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Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:50 am to KSGamecock
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Also, for the record, when you try to figure out what led to the fall of the American Empire the answer is BARAK frickING OBAMA.
FIFY.
Thank me later.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:06 am to dawgsjw
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Hell the dinosaurs ruled this planet longer than homo's have been here.
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:51 am to Stacked
It almost doesn't matter if there is life out there or not because the universe is so vast, that we might as well be alone. Hell, we could receive a signal from another civilation and that civilation could already be extinct.
It all makes you want to say "Screw this...I want to go sit on a beach instead of spending years in an office."
It all makes you want to say "Screw this...I want to go sit on a beach instead of spending years in an office."
Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:55 am to FairhopeTider
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Hell, we could receive a signal from another civilization and that civilization could already be extinct.
Whether extinct or not, highly likely the original sender is dead of old age, possibly long ago. depending on life spans of other species.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 12:00 pm to Pavoloco83
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Whether extinct or not, highly likely the original sender is dead of old age, possibly long ago. depending on life spans of other species.
Not necessarily.
(Static.....transmission....alien stuff... static)
Scientist: sir... It seems.... It's coming from inside the house!!!
Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:20 pm to dawgsjw
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There is life on Earth, so there is other life out there too. It would be a very simplistic view to think that there is only life on Earth. Hell the dinosaurs ruled this planet longer than homo's have been here.
Let's follow this train of thought, then.
1. The Sun is a typical star, and relatively young. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older.
2. Almost surely, some of these stars will have Earth-like planets.
3. Assuming the Earth is typical, some of these planets may develop intelligent life.
4. Some of these civilizations may develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now (such as the 100 Year Starship).
5. Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in a few tens of millions of years.
According to this line of thinking, the Earth should already have been colonized, or at least visited.
But no convincing evidence of this exists. Furthermore, no confirmed signs of intelligence elsewhere have yet been spotted in our galaxy or elsewhere in the observable universe.
Where is everybody?
This keeps me up at night. The silence from the stars is overwhelming. Suffocating. The longer I think about it, the more horrifying it gets. Are we alone?
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:23 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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This keeps me up at night. The silence from the stars is overwhelming. Suffocating. The longer I think about it, the more horrifying it gets. Are we alone?
You're never alone, when you're with Magma
Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:23 pm to Gradual_Stroke
Given the distances involved, the limitations of the laws of physics and the conditions and time required to allow for the development of intelligent life it could be possible that civilizations of sentient beings can rise, prosper and fall to extinction without ever contacting one another.
Either that or Aliens have been in contact with Humans all along but we've never known it because of the Illuminati.
Either that or Aliens have been in contact with Humans all along but we've never known it because of the Illuminati.
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:26 pm to KSGamecock
But shouldn't we be bombarded with their signals? Floating relics of their space-craft or space-trash? Something? Anything? We haven't even discovered micro-organisms from outside of Earth, let alone complex multicellular spacemen.
It's eerie.
It's eerie.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:27 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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You're never alone, when you're with Magma
I'm out of the loop on the Magma jokes. Can you fill a brotha in?
Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:33 pm to Gradual_Stroke
1. The universe is really really big. It's unlikely, no matter how successful the species, that we'd encounter tons of their space junk this close to us.
2. We've only been paying attention for the last 50 or so years. A really short span given the scale of space-time. It's just a snapshot really. Would you say that because you woke up briefly at 3AM and didn't hear any other human for a five second span that therefore humanity must have gone extinct? No.
3. We may be bombarded by their signals but we haven't developed far enough to realize it. We could be like the inhabitants of some small undiscovered pacific archipelago. We communicate with neighboring tribes via smoke signals but assume no one else exists outside because we never see any really huge smoke signals on the horizon...completely oblivious to the radio broadcasts that bounce around and through us or the satellites floating above.
That said we have found some weird stuff even in the short time we've been paying attention Wow! Signal
2. We've only been paying attention for the last 50 or so years. A really short span given the scale of space-time. It's just a snapshot really. Would you say that because you woke up briefly at 3AM and didn't hear any other human for a five second span that therefore humanity must have gone extinct? No.
3. We may be bombarded by their signals but we haven't developed far enough to realize it. We could be like the inhabitants of some small undiscovered pacific archipelago. We communicate with neighboring tribes via smoke signals but assume no one else exists outside because we never see any really huge smoke signals on the horizon...completely oblivious to the radio broadcasts that bounce around and through us or the satellites floating above.
That said we have found some weird stuff even in the short time we've been paying attention Wow! Signal
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:29 pm to Stacked
I'm all for exploration and checking things out, but I don't get the "the universe is so big, there MUST be other civilizations out there" thing. If absolutely true (and I lean towards "yeah, probably"), so what? There's no technology even imaginable at present that will take humans to another inhabited planet in a human lifespan (or 2 or 3 or a bunch). If we can't visit them or even trade radio signals within a lifetime, what difference does it make if they're there or not?
Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:32 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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I'm out of the loop on the Magma jokes. Can you fill a brotha in?
Those "in" the loop will claim they can. I call BS. They're just being clever in their joke-among-nerds way.
But in case I'm wrong, Hail Magma.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:36 pm to finestfirst79
The thing is everybody only looks at half the argument when saying "do you really think there isn't life in the huge universe".
Sure there are tons if stars and planets, but what are the odds of the building blocks of life being placed in the same place in the right order under the proper conditions without some cosmic disaster fricking everything up.
We also would have to agree on what we are talking about when we say "life", what are we looking for. I am sure life exists in the form of simple organisms somewhere out there, I think intelligent probably not 40/60
- magma is a bitch that likes a big dick
Sure there are tons if stars and planets, but what are the odds of the building blocks of life being placed in the same place in the right order under the proper conditions without some cosmic disaster fricking everything up.
We also would have to agree on what we are talking about when we say "life", what are we looking for. I am sure life exists in the form of simple organisms somewhere out there, I think intelligent probably not 40/60
- magma is a bitch that likes a big dick
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:38 pm to Stacked
I read somewhere that th universe has something like 100 billion galaxies. And each one has -- on average -- something like 100 billion stars.
So smoke on that one for a while.
So smoke on that one for a while.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:41 pm to Stacked
ccalling bullshite on the fitting all the planets between here and the moon
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:46 pm to Gradual_Stroke
gradual-stroke...
I dont believe in that line of thinking. I think the universe is thumping with life, but I dont like absolutes, so I think it is wrong to say that
Also I think there is some proof that aliens have visited Earth. Here is a pic of an Egyptian hyroglific that shows a helicopter and plane.
There are also mentions of aliens in many different civilizations, and the bible mentions of alien encounters. Also there are astronauts who talk about aliens. And I'm sure the gov't knows more than they are telling.
I dont believe in that line of thinking. I think the universe is thumping with life, but I dont like absolutes, so I think it is wrong to say that
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5. Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in a few tens of millions of years.
Also I think there is some proof that aliens have visited Earth. Here is a pic of an Egyptian hyroglific that shows a helicopter and plane.
There are also mentions of aliens in many different civilizations, and the bible mentions of alien encounters. Also there are astronauts who talk about aliens. And I'm sure the gov't knows more than they are telling.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:20 pm to K9
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ccalling bullshite on the fitting all the planets between here and the moon
Well you'd be wrong. So there's that.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:45 pm to dawgsjw
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the galaxy can be completely colonized in a few tens of millions of years.
So 500 to some multiple of 500 times the existence of Homo sapiens. Oooh... I'm getting tingly all over.
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