Posted on 12/19/2017 10:26:04 AM PST by JP1201
My point is that the statement that “the universe is so large, we must not be alone” is incompatible with the statement that “but there is no way that these aliens could get here.” One person cannot logically hold both these opinions.
The engines are broken!!
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I would like some sites about Mars to check out.
Could you please provide some, I love checking out other planets
If their civilizations are that old, then wouldn’t it be very likely that they, too, developed advanced AI which wiped them out? Thus, any visitors would be purely AI/Robotic, i.e., the “new” life form that replaced their wetware.
My dad was in his teens in the 1930’s. There was an old man who lived in his neighborhood who everyone thought was a kook. I don’t remember all the details as my dad told me many, years ago or the man’s name (so I’ll call him “Doc”), but the guy was a bit eccentric. Sort of like Doc from Back to the Future - OK not quite that eccentric but he was a retired engineer of some sort and an amateur inventor and owned a pretty big telescope. But people in the neighborhood thought he was downright strange.
My dad started doing yard work and other chores for him to earn some money (this was during the Depression) and they became friends. My dad told me he introduced my dad to the writings of Jules Vern and H.G. Wells as well as some serious scientific writings of the time. My dad also told me that the old man told him that while he’d never live to see it, my dad and his children would – and that was that one day Americans would send a rocket up into space, land a craft and walk on the Moon and then return safely back to Earth. Saying these sorts of things in the 1930’s is what got him the reputation for being a kook. But my dad believed him. The old guy died just before Pearl Harbor.
My dad was a huge fan and follower of the American space program and I remember as a kid, watching all the coverage on TV with him including on July 20, 1969. When Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. My dad, who wasn’t a big liquor drinker, went to a cabinet, unlocked it and pulled out a dusty bottle of really good whiskey he’d been saving for who knows how long. He poured a glass and raised at toast, to the USA and our astronauts and to “Doc”, saying “wherever you are Doc, I hope you are seeing this”. :)
Thing of it is, we're not really creating the "aliens," we're just giving them a way to come into our realm.
Then, too, we may be alone. How much does this guy get paid to make such statements?
If it’s expanding then it had to be.
You obviously weren’t a fellow participant in the recent thread on the age of the earth.
Not being argumentative, just stating that there are those here who find your statement blasphemous and I lump them in with the level of intellect of those prosecuting “climate deniers”...without regard to their ignorance re the hypocrisy.
It begins. Someday that display of aliens from MIB may prove to be true.
It would.give a whole new meaning to the term “deep state” and cause for concern about what our $20 trillion debt has truly been financing.
Part /s, part serious.
Thank you.
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Hottest fad in the 30th Century!
No, The time scale of Universe expansion (~15 Billion years) is not the same time scale of our solar systems development and the life of our planet (<5 Billion years). And the largest rate of expansion was in the initial bang. Mars has never been where the Earth is with respect to the Sun, at least not while the planets were more than just space dust.
I have come to the same conclusion. The precise conditions required to sustain life make it seem that intelligent life may be fairly rare.
But even if it were not so rare you would still need the civilizations to exist at the same point in their technological progress so both could communicate with each other ... and located relatively close to one another. There is not much point in communication between galaxies if it takes 2.5 million years to send a message ... or even between stars on opposite sides of the Milky Way. There could have been hundreds of intelligent civilizations in our section of the Milky Way but they may not exist any more.
Thus you could have a situation where there have been millions of intelligent civilizations that have existed but few or none of them exist right now relatively close to us.
That is a REALLY cool story! My grandmother was born in the 1880’s on a remote farm in Norway. No electricity, no cars, etc. She came to America by herself, not knowing anybody at the age of 16. She always said that she lived in the most unbelievable time of all history. She died in 1984 - but got to see all of that amazing progress - including man on the moon.
Of course she died too early to see any of the personal benefits of the computer age.
“Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”
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