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Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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| Paul Patton
Posted on 04/07/2015 10:29:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:29:47 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
They are not visiting us to study us, we are the garbage dump of the universe...
To: BenLurkin
Some have a hard time grasping that this the only planet with intelligent life.
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:33:53 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(An armed society is a polite society.)
To: exnavy
There may be others out there — but we’re not likely to ever meet them.
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:35:30 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:36:52 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(An armed society is a polite society.)
To: Resolute Conservative
They are not visiting us to study us, we are the garbage dump of the universe...Interesting observation - not sure upon what, perhaps other than cynicism, it is based, though...
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:46:43 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: exnavy
Ah yes, the smug certainty that you know everything. Any scientifically literate person who has any other response than “we have no way of knowing” is delusional.
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:48:42 AM PDT
by
Go_Raiders
(Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
To: BenLurkin
...already?
The distances are beyond incomprehensibly vast
and humans with writing
have been here only for a geologic ‘second’.
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:48:43 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I heard from a comic a while back poking fun at all the UFO’ers.
To: exnavy
Have you been to all umpteen katrillion planets to verify your statement ?
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:54:06 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: exnavy
Provide evidence of said “grasping” that you have done.
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:54:57 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: UCANSEE2
Good afternoon.
I just had to...
umpteen katrillion planets
I have to disagree. There are umpteen katrillion planets plus one.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:58:55 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: BenLurkin
You remind me of the people who wanted to close the patent office after in the late 1800’s because everything was already invented, after all we had the steam engine!
Has you ever considered we may not know everything there is to know about math and science? And FTL travel may exist? (and is already been proven mathematically to be possible)
Besides, Bob Lazar told everyone the government already has alien spacecraft with gravity-propulsion systems, and I believe him (seriously, I do)
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posted on
04/07/2015 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(“Imma go out like muthafking Tupac muh n-word yeah bleeved dat”)
To: BenLurkin
The problem with Fermi’s paradox is it ignores just how big space really is. Assuming our earliest radio transmissions (first thing we ever did that could be detected by extraterrestrials) are out there in a readable form right now they’ve covered less than 1% of the galaxy. So “they” could simply be in the other 99% of the galaxy and haven’t had the chance to hear us yet.
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:01:53 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
To: Mr. K
Okay.
When do you or I get to meet one?
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:04:57 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Go_Raiders
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:06:36 AM PDT
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exnavy
(An armed society is a polite society.)
To: BenLurkin
The galaxy center may not be livable. The stars are too close together and radiation levels may be too high.
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:06:41 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: Resolute Conservative
Well, then ... the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob picked an odd place for the restoration of the universe to be centered, with the Messiah of Israel coming back to earth and setting up his Kingdom which will last forevermore, right here on earth.
He sets it up in a garbage dump ... eh?! ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:06:50 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Durus
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posted on
04/07/2015 11:07:06 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(An armed society is a polite society.)
To: UCANSEE2
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04/07/2015 11:07:52 AM PDT
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exnavy
(An armed society is a polite society.)
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