It’s a subject that absolutely fascinates me. The universe is so vast that that intelligent life must exist, even if it’s not widespread. What bothers me is our way of looking, we search for radio waves, what if other civilisations don’t commicate that way?
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Thread: The hunt for alien life
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19-12-2020 12:33 AM #1
The hunt for alien life
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19-12-2020 12:40 AM #2
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19-12-2020 08:12 AM #3
I'd like to flag up the possibility of using semaphore.
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19-12-2020 10:14 AM #5
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No matter how advanced civilisations might become I’m not sure the limitations of physics can be overcome to travel the distances required.
Are radio waves not a bit of a constant in that just about everything emits some form of waves that can be captured?
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19-12-2020 10:33 AM #6
It's funny that there isn't substantially more footage of UFO's given the billions of smartphones/cameras being carried at all times across the planet.
I appreciate that this doesn't mean that there isn't life elsewhere. If I had to give an answer I'd say that there probably is, but possibly in forms that we might not even understand as being life.
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19-12-2020 11:21 AM #7
Part of me would love to discover alien life, there’s also the pessimistic part of me that is happy living in blissful ignorance. Discovering alien life then leads to worries about how vulnerable we might be to hostile advanced civilisations.
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19-12-2020 11:49 AM #9
This is a fascinating subject. There must be life of some sorts elsewhere. What always intrigues me about Science Fiction is that the stories are always satirising about how we can't get on as one species and live in harmony on the one tiny planet. Maybe the subject needs to move away from space craft and hostile aliens wanting to invade.
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19-12-2020 11:55 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-12-2020 12:01 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Like most of this stuff I tend to be open minded, millions of people who see and hear things can't all be loopy.
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19-12-2020 12:05 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3FThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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19-12-2020 03:10 PM #14
If aliens made contact people would go mad. We wouldn't be able to handle it.
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19-12-2020 07:54 PM #16
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I think it’s arrogant in the extreme to believe that humanity is the only intelligent life form in the multitude of galaxies known to us ( never mind all the places we don’t know about).
Quantum physics may supply the answer in future or maybe Philip Pullman is nearer the truth with His Dark materials.
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19-12-2020 07:57 PM #17
Opened this thread expecting something about a pub crawl through Gorgie
Had the chance to visit SETI's HQ a couple of years ago (it's based not far from where I live when I'm Stateside) and it's fascinating to see some of the things that are going on in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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19-12-2020 08:10 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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19-12-2020 09:15 PM #19
There was an Oxford study recently that suggested if intelligent life as we know it on earth is typical it's highly likely we may be alone in the universe.
It worked on the statistical possibilities of all the flukes it took to create intelligent life on earth and calculated how likely it was to happen elsewhere. It also pointed out it took 4.5 billion years for intelligent life to appear on earth, about 4/5s of the way through our planet expected lifespan. Humans are essentially living through the twilight years of earth.
I suppose you could argue that it's arrogant to assume we are alone. There is vast swathes of the universe we have never explored or observed. However we can observe about 13.67 billion light years from earth and have 100 billion stars in our own galaxy to focus on and the suggestion of intelligent life elsewhere is almost non existent. We may well have company in the universe but it would seem we are quite rare.
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19-12-2020 09:54 PM #20
The most famous attempt to quantify this is the Drake equation. It’s probably a bit outdated now, but it’s still the only attempt at trying to put a figure on this.
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