Added on Tuesday 21 July 2009 01:24:21
by tdarnell
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OK, so there are two kinds of space fans, those who like my voice and those who don't. There's also a contingent that likes a more poetic and rhythmic flow to the script.
People never seem to factor time and a species longevity into the equation. The next nearest star had intelligent life on it 1000 years ago, the next 50 000 years ago, the next 2.3 billion years ago, etc.
I dont know how people dont believe there is god, when we look in space. I mean yes, we live on earth, The best creatures on earth, Humans.I know we cant see God, because then, this so called life wont be Life. I believe there is God. Universe didnt just got created for nothing. Humans especially in US, dont have any faith in God, because money is alot important here. As time goes by, our life gets closer to end, that when we will want to comeback and have just one more chance! ITS TOO LATE THEN
@falconeyedtiger
RE: 'I think civilizations ..go extinct before another one is at the level of space travel'
But you are not sure about this. A civilization that can travel through space and that can use up the interstellar matter for power supply of its ships (for you don't really believe they operate on fossil fuels) is virtually immortal.
Its footprints & handprints should be seen all over the Galaxy (even if it gets extinct as a result of a contradiction in the financial system for example).
@merlyn1900 Yeah, we need to move on. My idea was to terraform the moon, venus, mercury, mars and its moons, and moons of the distant ice giants. Sadly, this still wont be enough, soon there will be no more space in the universe for all the human beings, but that's going to be a long time in the future. We might not even make it past the next 1,000 years though lol.
@Halflifefan54 We don't have anything worth taking. It would be much easier to mine rocks in space as they have a greater abundance of minerals & metals. We ourselves are looking to Asteroids for mining within the next 100 years.
As a species we have out grown our home planet, we need to expand or die.
There is no space on earth. We are compressing ever greater populations into cities that can't expand out into Farm land.
Tbh I'd rather not find intelligent life. For all we know, they could be greedy and just want all of our resources. They'd kill us, take what we've accumulated, and move on. Maybe if we found a VERY young, but intelligent species, we could take them and have them grow up with us, but other then that, I don't trust aliens xD
There are likely way more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe. 100 billion is WHAT WE HAVE DETECTED. What the hell makes anyone assume we are seeing everything? We likely see only a VERY tiny percentage of what there is so if we can SEE 100 billion galaxies the actual number must be unimaginable.
How many species have existed on Earth during it's multibillion year existence? A HUGE number? Yet only ONE species has managed to achieve the ability to use radio communication and even then only for the past fifty years or so. We probably have a lot of life in the galaxy but only a VERY small percentage have intelligent technologically advanced beings sending out radio signals. We CANNOT rely on that for finding life.
The Fermi paradox is bullshit, there's nothing but evidence for the existence of intelligent life it can't be any other way. You can't have evidence of something not existing. As for the distance between stars this video clearly states that the average distance is 1 light year. then it conveniently limits your speed to 1 thousandths of this speed to proclaim it takes thousands of years to travel between stars. Nothing prohibits travel up to the speed of light.. so average time = just over 1 year
Perhaps....
"We are so arrogant, we're so conceited, that we say they must visit us... I don't think so."
"We could be in the middle of an intergalactic conversation, and we wouldn't even know"
-Michio Kaku
@falconeyedtiger An advanced civilization that is able to travel between stars and possibly galaxies would be so technologically advanced that they should very easily be able to thwart off any dangers that could possibly cause their species to go extinct (outside of galactic war). The reason why we haven't found life yet is because the universe is massive and we humans are nowhere close to obtaining the technology needed to fully explore and understand the universe.
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