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I guess you have never heard of NASA then, have you?
There is a reason why Huntsville, AL is called Rocket City.
There is also at least one company that makes stuff for Nuclear Power plants here. They have parts in plants all over the world.
Sure, once you get out of the large cities, it is pretty much red-necks and hicks, but that it not all there is.
Why would they be using slower than light communications? They're assuming that aliens are at the same level of technology as us. They are more likely much less developed or much more developed.
According to who? The 'trinity' is never mentioned in the bible, it was made up by the early Christians. Most of the old testament is borrowed from other cultures. Genesis is a retelling of the Babylonian creation myths, the story of Noah is a retelling of part of the epic of Gilgamesh, and so on. It's so haphazardly thrown together that the bible can't even keep it's own story straight. Genesis 1 has the gods creating animals, then the humans in their image. Genesis 2 has the gods creating Adam, then the animals, then Eve from Adam's rib.
The authors of the bible didn't seem to be aware of distant cultures in China and the Americas, why should we even be thinking about the bible in a discussion about extraterrestrial life?
The technologic progression has been so fast that it can well be the same elsewhere. And one thing is for sure - if we one day start to get alien messages, we better be prepared to the teeth on first encounter. It may get ugly if and when we're technologically disadvantaged if meeting the aliens on our home soil and not vice versa.
We have yet to discover any extra terrestrial life let alone intelligent. And while I have not been following it I don't think we have even found any meaningful sign of the possibility of such life intelligent or otherwise.
You do know that the Bible doesn't always have things in order, right?
Given the galactic distances if some other planet like earth would have created life and intelligent life around the same time like we did, it would take around 100 years still before their first radio transmissions would start to reach us. So it's completely possible that the sky is filled with alien messaging, we're just too far to hear them yet.
The technologic progression has been so fast that it can well be the same elsewhere. And one thing is for sure - if we one day start to get alien messages, we better be prepared to the teeth on first encounter. It may get ugly if and when we're technologically disadvantaged if meeting the aliens on our home soil and not vice versa.
Also, I welcome our new Protoss rulers.
Don't we have to break through the light speed barrier first before 'first contact'?
And what makes you think it won't be the Zerg
It is almost guaranteed that if they find us, we are getting enslaved. They may not have bad intentions but since they found us first, it is likely that they will posses a much greater technology than we do, probably smarter than us as well.
I mean look at pets, dogs cats.... People who own dogs and cats treat them very well, they are good people and they love their pets but the dogs and cats are still owned by their owner, they are almost prisoners/slaves who have no right to be free, vote, have families etc....
So best case scenarios we are going to be house pets.....
Not necessarily ... it likely depends on how prevalent inhabitable planets are and how the mechanism of evolution works on other worlds (we only have our own planet as a reference so far)
If habitable planets are plentiful then there would be little competition for resources and thus no need to eliminate that competition through hostile means ... if they are scarce then the chances of life being anywhere remotely close to us are so rare that we might never encounter another life form
On our planet, evolution has been a dog eat dog process that has created violent tenancies in us and other species ... that has shaped much of our thinking and reactions ... it is quite possible that on other planets the natural selection process isn't nearly so violent or that herbivorous species achieve dominance (which would make them less hostile)
Personally I will hope for the version of aliens proposed by the quote from Contact, "You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other." ... also, as Carl Sagan proposed in the first Cosmos series, when two cultures meet for the first time the chances of them being equals are highly unlikely ... since a war would be one sided in that situation he proposed that other civilizations would interact peacefully with each other
So are you saying that the Spanish were running out of living space and resources when they annihilated the indigenous population of America?
First thing is we would have to find a way to get past Mars which is only possible by a nuclear powered spaceship.
Second, of the handful of goldielocks planets that have been discovered they are so far away you could not get there in a lifetime.
Let's start by trying to land/explore in our own neck of the woods first.
Finding doesn't mean we have to physically go there ourselves.
We already have signals and things that extend far beyond our own solar system.
We are more likely to receive or have our own signals received before we actually physically "run into" some kind of other intelligent life.
it is quite possible that on other planets the natural selection process isn't nearly so violent or that herbivorous species achieve dominance (which would make them less hostile)
How can people believe in all its infiniteness that there isn't other life in the universe..?
How can people believe in all its infiniteness that there isn't other life in the universe..?
Other than saying Hey we are here I don't see much of a meaningful dialog occurring though if we have to wait 200 years for a reply (100 years for our answer and 100 years for theirs if we are 100 light years apart) ... if we are 1000 or 10000 the situation gets much worse ... considering we are towards the far edge of a galaxy 100,000 light years in diameter it might be quite some while before someone heard us and was able to respond (assuming they even cared to do so)
Because the chances of intelligent life were statistically impossible to begin with so why would you expect something with a statistical impossibility to happen more than once?
Apparently no one read the article.
The guy in the article is saying within the next 20 years we will find intelligent life in our own solar system. By intelligent life he is saying life that has some type of intelligence, just like a dog has intelligence. He is assuming if there is funding and we can do real exploration of some of the moons in our solar system where there is water, we will find some type of life that exhibits some type of intelligence.
I personally don't know if there is or if it can be done in 20 years, but he isn't' saying we're going to find aliens flying spaceships on worlds that are hundreds of light years away. He is only talking about some type of living life in our solar system that's not on Earth.
Why would they be using slower than light communications? They're assuming that aliens are at the same level of technology as us. They are more likely much less developed or much more developed.
We already have.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and we've been broadcasting those for over 100 years now. So we have already "announced" ourselves, so to speak, and tv waves aren't that far behind them.
First contact would likely come from some sort of communication as that, rather then the usual happenstance "meeting" physically or vice versa.
The thing is we can only listen to so much of the sky at once.
Why are we not pointing optical receivers at space instead of RF dishes?
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You mean every single telescope in the IR, visible, X-ray, and gamma ray bands?