Posted on 03/01/2023 10:33:19 AM PST by JustaTech
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.01208.pdf
In terms of "disclosure" as we hear talked about these days, I supposethis would be one of the gentlest and least scary ways to break the news that we aren't alone. It might go something like this:
Our scientific consensus is, that this data indicates probable existence of a highly-advanced interstellar civilization in a region of our galaxy. The fact that the star systems with these characteristics are all clumped into one region of space indicates their mode of travel is within known physics. They have no prospect of reaching Earth within the next few centuries.
So it's the tiniest step possible. Yes, they exist. With nothing else to deal with because we can never encounter them within the foreseeable future.
We'll see.
How is their balloon technology?
Asking for a friend.
Whatever ET wants, the answer is ‘No’.
If they are Dyson Spheres, watch out!.................
More paid scientific consensus…. #MustBeTheMoney
Does this guy ever blink his eyes?
only when he poops out a pineapple or 2
Don't worry. Louis Wu will take care of it.
Unless and until we either find life somewhere else or figure out how to make a living organism from scratch in a laboratory we have no idea how common or rare life (let alone intelligent life) is in the universe.
Making complex organic molecules is easy. Simply take hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and a few other elements, put them in a compressed environment with an energy source, and stir them for a few million years. Gas giants are great for that.
How to make the jump from the most complex organic molecules to the simplest living organism is entirely unknown.
They’ll never say “we’re wrong about what we know and our ‘laws’ of physics.” Another species could fly a ship from Jupiter’s orbit to our own in a month, and scientists will still say “that’s within what we thought.”
That was Ringworld.
I’ll just say that astronomers estimate there are between 100 million to 400 million stars in our galaxy alone. The odds of us being alone in the galaxy are slim as far as I’m concerned.
Even Alexander, the great stopped his campaign at the edge of the known world, because he had no clue what to expect. I highly suggest we keep our heads down.
So - a Kardashev Class II. Keeping in mind that humanity is barely a Class .72
Ever heard of the Fermi Paradox? If there is a cluster of inhabited solar systems, then it would stand to reason that some have been around for millions of years already. It’s hard to imagine a reason why they wouldn’t have found the big blue marble with van Allen belts ready made.
“...we’re wrong about what we know and our ‘laws’ of physics.”
“...fly a ship from Jupiter’s orbit to our own in a month, and scientists will still say “that’s within what we thought.”
Odd comment. There’s no prohibition in the laws of physics against travelling from jupiter to earth in a month.
I think it’s quite possible they may be among us and always have been.
I’ve always believed the universe is teeming with life, based on the fact that nothing in the observable universe happens just once.
From top to bottom, macro to micro, nothing in the universe happens once. There’s not just one galaxy, there are (minimum) hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of galaxies. And in those galaxies there’s not just one star, but hundreds of billions or trillions of stars, surrounded by literally innumerable planets. Irrefutable proof that nothing happens just once.
And on our planet life has taken many, many diverse forms, again from macro to micro, and multiple times. All spawned from the same universe that never creates anything just once. It’s impossible, in my mind, to believe the same pattern hasn’t happened countless times across the universe.
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