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So, no pictures of aliens on an alien thread.
If there are aliens, what will they look like?
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I thought that Vulcan was pretty darned nice- ER, good.
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Probably like this...
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At 10% percent of C, it would take 45 years to send something to Alpha Centuria, and Proxima b, and what it found, using laser accelerated micro devices would take 45 years to get there and just over 4.5 years to get a signal back to us. If we could read it, which would take years to decipher. And to read it, one would need a dedicated receiving system the size of half the planet. And there is no way to slow down the probe from 10% of C. And no way to get any meaningful info from a fly by that fast. We don't have the ability to slow it down.
They, if there are aliens, so far, Poxima b are not sending any signals we see though, and that planet had 90 years or so, to pick up signals from us and attempt a return signal to us if there was intelligent life. They could have called back. They didn't.
As one astronomer put it, we are expecting some sort of pizza parlor in space, with every one wearing funny hats.
The next solar system is much further away. Barnard's Star, As are all the others.... very, very far away still at only 6 light years away. Exhaust those as exoplanets and things get very much further away again.
In the way we view physics, communication of other worlds that may have intellectual life is near impossible. They could be out there. But the distances are so extreme, and the time involved is so vast, that if C is the speed limit, it doesn't matter.
If there is other intelligent life out there, they are also islands of intelligent life.
There in is the problem. One can not sell a book telling people the terrible reality of it.
With out some sort of sci-fi theatrical convention, we have no meaningful method of communication with Aliens.
Statistically, they are there in the vastness of the universe. Just not in this Milky Way Galaxy.
Realistically, they are not: And left to our imaginations to make up fantastic stuff.
And if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, does it make a sound. If you are close enough for it, it makes a sound...... too distant, it does not make a sound.
If you are too far away, you can't hear it cause it took 2 million years to hear it, at which point what the hell was the message: A two million year old message.
And once decoded, using everything we, using Supercomputers, in an adjoined effort around the world, found it was some long distant teenager that was expressing teenage angst.
They, if there are aliens, so far, Poxima b are not sending any signals we see though, and that planet had 90 years or so, to pick up signals from us and attempt a return signal to us if there was intelligent life. They could have called back. They didn't.
As one astronomer put it, we are expecting some sort of pizza parlor in space, with every one wearing funny hats.
The next solar system is much further away. Barnard's Star, As are all the others.... very, very far away still at only 6 light years away. Exhaust those as exoplanets and things get very much further away again.
In the way we view physics, communication of other worlds that may have intellectual life is near impossible. They could be out there. But the distances are so extreme, and the time involved is so vast, that if C is the speed limit, it doesn't matter.
If there is other intelligent life out there, they are also islands of intelligent life.
There in is the problem. One can not sell a book telling people the terrible reality of it.
With out some sort of sci-fi theatrical convention, we have no meaningful method of communication with Aliens.
Statistically, they are there in the vastness of the universe. Just not in this Milky Way Galaxy.
Realistically, they are not: And left to our imaginations to make up fantastic stuff.
And if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, does it make a sound. If you are close enough for it, it makes a sound...... too distant, it does not make a sound.
If you are too far away, you can't hear it cause it took 2 million years to hear it, at which point what the hell was the message: A two million year old message.
And once decoded, using everything we, using Supercomputers, in an adjoined effort around the world, found it was some long distant teenager that was expressing teenage angst.
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Imagine taking a new silver dollar and flipping it in the air and it landing on a concrete driveway and landing on heads. Then imagine doing that 500 more times and it landing on heads every time. Now if you don't believe that is possible, how likely will it be that long chain amino acids will form it the right way and result in a protein molecule?
"“The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it…It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” (Hoyle, 1984, p. 148)."
Now how about several trillion of theses organizing themselves into a sentient being capable of interstellar travel.
Make the argument of the boys in "Stand By Me" about whether Superman could beat up Mighty Mouse seem rational and logical.
"“The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it…It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” (Hoyle, 1984, p. 148)."
Now how about several trillion of theses organizing themselves into a sentient being capable of interstellar travel.
Make the argument of the boys in "Stand By Me" about whether Superman could beat up Mighty Mouse seem rational and logical.
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How the chemistry of life came about, is a question that is easily answered by a divine being that has intention. Science doesn't work that way. Science has given every one a better life than non-science. Its given every one a better life then superstition. And it was a hard fight. Aliens are just a part of the last part of this fight, that there are no extraterestial angels out there. We are our own angels.
And to not look for something else, as an extraterrestial savor,... is the better part of humanity. Then, you have to submit ideas that make sense.
And to not look for something else, as an extraterrestial savor,... is the better part of humanity. Then, you have to submit ideas that make sense.
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I thought religion either pro or anti was verboten.
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Savor?? Did u mean savior? Who said anything about looking for that?