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In my Father’s house there are many mansions.
Life is rare on Earth, and most likely non existent everywhere else in the Solar System. Even here on Earth where life has existed for billions of years, civilization has only been around for a few thousand years and technology for a few hundred.
I’m Venus bound...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_YNTQmtGg
Listen up people!
We have been placed on the Intergalactic Federation’s DO NOT CALL List.
We’ve been quarantined
They’re all tired of receiving unsolicited transmissions of Miley Cyrus twerking, Madonna and her snow cone bras, the Khardashians, Lady Gaga. They especially despise Rap.
Unless we stop it, they will send armies of Moose-shell biosynths to punish us. That would be the multi-segmented thorax decapod version with a more horrible voice than the original.
So cut it out. Save our chilrun.
There’s a big sign just beyond Pluto that says “Warning, this solar system inhabited by liberals, stay away!”
I personally don’t care for our definition of habitable.
I think of Mars as habitable in the sense that we’re technologically advanced enough to survive and even thrive there if only in domed habitats. In a few hundred years we may be technologically advanced enough to restart the nuclear furnace at the core of Mars and start rebuilding an atmosphere.
Humans are the most adaptable species ever to exist on the face of the planet. We can adapt to things slightly outside our required parameters. The technology of today and the future can greatly expand those parameters.
Odd.
I know.
I’m sure there are space aliens out there but what the hell good are they? They aren’t cleaning up Fukushima or lowering the cost of gas or beaming the Democrats and GOPe into a black hole so they can go jump into a lake.
The chance of a single cell evolving by chance into life is about one in one trillion. The chance of that single cell evolving into sentience about one in one trillion. So a trillion times a trillion = one sextillion. Divide 40 billion by one sextillion = .000001% chance that life exists elsewhere in our galaxy. Not likely - we are the lottery winners at least here in the Milky Way, maybe in the entire Universe.
There should’ve been millions of inhabited planets and so many radio voices it would sound like static. Instead - nothing. Something doesn’t add up...
There should’ve been millions of inhabited planets and so many radio voices it would sound like static. Instead - nothing. Something doesn’t add up...
I’m going with program loop that’s been running for billions of years..
If only three ants lived on planet earth, one in the Americas, one in Japan, and one in Africa, they would each be effectively alone.
We may have the same predicament in regard to other life in the universe. It may very well exist, but be so far away that it just doesn’t matter.
Stars are ~8 light years apart from each other. Unless physics allows us to increase the speed of a spacecraft by multiple magnitudes, we are looking at 36,000 years to cover the distance from just one star to another.
I have always though the infinite scope and age of the universe proves we are alone.
An infinite space with nearly infinite time has failed to generate even one being to reach out and communicate with us?
We are alone— with God.
That’s good enough for me.
I think the Planet Of Cow Anuses has found us.