It really surprised me as well. Lots of speculation and contradictory at times. |
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I don't understand how attempting to communicate with aliens would be bad. Is it more of a warning not to send signals into space because we might alert an Independence Day sort of "nomadic species" to our existence? So what happens when they do come? We just, ignore them and pretend they aren't there? That article confused me. |
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It really surprised me as well. Lots of speculation and contradictory at times. |
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Here's something he's not getting. Violent and oppressive cultures crumble apart from within. It's unlikely that such a culture would have the necessary cooperation to reach space age. And even if they do reach space age, they're aren't going to get very far before they collapse under their own weight. That's just nature. Even the swarm of locusts are destined to die. They don't simply continue moving on and on and on. No, they die! |
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Last edited by SnakeCharmer; 04-28-2010 at 08:07 AM.
It's still ridiculous. |
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Last edited by dajo; 04-28-2010 at 09:51 AM.
That's why we have cycles of war and peace. |
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That is true up until a certain point. When we go beyond nuclear technology, the benefit and risks increase substantially. If the technology and the weapon can kill the entire civilization with one event, there will be no cycle as the civilization is wiped out. If the species want to survive beyond this critical period, its wisdom would have to match the progress of technology. I see this as a natural fail-safe mechanism in terms of negative impact on foreign extra-planetary life. |
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. ~ Buddha
And we can't assume that every alien civilization has our same aggression and ignorance. We basically inherited our violent, status climbing, greedy natures from chimpanzees. Better if we were descended from Gorillas or Orangutans. |
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Of course, what kind of civilzation it would take or which would be possible is pretty speculative. |
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Last edited by dajo; 04-28-2010 at 04:34 PM.
Well, we didn't inherit anything from Chimps, but both humans and chimps got their similar aggression from a common ancestor. Grampa was a dick. |
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Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
Dream Journal Shaman Apprentice Chronicles
You are misinterpreting what I said. |
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But, talking about space travel - the Hubble Telescope, all the research |
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Last edited by dajo; 04-28-2010 at 09:12 PM.
True, but the bulk of the technology they use was developed during the cold war as a part of the space race. |
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The problem in general funding I think is that more money should be |
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Last edited by dajo; 04-28-2010 at 09:54 PM.
According to science, if something is not proven it does not exist. Aliens have not been proven, so they do not exist. |
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Who is to say we haven't encountered intelligent alien life yet? From what I've seen personally, it is a measly coin flip. |
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Last edited by ArcanumNoctis; 05-06-2010 at 03:41 AM.
Let me explain, when I mean space age, I mean the real deal. Not just flying to your moon but the capacity to leave your solar system all together. We humans haven't been able to do this. Were so caught up in strange ideas like "American" "Russian" "Chinese" and so on that we aren't really cooperating on the level we need to be to be a space age race. |
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In addition to my earlier post on Hawking |
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Last edited by dajo; 05-09-2010 at 03:58 AM.
We could be on Mars in 10 years (or under). |
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Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
Dream Journal Shaman Apprentice Chronicles
Mars is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. |
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Quoted from Dajo's link: |
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this. |
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Last edited by ninja9578; 05-19-2010 at 03:52 AM.
I think they would either study us, or destroy us. Most likely to gather resources from our planet? But I highly doubt we would poss a threat to the aliens. Their technology would be way way more advanced than ours. Unless of course they only send a tiny probe-like ship with only alien scientists. |
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