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re: NASA: Humans will prove we are not alone in the universe within 20 years.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:36 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:36 pm to Draconian Sanctions
I thought NASA's foremost mission was to improve relations with the Muslim world?
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:37 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
They may keep it secret though. The shitstorm that will ensue when we discover alien life will be the single greatest discovery in mankind's history. It would answer the ultimate question of "Are we alone?" and the most irrational and violent among us probably aren't going to like the answer. The Middle East and much of Africa and the Bible Belt will be a clusterfrick. There will be tons of irrational violence from the Middle East, and the results won't be pretty.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:37 pm to LesMiles BFF
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Even if there was an intelligent species sending out signals up until 100 years ago we wouldn't have known about it. So what if we are sending out radio signals and no one is hearing them either because they
That basically sums it up.
Of course we could get some signal and realize that it came from the other side of the galaxy...which would mean it covered 100,000 light years to get here. So whatever message we see is from the ancient past of a civilization that might not even exist anymore.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:42 pm to Salmon
quote:Haven't read the whole thread yet, so it may have been discussed, but I'd guess that the world's biggest religions likely have a response already set up for if/when this happens. They know the shitstorm that would follow so they'd be myopic not to have prepared for this at least superficially. Sort of like a religious war game.
but I am really curious how religious people will respond to the news
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:44 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
If life was found on another planet, how did it get there? Still doesn't answer the 'how was life created' question.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:44 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Well duh.
Anyone is dreaming thinking we're alone in the universe when there are billions upon trillions of other Earth like planets in the universe.
The universe is too big for us to be alone.
Anyone is dreaming thinking we're alone in the universe when there are billions upon trillions of other Earth like planets in the universe.
The universe is too big for us to be alone.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:45 pm to OMLandshark
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The Middle East and much of Africa and the Bible Belt will be a clusterfrick. There will be tons of irrational violence from the Middle East, and the results won't be pretty.
So pretty much nothing will change?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:47 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I knew this would happen.
Don't turn my thread into a religion vs. science debate assholes.
It's inevitable because we don't live in a vacuum. I mean, yeah the planet is in space and space is a vacuum, but you know what I'm saying.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:48 pm to junkfunky
20 years from now.
NASA: J/K.
NASA: J/K.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:48 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Knock yourselves out with the fermi paradox. Long read:
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If we’re neither rare nor early, Group 1 thinkers conclude that The Great Filter must be in our future. This would suggest that life regularly evolves to where we are, but that something prevents life from going much further and reaching high intelligence in almost all cases—and we’re unlikely to be an exception.
One possible future Great Filter is a regularly-occurring cataclysmic natural event, like the above-mentioned gamma-ray bursts, except they’re unfortunately not done yet and it’s just a matter of time before all life on Earth is suddenly wiped out by one. Another candidate is the possible inevitability that nearly all intelligent civilizations end up destroying themselves once a certain level of technology is reached.
This is why Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom says that “no news is good news.” The discovery of even simple life on Mars would be devastating, because it would cut out a number of potential Great Filters behind us. And if we were to find fossilized complex life on Mars, Bostrom says “it would be by far the worst news ever printed on a newspaper cover,” because it would mean The Great Filter is almost definitely ahead of us—ultimately dooming the species. Bostrom believes that when it comes to The Fermi Paradox, “the silence of the night sky is golden.”
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:50 pm to Y.A. Tittle
I'm down with drinking some alien beer with them.
And I bet alien drugs are some intense stuff
And I bet alien drugs are some intense stuff
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:50 pm to AngryBeavers
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It's better any intelligent life that can travel the vast distances of interstellar space not know we are here. Think Native Americans V. European Colonists.
I'm sick of this defeatist attitude. I'll fight these fricking aliens, then enslave their men for labor and their women for sex.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:52 pm to Sentrius
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Anyone is dreaming thinking we're alone in the universe when there are billions upon trillions of other Earth like planets in the universe.
But there is something to the point that the time & distance between civilizations could be so vast that we might as well be alone.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:55 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Yeah, what religion is contingent on there NOT being aliens?
Basically any religion or denomination that thinks having fun is a sin. Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Christ, etc would not believe it until the second the aliens landed on Earth. People deny global warming and evolution, do you really think people who don't believe in evolution would be cool with a species that has advanced millions of years ahead of us exists? No, they'd deny it since it's highly unlikely for quite some time that we'd be able to see them, just have compelling evidence that they exist.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:57 pm to DanTiger
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I believe there is life on other planets but I don't believe we will ever see it. NASA must be looking for funding.
Well, no shite they're looking for funding, since Obama has neutered them to be a mere weather prediction wing of the government.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:59 pm to LesMiles BFF
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Was it Carl Sagan that predicted that we would be squashed like ants if we ever encountered a race advanced enough to travel interstellar distances?
Actually, Sagan did the absolute opposite of that. He put maps to our planet in the Voyager probes, as well as numerous sounds and music from our planet, as well as algorithms that an advance species most certainly already discovered.
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 3:59 pm to OMLandshark
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Basically any religion or denomination that thinks having fun is a sin. Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Christ, etc would not believe it until the second the aliens landed on Earth. People deny global warming and evolution, do you really think people who don't believe in evolution would be cool with a species that has advanced millions of years ahead of us exists? No, they'd deny it since it's highly unlikely for quite some time that we'd be able to see them, just have compelling evidence that they exist.
So, you are complaining that a religious person would want definitive proof that they exist before they believed it?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 4:04 pm to Hawkeye95
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the researcher that talked to us says they are making advancements in being able to tell composition of atmospheres, and you can induce if plant life and/or animal life was present based off the composition of the atmosphere.
I don't see how they can really tell the composition of some atmosphere light years away by looking at it with a telescope. I get that they think they can in theory, but I don't really see how that could ever be proven
Posted on 7/15/14 at 4:08 pm to OMLandshark
I'll be the first to admit that Carl Sagan is infinitely smarter than I will ever be, but am I the only idiot here that thinks that was a terrible idea? I don't want us to be discovered until we can at least fight back, whatever is out there might be a whole lot like us.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 4:14 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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