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Kepler, SETI and Ancient Probes
Centauri Dreams ^ | 3/5/09

Posted on 03/05/2009 6:03:25 PM PST by LibWhacker

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To: Monkey Face
Some do. Some think maybe there are, maybe there aren't, but that our knowledge is complete and correct, so there's no way to travel between the stars. I'm not in either category, so... ;') Here's an old favorite quote that's actually pertinent (rare for me, eh?), luckily I found it online, I first heard it on the audiobook version of "Out There":
"Empty space is like a kingdom, and earth and sky are no more than a single individual person in that kingdom. Upon one tree are many fruits, and in one kingdom there are many people. How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the earth and the sky which we can see, there are no other skies and no other earths." -- Teng Mu, a Chinese scholar of the Sung Dynasty (960 -- 1280 A.D.) *

21 posted on 03/06/2009 7:27:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yepper!
I agree with you. You’re pretty darn smart!!


22 posted on 03/06/2009 7:30:09 AM PST by Monkey Face (A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.)
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To: Monkey Face

[singing] friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship...


23 posted on 03/06/2009 8:26:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap!
Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap!
I’d go slippy and a slidey
Over..

Oh...wrong genre....Sorry


24 posted on 03/06/2009 8:28:14 AM PST by Monkey Face (A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.)
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To: Monkey Face

You’re 99 and 44/100ths per cent pure, I can sense it. ;’)


25 posted on 03/06/2009 9:55:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

But of course!!!
;oþ


26 posted on 03/06/2009 9:57:12 AM PST by Monkey Face (A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.)
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To: Eaker

Ping for later.


27 posted on 03/06/2009 11:00:58 AM PST by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: LibWhacker
Launch time, 10:49 PM EST. tonight, bar any problems.

Just thought I'd mention that, although I suppose everyone already knows. )

28 posted on 03/06/2009 6:07:27 PM PST by Drammach (Freedom - It's not just a job, It's an Adventure)
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To: Drammach

Yes, thank you for the reminder. I definitely want to watch it. Probably not enough interest to start a live launch thread though. Thanks again. Very exciting times we live in!


29 posted on 03/06/2009 6:22:30 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Monkey Face

Will Spacecraft ever Go Faster than the speed of Light?
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30 posted on 03/06/2009 6:41:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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UFO Propulsion Systems
by Stanton T. Friedman
Considering that there are stars in our local neighborhood that are billions of years older than the sun, it would not be surprising if interstellar travel has been commonplace for billions of years. Several published papers have concluded that our Milky Way galaxy already has been colonized. Furthermore, it must be noted that travel between star systems is more likely to occur the closer the next system is. Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli are both sunlike stars that are less than three light-weeks apart. Observers on a planet around one of them could easily observe planets around the other. One would certainly expect interstellar travel to develop earlier there than in our isolated corner of the neighborhood, where the nearest star to us is one hundred times farther away than the Zeta Reticulans are from each other.

31 posted on 03/08/2009 4:16:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
Some years ago I read or heard a *scientist's statment that, "other civilizations may be advanced over us, as we are over the earthworm.."

*It may have been Sagen or Friedman?

32 posted on 03/12/2009 2:19:39 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

It’s familiar — possibly a *character* in a sci-fi novel, but I haven’t read that many; could be something said by J. Allen Hynek, who was more of a scientist than many who have claimed to be.


33 posted on 03/12/2009 5:20:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

It sounds more like Arthur C. Clarke?


34 posted on 03/12/2009 5:30:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

I am leaning towards Carl Sagen....(for the quote).


35 posted on 03/12/2009 5:39:01 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

>>> Some years ago I read or heard a *scientist’s statment that, “other civilizations may be advanced over us, as we are over the earthworm..” <<<

What? Earthworm civilizations? The little buggers are civilized now, are they? Why, bless their little aortic arches!


36 posted on 03/12/2009 5:44:24 PM PDT by Poe White Trash
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