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originally posted by: jtrenthacker
Billionaires usually don't get rich investing millions just for fun.
originally posted by: Sakrateri
Anyone look at the board?
The Board of Breakthrough Starshot program consists of:
Stephen Hawking
Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global
Mark Zuckerberg
breakthroughinitiatives.org...
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
I would love for the world to divert all its attention and work towards space travel and it would be a great thing if this is the one discovery that helps make it all possible.
www.youtube.com...
originally posted by: Raggedyman
So a private businessman with interests in finding aliens has found alien signals
Mmm
I find this interesting but not on the same level as others
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
a reply to: Tagz
I would love for the world to divert all its attention and work towards space travel and it would be a great thing if this is the one discovery that helps make it all possible.
Starfleet academy anyone??? Nah im joking but it would be awesome to see future generation of kids lined up training to be the next space travelers.
Oh oh can i be the dashing yet irresponsible captain who eventually becomes a great captain by defeating a alien incursion to destroy planet earth by a singularity weapon?
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
Meh, its nice to see this all happening. We all know space is vast and infinite. Lets say this is all true and we do recieve a message from a star system estimated at least 100 light years away. The time it would take to decipher it and to determine a way of sending it could take years or decades, not to mention the time it takes to send any kind of reply signal through space using our current limited technology.
Need a visual? Here is a youtube video explaining why getting a message from an ET source is inevitably futile for now.
originally posted by: GovernmentSauce
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Springer
Bar none, the private sector consistently does things better than gov organizations.......
Nonsense. How about the education of lower socioeconomic classes, free healthcare, or improved social mobility? The private sector fares terribly in all these areas (which some might say are pretty damn important). It succeeds only where it can outspend gov't departments and where it can cherry-pick it's clientele.
On topic, remember that the US and Russian governments funded and supported the space race of the 60s, and therefore all achievements of that era are applicable to gov't agencies. I note in particular NASA were able to get to the moon in 7 years from Kennedy's speech. By contrast, how long have the private space industries been active, and what have their major successes been to date?
There's no comparison.
There's far too much ill-informed extreme right-wing 'theory' in the world.
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
For me it changes nothing. I always have known simply through logical thought processes. Everyone else who seem to think that the entire universe is there to be looked at for their own personal enjoyment, I cannot say. Their minds will be blown and I figure some will out right try to deny it and claim it as a hoax.
That's the thing about society, it really hasn't changed much since 50 years ago. People are still uneducated and ignorant of the fact that there is life beyond our little blue marble of a planet and life possibly existing beyond our 3 dimensions.
The public must know the truth either way, the longer they are kept from the truth worse off it will be.
I know for a fact the devout religious types will either think it is the end times or question their religious texts or question the validity of the findings for sure. LOL.
Where does it specifically state man is Gods only creation? SOme nutters will scream end times or science is the devil,but those of us with the view of God as a Scientist would not flip out. Come on He had to be a scientist to get humans so complex and also the universe as well.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
Russian oligarchs?
I thought they were all evil enemies who can never be trusted.
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
The confirmation does sound nice but the question is what does it change for us? How big of an impact and how long the impact will last on society?
Will it usher in world peace? Will it change religion? Societal norms? Mass hysteria? Global panic? A complete change in how people view the universe? These are the questions I'm currently interested in. What are we looking at.
originally posted by: grey580
Assuming we have the technology to event detect alien communication.