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Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
Nautilus ^
| 10/4/2017
| Seth Shostak
Posted on 11/08/2019 8:07:08 PM PST by Duke C.
I’m optimistic by nature—as a scientist, you have to be. But my hopeful feeling is not wishful thinking; it is firmly grounded in the logic of SETI. Half a century sounds like a long time, but the search is truly in its early days. Given the current state of SETI efforts and abilities, I feel that we’re on the cusp of learning something truly revolutionary.
(Excerpt) Read more at getpocket.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; aliens; astronomy; endlessgrants; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; pipedream; science; sethshostak; seti; skepticultists; ufo; ufos; worstexcerptever; yurimilner
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:07:08 PM PST
by
Duke C.
To: Duke C.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:10:31 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
Here is an alternative hypothesis on ET
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:13:03 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^s)
To: Duke C.
An optimistic astronomer with feelings and a great big gubmint grant?
Please, tell me more!!
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:14:53 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
To: Duke C.
The likelihood of finding a planet with ALL the requirements to support life AND for that life to exist at all, much less to be intelligent enough to build a transmitter, are virtually nil. The odds are like 1:10e-300.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:15:01 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
To: DoodleBob
To: Duke C.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:15:49 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:19:09 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Vivat Jesus)
To: Duke C.
Ridiculous, we only have 11 years left.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:22:53 PM PST
by
A strike
( Every knee shall bow)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Are you not familiar with the Drake equation?
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:23:16 PM PST
by
golux
To: Blood of Tyrants
“The likelihood of finding a planet with ALL the requirements to support life AND for that life to exist at all, much less to be intelligent enough to build a transmitter, are virtually nil. The odds are like 1:10e-300.”
The problem is when. Some scientists have posited that the amount of time a civilization with a comparable lifespan to ours has between developing radio and collapse from war/pollution/disease is 100-200 years.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:23:39 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
(‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:23:48 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:25:33 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
To: DoodleBob
That’s how I
See those Rascally
“Space Critters!”
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:25:45 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Oh boy oh boy are they going to enjoy anally probing you...
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:26:16 PM PST
by
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
(TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Who said that life has to be like us?
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:27:20 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: golux
Drake was wrong. I saw the Kanamits on TV.
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:30:27 PM PST
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Wrong - I already found aliens, but they're too dumb to build a transmitter:
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:32:15 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
To: Viking2002
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:36:17 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Blood of Tyrants
e? You mean Euler’s number?
Do you mean -300 as a subtrahend or an exponent?
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posted on
11/08/2019 8:43:21 PM PST
by
be-baw
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