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re: Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? SETI Tunes In to 'Oumuamua
Posted on 12/12/17 at 3:38 pm to AUCE05
Posted on 12/12/17 at 3:38 pm to AUCE05
quote:The great filter theory is fricking dumb
Somewhere when single cell organisms convert to multiple cell organisms lies the great filter. We might be the advanced aliens.
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Posted on 12/12/17 at 3:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
How did they get a picture of the rock from the opposite side of the sun?
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:20 pm to Kentucker
Let's be honest, A.I. created by man will quickly become a stoner kid on everyone's couch, teabagging nonstop in whatever FPS is turned on.
We're humans, we frick up everything.
We're humans, we frick up everything.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:24 pm to AUCE05
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We might be the advanced aliens.
Wouldn’t that be some shite??
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:50 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
But extremely plausible
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:53 pm to martiallaw
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Trying to make contact with a much smarter and advanced life form seems like a very very bad idea.
Thats what hawking has always said, wont end for us.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
shite. I can't wait
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:55 pm to AUCE05
quote:It's just as plausible that there are millions of intelligent civilizations that believe in an omnipotent power that sent his only son to die for their sins.
But extremely plausible
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:57 pm to martiallaw
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Trying to make contact with a much smarter and advanced life form seems like a very very bad idea.
Inviting a more advanced civilization to make contact? What could possibly go wrong?
....
Well, this guy might have some stories for you.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 5:00 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Maybe, but we can see a long way into space, and have yet to see any signs of life. If it were so abundant, there would be markers. The JWST should clearify things, and we should have some solid proof within the next decade.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 5:05 pm to AUCE05
I was under the impression that JWST's primary mission was to look further back to right after the big bang, not look for exoplanets?
Posted on 12/12/17 at 5:08 pm to DavidTheGnome
What's the point of listening to space rocks when you will just hears it swishing through the air? 
Posted on 12/12/17 at 7:41 pm to ZappBrannigan
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We're humans, we frick up everything.
Yeah, the Star Trek dream will never happen.
Thats sad.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 9:23 pm to ZappBrannigan
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Let's be honest, A.I. created by man will quickly become a stoner kid on everyone's couch, teabagging nonstop in whatever FPS is turned on.
AI is being created by man but ASI, artificial super intelligence, will be created by AI. Once we hand over the task of designing the nuances of AI to the machines, ASI will very rapidly evolve. It might not even take a year to go from AI to ASI.
Because of its self design, ASI will not resemble current human thinking abilities. It will be at the next level. Just as modern humans shot ahead of other human species some 60,000 years ago by becoming creative and fully conscious, ASI will take its superior cognitive skills into the Universe.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 9:30 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I was under the impression that JWST's primary mission was to look further back to right after the big bang, not look for exoplanets?
LINK
Yes, that's its primary mission but it and every other telescope on earth are and will be on standby for exploring the possibilities of life on exoplanets. Exoplanets are the hottest topic, by far, for almost every scientist doing even the remotest work in astrophysics and astrobiology.
JWST will be an infrared telescope and,
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Webb will tell us more about the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, and perhaps even find the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. In addition to other planetary systems, Webb will also study objects within our own Solar System.
This post was edited on 12/12/17 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:07 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I was under the impression that JWST's primary mission was to look further back to right after the big bang, not look for exoplanets?
That’s right.
Edit actually I’m wrong
Webb And Exoplanets
One of the main uses of the James Webb Space Telescope will be to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, to search for the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. But Webb is an infrared telescope. How is this good for studying exoplanets?
One method Webb will use for studying exoplanets is the transit method, which means it will look for dimming of the light from a star as its planet passes between us and the star. (Astronomers call this a "transit".) Collaboration with ground-based telescopes can help us measure the mass of the planets, via the radial velocity technique (i.e., measuring the stellar wobble produced by the gravitational tug of a planet), and then Webb will do spectroscopy of the planet's atmosphere.
Webb will also carry coronagraphs to enable direct imaging of exoplanets near bright stars. The image of an exoplanet would just be a spot, not a grand panorama, but by studying that spot, we can learn a great deal about it. That includes its color, differences between winter and summer, vegetation, rotation, weather...How is this done? The answer again is spectroscopy.
This post was edited on 12/12/17 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
So is it not in orbit? not even one outside or our solar system? The fact an object can have an A to B trajectory in space kinda blows my mind.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:45 pm to DavidTheGnome
We need a moon base where we can put lots of different types of telescopes.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:24 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Why on the moon? Just park them at a Lagrange point and save a bunch of money.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:29 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Why on the moon?
1. They’d be easier to maintain/upgrade
2. Moonbases are fricking cool
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