re: Do you believe in the Fermi Paradox: The Great Filter?

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Are you saying Indians are not homo sapiens

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Gotcha. Then tell that to the buffalo (almost).

We are on this planet to learn. Time & space is only relevant on Earth. The pryamids were built with technology we can’t even comprehend right now....our consciousness rises and falls throughout history. We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift right now so who knows what the hell is going to happen in the next 50 years.

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Gotcha. Then tell that to the buffalo (almost).

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So yes, humans do make other species go to or near extinction. But the theory I was arguing against was suggesting this behavior as a self- preservation measure. Humans did not overhunt buffalo to prevent buffalo from rising up and ending humanity.

space is too big. the chance of meeting another intelligent lifeform is probably akin to two blindfolded people across each other throwing a small marble and those marbles colliding in mid air.

Not only is space big, time is too. an intelligent lifeform might be billions or trillions of years older

Humans engineered with cold blooded reptilian physiology and a 10,000 year life span will be required if our space travel will depend on firing rockets for propulsion.

This will make hibernation during long spans of time necessary and the human form is not suitable for this.

Copper or silver ion propulsion systems will be a major key.

I don’t think we assume any one of those things.

But we have to start somewhere. What you’re describing as inflexible assumptions are simply our starting points.

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need Jesus you name calling .

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so you don't have to think outside your lair.

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Jeebus people. 
The aliens already come and go as they see fit. 

They mostly jump through ship-generated mini worm holes, relatively short but meaningful distances and gtfo in rapid fire succession as they travel from point A to point B. Mostly to keep on the course with fast re-calibration then off to the the next jump point. 

The vast scientific and pure rationality required to build these craft and travel the galaxy tends to make them moral explorers vs. conquerors. 

We’ll be fine.

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glad to hear it.

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The fact that 2 cars can theoretically hit head-on but go right through each other without touching

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At the quantum level the space between the sub-atomic particles that make up matter is enormous compared to the particles themselves so theoretically the particles making up two cars could pass each other in opposite directions without the particles colliding.

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I’d say you’re in the right church, but you’re sitting at the wrong pew.

At the atomic level atoms are mostly empty space (more on that in a bit). If you were to expand an atomic nuclei to the size of a quarter, then the elections would be miles away from the quarter. But the “binding forces” prevent us from passing through walls or anything like that.



Quantum physics has more to do with the behavior of the fundamental particles and how they interact with each other. The idea that something can pass through something else comes from quantum tunneling- to understand how that works you need to understand that these fundamentals have a wave-like component. So think of an electron not as a particular object in space, but rather a “wave of energy.” And just like waves in the ocean, they don’t exist at one point, but rather spread out. Once we start talking about spaces smaller than the width of that wave, then tunneling starts to occur... but this only happens on the extremely small scale like in microprocessors where we’re concerned with the flow of electrons. At larger scales the “normal” forces of physics take over.

As an example of things passing through other things - Neutrinos actually have such little “mass” that their “wave” is incredibly small even compared to subatomic particles. They are very real particles but they interact with other particles so little that you have about 100 trillion passing through your body every second, but they never “touch” the atoms that make up our body.


That’s my best quasi-drunk explanation in layman’s terms.


If you really want to blow your mind, think about how in even empty space, the quantum world is constantly creating and destroy particles out of nothing. This isn’t some crazy theoretical thought, we can actually measure the force created by these very short lived particles.

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If you really want to blow your mind, think about how in even empty space, the quantum world is constantly creating and destroy particles out of nothing. This isn’t some crazy theoretical thought, we can actually measure the force created by these very short lived particles.

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How about that LHC huh.

Next step is quantum computing. If they can only figure out that pesky little three atom thin membrane thingy.

We’re about to hit a wall. Well, errrr, we already have actually.