Posted on 04/05/2005 9:36:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I wonder if those "earths" have the kind of loonies that ours has.
The three keys to real estate:
Location
Location
Location
Since the alternative earths are in the wrong location (ie. far from us) they are worthless to us.
Key word.
Unless we can really master warp speed travel. Then we can send liberals to one of these alternate worlds, since they seem to live in one anyway.
What did these planets do to us to deserve that.
exoplanet ping!
"The Truth Is Out There!!"
I wonder if they know who discovered THIS earth...
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And 1,000 years, or even 10,000 years, is not much in the human time scale. We've been walking around on this planet for what, a few million years? So isn't it feasible that somewhere, some civilization could have just been a slight bit faster? Or are we really the fastest, or nearly the fastest. I just don't understand why no one has contacted us if there are so many civilizations out there.
Hey why give the liberals a chance at a better planet. I say leave them behind so they can continue saving it and we can go out and populate a few dozen of them. And when they have aborted themselves to death we can come back and reclaim the planet.
We've only been transmitting to the universe for a few decades, so almost certainly none of them would have any idea we're here. Even if there are 10,000 detectable civilizations in the galaxy, the galaxy is so big that the nearest one on average would be about 1,000 light years away. Any civilization further than 120 light years away would hear nothing but silence coming from our direction, no matter how sensitive their instruments.
Hmm.. I may need to recalculate my solution to the Drake Equation.. ;^) The frequency of close-orbit gas giants has been a key factor in 'rare earth' hypotheses of recent years. If their presence very near a star doesn't significantly diminish the formation of rocky planets, then that undercuts them in a major way.
The ability to receive radio transmissions is fairly new. Even newer is the ability to discern that radio transmissions might be sent to us from other civilizations.
Figure, SETI has actively been looking for intelligent life via radio transmissions since 1984. This gives us a 21 light-year range of possible places in the universe that might be sending us messages via light-speed radio transmissions.
21 light years is pretty small.
Furthermore, while intelligent, even highly advanced cultures may thrive on other worlds, intergalactic travel at speeds faster than light may indeed be impossible as currently theorized. Like us, these other civilizations might be unable to develop spacecraft capable of travelling through the vastness of our galaxy (not to mention the universe). This could explain why aliens aren't dropping by daily.
Or maybe we are alone (though I believe this is unlikely).
60, not 120 light years.
It was about 60 years ago our radio transmissions were strong enough to break the ionosphere's interference.
Of course, maybe it's not a swell idea to stumble around in the dark, shouting, "HERE I AM" :
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688139892/ref=ase_cssf-20/103-0456473-4825460
Preferably, inhabitable, but inhospitable..
Thanks for the ping!
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