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Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:20 pm to weagle99
The aliens are far too advanced for any of our technology to work when looking for them. we are merely anthills in their world.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:22 pm to Walking the Earth
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Hello, End of Thread. Nice to meet you.
Huge satellites around planets, super close to us are discovered all of the time, but these clowns think they can see infrared images from a computer a billion miles away. they can't even see huge rocks in our neighborhood.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:25 pm to weagle99
quote:Assuming a civilization reaches this hypothetical capability, what if they don't care to colonize more than necessary. It's like watching Star Wars and seeing all of these different alien species have the same motivations and reasoning as humans, then realize all our hypotheses about life and behavior is based on our own limited understanding of life on this planet. Again it's interesting, and has logic, but it's conjecture.
The idea is that given enough time or the development of a benevolent singularity a civilization can develop the ability to colonize an entire galaxy. Sounds crazy at first but IIRC the numbers say that with self replicating probes it would be possible to colonize the Milky Way in something like 100,000 years
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:30 pm to buckeye_vol
But if a galaxy is a million light years away we still have no clue what's there now, right?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:32 pm to weagle99
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The idea is that given enough time or the development of a benevolent singularity a civilization can develop the ability to colonize an entire galaxy. Sounds crazy at first but IIRC the numbers say that with self replicating probes it would be possible to colonize the Milky Way in something like 100,000 years.
Yeah but why the need to colonize the whole galaxy, when you can just colonize specific sectors. Plus what if they created an efficient way to travel between galaxies. They could colonize just the solar systems they want, across vast regions of space. The belief that advanced races would colonize whole galaxies is one of many theories.
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With an adversarial singularity the timeline could shorten. One of the real fears with developing a true AI is that entity will turn the galaxy into a big paperclip factory or similar (I am not making that up).
Doesn't mean it would happen. Just another theory. It's very possible to create AI that will function to their specifications, without rebelling from their creators like some assume.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:32 pm to biglego
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But if a galaxy is a million light years away we still have no clue what's there now, right?
Exactly.
If the Death Star blew up Alderaan 700,000 years ago, we wouldn't "see" it for another 300,000 years.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:35 pm to LSUzealot
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The aliens are far too advanced for any of our technology to work when looking for them. we are merely anthills in their world.
What if the universe is full of intelligent life but due to limitations of energy and distance none are ever able to make it much past where we are in advancements? We would never know if they existed, just like they will never know we exist.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:38 pm to biglego
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But if a galaxy is a million light years away we still have no clue what's there now, right?
Yeah, its tough to make a call on whats in the universe when you only have data that is millions to billions year old to observe.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:42 pm to Slayer103
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So all they've learned is that as far as we can tell, no alien civilization has conquered an entire galaxy?
Bitch please.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:43 pm to Dandy Lion
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Alright, what about retarded aliens?
Our telescopes aren't good enough to see a crimson A yet.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:43 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Or as Douglas Adams put it:
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Population: None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 7:48 pm to Slayer103
Today the Galaxy, tomorrow the Universe!
The chance that conditions in the atmosphere are just right so that amino acids are formed, while enormous, IMHO it has happened somewhere else at some period, past or present
The chance that conditions in the atmosphere are just right so that amino acids are formed, while enormous, IMHO it has happened somewhere else at some period, past or present
Posted on 4/14/15 at 8:02 pm to weagle99
The Fermi paradox is kind of shite.
Sure we have looked in a lot of places for aliens and found nothing but it's like someone with atomic tweezers picking individual atoms out of the dirt in his yard looking for gold atoms. Eventually he will find One, he may have to go through all the dirt in a tri state area, but eventually he will find a gold atom and before he does he's gonna find a shite load of not gold atoms.
Sure we have looked in a lot of places for aliens and found nothing but it's like someone with atomic tweezers picking individual atoms out of the dirt in his yard looking for gold atoms. Eventually he will find One, he may have to go through all the dirt in a tri state area, but eventually he will find a gold atom and before he does he's gonna find a shite load of not gold atoms.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 9:23 pm to weagle99
What if aliens are like alien ?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 9:39 pm to buckeye_vol
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Absence of Evidence =/= Evidence of Absence
i find it funny when atheists take this tack with people who don't believe in aliens.
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