Posted on 08/26/2013 4:29:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
On the other hand, there seems some connection of the chemical reproduction of certain clay minerals and the biological reproduction of species?
I think it’s all terrestrial.
...After God....
I always had this thought where by the time civilization has split the atom, the clock is ticking to whether they will be able to take off from their planet or they will collapse at some point. Since World War II, we have been in that race. I can’t say for certain but I am convinced that civilization might have risen once or twice prior to our and then they collapsed. It reminds me of the book, “A Canticle for Leibowitz.”
Who's talking about time travel?
The Alcubierre “Warp Drive” isn’t physics; it’s fiction.
So was heavier-than-air manned flight, until the Wright brothers did it. Landing men on the moon was widely ridiculed at one time, because it seemed so far-fetched.
You live in an age of technological marvels and breakthroughs. Things are yet to be invented that seem like pure science fiction to you today.
The Earth and the Moon are aligned in such a way that the Sun casts a total eclipse for us to see and understand that Einstein was correct.
Interesting coincidence don’tcha think.
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What are the odds ?
You would think that some guys would have done the math ?
Oh, wait, they did the math.
Ok, so, that’s not important right now, we got a story to tell.
A lot of hard archaeological evidence has been found that supports that hypothesis, but most of it has been shut away in the basements and back rooms of dusty museums by politically correct scientists and researchers.
Can't upset the accepted order, ya know.
That was hillarious, those poor cats didn’t realize who they screwed with, lol.
A civilization intelligent enough to be able to contact us, would be smart enough to recognize the danger of broadcasting your position before you discover the capabilities and intentions of the other civilizations.
I think the great leap will come when we can mine and refine metals in space and build the very large ships we would need for deep space travel. Obviously we aren’t going to see anything approaching light speed in our lifetimes. Probably a few hundred years of expanding across our solar system with ships that can achieve maybe 10% of light speed.
The guy that wrote the book (literally) on Chemical reproduction, came out a few years later and destroyed his own hypothesis.
They still use his book.
Sad.
I believe it was Dean Kenyon.
Very interesting twist wasn’t it.
Maybe radio waves are as quaint as two cans a string to et???
Yes it was, I like the jaw dropping conclusion that the alien captain had at the end, WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
I think by the end of the next decade humans have pretty much taken over the galaxy at that point....
I agree.
I think you're right, but I'd put the timescale at closer to a hundred years hence - IF we can keep from blowing each other up in our petty squabbles back home.
We're in the so-called 'J-curve' of technological development now. The pace of discovery is literally straight up, and accelerating. The only things that can slow it down, are lack of will to push the boundaries forward, or outright suppression of actual advancements.
If we can somehow survive and overcome our specie's violent tendencies, we'll make it to the stars.
I've said for years that SETI is monitoring the wrong spectrum.
I had just never really thought of it from that direction before but it appears to be the way Turtledove writes all the time.
They could travel all across the galaxy at will but had zero understanding of anything above muzzle loading rifles.
With that being said, I don't believe for a second that we're the sole creation of God..........There would have been no reason for Him to stop with us......
The Deadelus project is the direction I think we’ll take.
http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/tau-zero-project-daedalus-icarus-110119.htm
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