and think about repenting.


63 posted on 06/24/2020 11:02:14 PM PDT by SierraWasp (MASA (Make America Straight Again!!!))
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To: lonestar67
They should have reached out and found us a thousand times over

If they are technologically behind us, they are incapable of it. If they are even four thousand years more advanced, we have nothing to offer them. Would we spend billions of dollars, maybe trillions, to go have a big pow-wow with cavemen halfway across the galaxy?

64 posted on 06/24/2020 11:06:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: RomanSoldier19

Are you kidding me? As nuts as this place is, I’d hide from us, too.


65 posted on 06/24/2020 11:26:58 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Olog-hai

Well, language aside, if there’s nobody else out there, it would be an ‘awful waste of space’.


66 posted on 06/24/2020 11:29:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SierraWasp

We’re under quarantine due to the sin virus so they are all cloaked from us so our peering through telescopes won’t infect their sanctified lives

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That possibility has occurred to me as well. Following my own imperfect logic, I also thought that if one or many civilizations exists that did not “partake of the forbidden fruit”, couldn’t there be one or many, like us, who did?


67 posted on 06/24/2020 11:35:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjo picker on my entire block)
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To: desertfreedom765

Time.

As vast as is the universe, Time is even more vast.

We have had broadcasting technology for less than 200 years. Let’s call it the “radio age”

What are the odds another civilization’s “radio age” results in a broadcast that travels over millions of light years to exactly correspond with our ability to detect it.


68 posted on 06/24/2020 11:41:06 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: desertfreedom765

The Goldilocks Zone

Where your chances of dying from bear attacks are the highest.


69 posted on 06/24/2020 11:52:46 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Graybeard58

I suppose there is a temptation to speculate. So many here have gotten so used to the sinful nature of human nature that it’s hard for them to believe that we might be the only ones who joined the rebellion against the Almighty. We’ll certainly find out during the trip through the universe after the second manifestation of said Almighty who will soon arrive! The first rebel is really busy these days because his time is almost up!!!


70 posted on 06/24/2020 11:54:09 PM PDT by SierraWasp (MASA (Make America Straight Again!!!))
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To: Veggie Todd

You win the Internet today!


71 posted on 06/25/2020 1:18:12 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: GOPJ
Terence McKenna had this to say about SETI:

To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant.
72 posted on 06/25/2020 1:48:45 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

bkmk


73 posted on 06/25/2020 2:01:17 AM PDT by sbnsd
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To: Salvavida

“Perhaps the black book is actually true, and there doesn’t HAVE to be anything other than what is manifested by a Creator. Just as plausible.”

THANK YOU!

These kinds of threads remind me of when Badger and Skinny Pete spend hours making up fake plots for Star Trek on “Breaking Bad”.


74 posted on 06/25/2020 2:07:42 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

I know, it drives me absolutely mad to see this BS. It really shows how biblically illiterate our nation is and moreover, how to settle truth claims.


75 posted on 06/25/2020 2:15:45 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

Exactly.


76 posted on 06/25/2020 2:17:55 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: lonestar67

Just because we can’t detect any doesn’t mean nobody is out there. There’s a hundred billion stars in this galaxy on the low end. An earth-like planet bearing life would be... difficult to find.


77 posted on 06/25/2020 2:28:20 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: lonestar67

please read this sentence:

“[Truly Earthlike planets] are not hiding per se, it’s just that the sensitivity of our telescopes is simply not good enough yet [to find them],”


78 posted on 06/25/2020 2:41:59 AM PDT by PIF (Q)
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To: RomanSoldier19

They are radioing back “Send less Justin Bieber.”


79 posted on 06/25/2020 3:01:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Fungi

Well they don’t evolve but viruses tend to mutate quite quickly.

And if it’s done to protect themselves from new treatments then that is kind of evolving


80 posted on 06/25/2020 3:05:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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