Trillions?? Then it should be no problem to prove out just one, eh?
They would visit earth just to laugh at us. Probably look at obama and say : “ see? they select their leaders based on stupidity. Time for invasion.”
Cool! Hope they are conservatives.
“Some planets are even likely to have produced intelligent organisms and civilisations, though our chances of locating one of these are remote, Dr Boss said. “Enrico Fermi, the University of Chicago physicist back in the Fifties, said: ‘Where are they?’. The answers at that time ranged from the practical to the suicidal. The suicidal point of view was that maybe it just means that civilisations that are capable of sending us radio signals just don’t last very long. Maybe we’ve only got 1,000 years to go, maybe 10,000. Maybe stars like ours produced life a billion years ago, or will do so a billion years from now.”
This is the most creative argument for Global Warming I’ve read yet, just imagine, a trillion planets, a trillion Al Gores, a trillion...
I think it’s incredibly stupid to assume there is no other forms of life in other universes and galaxies.
“You probably also want to fire off a high-speed little spacecraft, to get there in a couple of thousand years if we can speed it up a bit, and sit and wait for it to send back some pictures. Someone’ll be sitting at a laptop a thousand years later and it’ll be 'OK here it comes, we’ve got an email'.”More likely what will happen is this:
We launch a probe that will take a thousand years to reach its planetary target. But a hundred years later, we're able to launch probes that are 10 times faster. And a hundred years after that, probes that are 100 times faster. So by the time that first probe sends back it's "email", it will be an quaint historical artifact, nothing more.
Which one of those planets will bail us out?
When someone comes up with concrete proof of intelligent life on earth, ping me.
In the refrigerator you already have life. When you turn the refrigerator off the life that is already in there will start growing. You have to create life from non-life, not life from life. So it is not quiet like a refrigerator.
Well, let’s hope one of them is getting it right.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there’s bugger all down here on Earth.
Finding them is the problem.
 |
||
| · join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · | ||
| Google news searches: exoplanet · exosolar · extrasolar · | ||
I imagine some enterprising (Democrat) souls will lead the mission in the name of peace.
We should tax them ALL! (/sarcaasm)