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Anybody: What do you think about extra-terrestrials?
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Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
We don't have enough terrestrials as it is, much less any extra ones.
Smoke
Done here.
We got plenty, and mostly the wrong kind. We could do with more bears and eagles, and fewer beetles, if you ask me.
silvermoon383
Well-Known Member
One thing to remember, the thing that would tip aliens off that there is intelligent life on Earth is a radio signal. We've only been broadcasting radio signals for around 100 years, so the area of space where we are detectable is a sphere approx. 200 light years across, which is a very small section of the galaxy. To top that off, the signal degrades the farther out you go (just like light gets dimmer the farther from the source you are), so the better chance you have of picking it up is to be closer to Earth.
To put it simply, to find a planet with intelligent life is worse than finding a needle in a haystack, even if you had FTL capabilities.
To put it simply, to find a planet with intelligent life is worse than finding a needle in a haystack, even if you had FTL capabilities.
Helio
Member
your government know that ''aliens'' are spirits, since they are ''spiritual'' themselves
these ''aliens'' do not contact just anyone, there is a bigger picture to this story wich they do not
have been able to understand yet.
Spirits do not have intentions to contact a regular man and say hello, and when they do..
its intentional and part of that grander scheme.
these ''aliens'' do not contact just anyone, there is a bigger picture to this story wich they do not
have been able to understand yet.
Spirits do not have intentions to contact a regular man and say hello, and when they do..
its intentional and part of that grander scheme.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
MW0082
Jesus 4 Profit.... =)~
I took an astronomy class a couple semesters ago, it was very interesting. The odds are there has to be some intelligent life form out there. It is a 1 in a million chance for life to form, but there are billions of galaxys out there. Who knows what they are like or how they have developed on their conditions.
As far as visiting, this is more unlikely. Considering we can see up to about 10 billion light years away. No life yet, so if it is out there it would have to find a way to break the speed of light to travel to us.
As far as visiting, this is more unlikely. Considering we can see up to about 10 billion light years away. No life yet, so if it is out there it would have to find a way to break the speed of light to travel to us.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
This seems to be an extremely generous probability. I wonder how it was calculated.
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
A clone is the real thing. (assuming you haven't fiddled with the DNA)
And radio signals aren't detectable beyond a light-year or so, due to the inverse cube relationship. This would mean that, as far as we can tell, there could be aliens sitting on Alpha Centuari, but we have no way of finding them without sending a probe there.
MW0082
Jesus 4 Profit.... =)~
I don't think it was spot on, maybe there is an actual calculation. I was simply saying it is rare, but we have an abundance of galaxies. So logically another perfect scenario for life to form and grow has to be out there...... My professor is the one who said that one in a million, so I wasn't being accurate...
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
It's not as real as going back in time and getting an original.
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
I think its the material of Sci Fi. and should be out of a serious public debate. and definitely out of NGC, History channel etc, which I expected to produce decent programs about biology, archaeology, history and astronomy.
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Breathe
Hostis humani generis
The ones I meant to tick are:
Extra-terrestrials definitely exist.
Extra-terrestials probably exist.
We haven't made contact yet, but we will.
Most extra-terrestrials are friendly ones, like lunamoth.
For some reason, my dad's laptop (which I'm on at the moment as I'm visiting for a few hours) ticks every box by default when given the option.
By "definitely" and "probably", I mean "primitive" (definitely) and "civilized possibly to a standard equal to or above our own" (probably).
Extra-terrestrials definitely exist.
Extra-terrestials probably exist.
We haven't made contact yet, but we will.
Most extra-terrestrials are friendly ones, like lunamoth.
For some reason, my dad's laptop (which I'm on at the moment as I'm visiting for a few hours) ticks every box by default when given the option.
By "definitely" and "probably", I mean "primitive" (definitely) and "civilized possibly to a standard equal to or above our own" (probably).
dogsgod
Well-Known Member
I can't imagine that of all the stars and solar systems that make up our galaxy, all but ours are sterile. However, the distance between stars is so great that we are not likely to make any kind of contact with whatever life forms may exist out there.
Either life forms in our galaxy are a rare occurrence, or the galaxy is teaming with life, or somewhere in between.
Either life forms in our galaxy are a rare occurrence, or the galaxy is teaming with life, or somewhere in between.
There might be ET's. I like to keep an open mind on the subject, but I don't think they ever visited earth and I doubt they ever will.