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Are we alone? Do we want to know?
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| 28 Feb 2015
| Joel Achenbach
Posted on 02/28/2015 4:34:21 PM PST by NRx
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To: NRx
I COME IN PEACE!
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To: NRx
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:21:27 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
That flick was terrible! Where’s Dolph?
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:24:17 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: NRx
SQUINT is the acronym I use for an idea called
S earch for
QU antum
INT ellegence
Have wondered why SETI limits their search to the outer universe
The Microcosm is just as vast
If intelligent life were found in the microcosm it would be much easier to correspond with
I could go on but expect to be clobbered here for just saying this much
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:24:22 PM PST
by
jcon40
To: NRx
This objection is moot, however, according to the proponents of active SETI. They argue that even if there are unfriendlies out there, they already know about us. Thats because I Love Lucy and other TV and radio broadcasts are radiating from Earth at the speed of light. See #20
So the proponents are being a little disingenuous: "Even if there are unfriendlies out there, they already know about us." Horse hockey! Even if they are out there, most of them, and perhaps even all of them, wouldn't have intercepted our broadcasts yet, and it's not too late to go silent; the leading edge of those early broadcasts is extremely attenuated by now and difficult to pick up. We just have to hope that unfriendlies within a hundred light years of us don't have the technology to detect them. In any event, it's obvious that very, very few intelligent species as a percentage of the whole in our galaxy know about us based on those early I Love Lucy type broadcasts. Let's keep it that way!
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:32:57 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I'm not saying it was humans... but it was...
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:33:18 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: NRx
On the other hand, they could be a bit too friendly.
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:36:05 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: NRx
I'm more concerned with... the Borg. Me too.
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:36:45 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: uglybiker
Ming The Merciless: Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror. Ming was my kind of a bloodthirsty despot.
Less than $6.8k to go!!
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02/28/2015 5:44:42 PM PST
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RedMDer
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To: NRx
We come from a galaxy 50,000,000,000 light years away. Prepare to be probed.
To: NRx
...that we are not the only intelligent species in the universe.
Every day we hear nothing increases the chances that we are alone. How sad that will be if true. That said I am against rushing out without scoping out the lie of the land. Further we should become an interstellar civilization with some time amoung the stars before we go around announcing our presence. Folks out there may know we are here, if so they are not talking.
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:45:19 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: NRx
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:49:08 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: JesusIsLord
Stupid Hippies ruined everything....
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:49:50 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: NRx
And if WE are the most advanced and smartest race out there? It's just as likely as another species being it.
But that never gets brought up.
/johnny
To: jcon40
Good point. As the micro so the macro.
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:53:23 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: JRandomFreeper
Until there’s evidence of life beyond this blue orb it’s just as “correct” to say that we’re it, as it is to assume that we’re not. Seems highly unlikely in light of the apparent scale of the universe, but until it’s known it’s conjecture.
To: BenLurkin
Agree. Very tongue in cheek and self deprecating humor. Charles Nelson Reilly was a riot.
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posted on
02/28/2015 5:59:30 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: RegulatorCountry
The proper answer, without evidence is: "Who knows?"
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
So GOOD tro see you. You are in my faithful prayers.
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posted on
02/28/2015 6:07:19 PM PST
by
onyx
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