this is all we have - Search for Advanced Civilizations beyond Earth Finds Nothing Obvious in 100,000 Galaxies

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AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 18, 2015 2:53 AM

We have camps in the antarctic, a station in space, we can have the same on the Mars.

Only a matter of time before we do.

SIGNYM

Saturday, April 18, 2015 7:32 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

We have camps in the antarctic, a station in space, we can have the same on the Mars.

Only a matter of time before we do.

Huh?
Surely, you jest.

Your examples: They're either ON THE EARTH, or they get their supplies from earth. They both need constant re-supply. Do you think that would happen with Mars?

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AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 18, 2015 7:45 AM

Life finds a way

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

WISHIMAY

Saturday, April 18, 2015 8:35 AM

I believe "they" wouldn't tell us if they did find something, which I have a feeling they already have. There wouldn't be any value in telling us, it would only create instabilities- but they have to look like they are looking...

We'll make it to Mars, may even stay a while, but inevitably life will change, wars will come and old concerns will be tossed aside again.

Nothing ever changes much.

1KIKI

Saturday, April 18, 2015 9:41 AM

"... but they have to look like they are looking..."

Why? No one is going to come after them if they don't, especially if they're NOT focused on such an obscure property as the energy signal of entropy.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I believe "they" wouldn't tell us if they did find something, which I have a feeling they already have. There wouldn't be any value in telling us, it would only create instabilities- but they have to look like they are looking...

Well, go back to the movie CONTACT. How would " they " keep it hidden? The honor code ? Now, I'm speaking of INTELLIGENT life, of course. I have no doubt that we may have found life on Mars, simple , cellular organisms, at most, an that could have been hidden. Maybe for the reasons you said... stability. My view is that it would take the focus off of our 'leaders' as folks realized how ridiculous our lives are, being wasted under the direction of others.

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We'll make it to Mars, may even stay a while, but inevitably life will change, wars will come and old concerns will be tossed aside again.

Nothing ever changes much.

Over time, everything changes.

Everything.

But back to the matter of INTELLIGENT life, out there... if a signal or some evidence of life out there is found, what then ? It would be an echo from a form of life that most likely no longer exists. Or would be long dead, if we could ever send them back a reply.

Maybe that's how this works. Ghosts from eons ago, reaching out to future beings, who in turn become the ghosts to other beings, and so on.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

WHOZIT

Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:27 PM

I just saw the new "STAR WARS" trailer, so I know there is life on other planets.

SIGNYM

Saturday, April 18, 2015 9:55 PM

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Life finds a way

Uh huh.

Do you know what "life" does? Bacteria in a petri dish start out growing rather slowly at first, but their growth is exponential and when they get to a critical mass it appears as if their growth rate explodes. Suddenly, they're all over the dish.

And then, just as suddenly, they die- poisoned by their accumulated waste and starved by lack of food.

That's what "life" does: it grows to the limits of its resources, and then its pruned back by circumstances of its own making.

But I thought we were supposed to be INTELLIGENT life.

So, are we?

Intelligent?

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

1KIKI

Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:56 AM

".we'd look a bit unoccuppied as well"

Hi there old guy

They were looking for 'advanced civilizations' - so advanced they had colonized entire galaxies.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

JO753

Monday, April 20, 2015 3:58 PM

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Originally posted by OLDGUY:
I'm just a tad dumb about all this..but if someone were looking our way from another planet..say 2 million light years away...we'd look a bit unoccuppied as well..just a few dinosuars roaming around right?...

Rite.

I dont really get wut this 'mid infrared' idea iz about. Therez all sorts uv tek thats not putting out much, if any heat and a variety uv naural fenominon that puts out lots uv heat below wut you see frum starz.

Absens uv evidens iz evidens uv absens, just not very strong evidens until youv serched the entire area in question. And the entire univers iz quite an area.

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