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Bateluer

Bateluer

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Need moar star gates!
 
This is my argument when people say "If there is intelligent life out there, we would have detected them by now!"

The general population has no IDEA how huge our galaxy, let alone our universe, is in reality. Shows like Star Trek and Star Wars make interstellar travel feel like a boat ride, but in reality it's far from the truth.
 
Fritzo said:
This is my argument when people say "If there is intelligent life out there, we would have detected them by now!"

The general population has no IDEA how huge our galaxy, let alone our universe, is in reality. Shows like Star Trek and Star Wars make interstellar travel feel like a boat ride, but in reality it's far from the truth.
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Yep... assuming we even detect intelligent life, any transmission we receive will likely be from thousands of years ago.

I almost guarantee intelligent life is out there, but we'll never detect it, that is unless we somehow develop FTL travel.
 
Fritzo said:
This is my argument when people say "If there is intelligent life out there, we would have detected them by now!"

The general population has no IDEA how huge our galaxy, let alone our universe, is in reality. Shows like Star Trek and Star Wars make interstellar travel feel like a boat ride, but in reality it's far from the truth.
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Agreed. Star Trek at least makes things a little more realistic, the galaxy is very big. Recall that it was going to take Voyager 75 years to travel back from the edge of the Delta quadrant to the nearest edge of the Alpha quadrant.

Stargate at least has near instant wormholes between gates, 1.3 seconds for in-galaxy travel.
 
actually that's more than i thought it would be. go humans! eventually, all aliens in the milky way will be able to enjoy to our amazing broadcast radio and network tv
 
i sometimes wonder how cool it would have been to have been part of a solar system/star that formed much later in the history of the universe...
 
Inspector Jihad said:
actually that's more than i thought it would be. go humans! eventually, all aliens in the milky way will be able to enjoy to our amazing broadcast radio and network tv
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I'm sure Comcast will have someone in a ship to cut them off for non-payment. Worst customer service in the universe!
 
Inspector Jihad said:
actually that's more than i thought it would be. go humans! eventually, all aliens in the milky way will be able to enjoy to our amazing broadcast radio and network tv
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You're reading it wrong, I think. The square isn't the area. The TINY BLUE DOT WITHIN THE SQUARE is a sphere, 200 light years in diameter, which represents the reach of our earliest radio broadcasts.

As some have said, background radiation completely drowns out our radio transmissions at half of 1 light year, so it doesn't even matter how far that radio transmission has traveled.
 
And that pic is just of our galaxy. There are over 100 BILLION other galaxies out there. Personally, I think the math dictates that there is other life in the universe.
 
fatpat268 said:
Maybe so... but it'd be unlikely that we could detect such communications.
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yep. I'll quote a favorite piece from one of my favorite books - Sphere, by Michael Crichton

“Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let’s explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you. And your last thought would be: This alien device was obviously made to test bacterial intelligence and to kill us if we make a false step.
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“Now, that would be correct from the standpoint of the dying bacterium. But that wouldn’t be correct at all from the standpoint of the beings who made the satellite. From our point of view, the communications satellite has nothing to do with intelligent bacteria. We don’t even know that there are intelligent bacteria out there. We’re just trying to communicate, and we’ve made what we consider a quite ordinary device to do it.”
“You mean the sphere might not be a message or a trophy or a trap at all?”
“That’s right,” Harry said. “The sphere may have nothing to do with the search for other life forms, or testing life, as we might imagine those activities to occur. It may be an accident that the sphere causes such profound changes in us.”
“But why would someone build such a machine?” Norman said.
“That’s the same question an intelligent bacterium would ask about a communications satellite: Why would anyone build such a thing?”
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Even if we come across some other intelligent lifeform, or some sort of alien communication, we will most likely not be even aware of it, or might interpret it completely differently than intended by the aliens

 
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Aharami said:


yep. I'll quote a favorite piece from one of my favorite books - Sphere, by Michael Crichton


Even if we come across some other intelligent lifeform, or some sort of alien communication, we will most likely not be even aware of it, or might interpret it completely differently than intended by the aliens
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Nope, the laws of this universe are the same throughout expect variations for in the constants.

Any standard electro magnetic, chemical and biological device can be understood as a system to conduct work, information and electricity.

The process should take decades or centuries, but might lead to exponential scientific growth for any intelligible civilization.
 
Take it from me, folks. The chances of advanced alien life in our universe is very low.

In the grand scheme of things, Usually only one master santient species exists in a universe. This explanation works in context of evolution while considering a topdown universe.

For another to exist is very remote. There are aliens in other kinds of universes, of course.
 
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