Posted on 03/05/2009 6:03:25 PM PST by LibWhacker
"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.) *
Yepper!
I agree with you. You’re pretty darn smart!!
[singing] friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship...
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
You’re 99 and 44/100ths per cent pure, I can sense it. ;’)
But of course!!!
;oþ
Ping for later.
Just thought I'd mention that, although I suppose everyone already knows. )
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!
Will Spacecraft ever Go Faster than the speed of Light?
Various - See Text | 16 FEB 2003 | Various
Posted on 02/16/2003 2:16:44 PM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844807/posts
112 posted on 08/20/2005 11:45:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844807/posts?page=112#112
114 posted on 06/25/2006 2:14:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844807/posts?page=114#114
115 posted on 06/25/2006 2:19:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844807/posts?page=115#115
UFO Propulsion SystemsConsidering 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.
by Stanton T. Friedman
*It may have been Sagen or Friedman?
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.
It sounds more like Arthur C. Clarke?
I am leaning towards Carl Sagen....(for the quote).
>>> 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!
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