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Originally posted by nerbot
reply to post by kthxbai
They landed (first) on a MOON, not a planet and there were no "unidentified" flying objects involved, we knew what they were from the start.
Just sayin'.
Originally posted by mcx1942
This reminded me of the Fermi Paradox
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The Fermi paradox (or Fermi's paradox) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations. The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart, are:
The Sun is a young star. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older;
Some of these stars likely have Earth-like planets which, if the Earth is typical, may develop intelligent life;
Presumably some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, as Earth seems likely to do;
At any practical pace of interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in just a few tens of millions of years.
According to this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited. But no convincing evidence of this exists. Furthermore, no confirmed signs of intelligence elsewhere have been spotted, either in our galaxy or the more than 80 billion other galaxies of the observable universe. Hence Fermi's question "Where is everybody?".
This is very interesting to think about. Maybe we are the ones that spread life throughout the Universe. I lean more towards the Drake equation, that there is probably intelligent life out there.
It would be awesome if we do spread out and create life in our local quadrant of space. I find that the most feasible(if not already teaming with life). One day down the line who knows, maybe we will make a network of Stargate like transports all over the Milky Way and a later, not as evolved form of huminoid could discover our legacy. Would be awesome! Great thread!edit on 1/9/2013 by mcx1942 because: fix
Originally posted by mcx1942
This is very interesting to think about. Maybe we are the ones that spread life throughout the Universe. I lean more towards the Drake equation, that there is probably intelligent life out there.
It would be awesome if we do spread out and create life in our local quadrant of space. I find that the most feasible(if not already teaming with life). One day down the line who knows, maybe we will make a network of Stargate like transports all over the Milky Way and a later, not as evolved form of huminoid could discover our legacy. Would be awesome! Great thread!edit on 1/9/2013 by mcx1942 because: fix
The Drake equation states that:
N = R^[\ast] \cdot f_p \cdot n_e \cdot f_[\ell] \cdot f_i \cdot f_c \cdot L
where:
N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past light cone);
and
R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fℓ = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space
Originally posted by Snoopie
How can you class us as UFO's when we know exactly what they are so they are by no means unidentified.
Originally posted by kthxbai
It has been confirmed. There are aliens traveling through space, landing on other planets in our known universe! They have been to at least two locations that we can verify with photographs. These are beings that traveled through space and landed, LANDED on a planet other than their own. They have sent out probes and collected data. They do exist. Absolutely, positively, they exist!!
This is a photograph of one of the extra-terrestrial visitors along with the craft they traveled through space in
And this is a photograph of a known probe
Makes you wonder...
As we send probes or even manned flights in the future, will WE become their aliens? Will our wrecked flights end up in THEIR "area 51" equivalent? Will they have outrageous stories about us?
....or, are other, more advanced civiliations on other planets waiting for us to catch up a little more before they contact us?
Are we the only ones? If we can do this what other life on other planets in habital zones are also capable? Have they already been here or are they yet to come? WE did it, are we the most advanced or are we the least advanced?
Everything we know, everything we've been, it's changing on a daily basis. Are we ready for change? Will we embrace it or rebel against it? Will we be controlled or will we be freed? There are many, many questions and the answers will be forthcoming.
Originally posted by Outrageo
reply to post by something wicked
You are mistaken. The Drake equation IS about intelligent life. It's not a matter of interpretation, merely how far into the equation you wish to go:
The Drake equation states that:
N = R^[\ast] \cdot f_p \cdot n_e \cdot f_[\ell] \cdot f_i \cdot f_c \cdot L
where:
N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past light cone);
and
R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fℓ = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space
The Drake Equation
Originally posted by Grimpachi
Get ready for those who deny that we went to the moon. There will always be at least one.
On the subject of traveling to planets outside our solar system that might not ever happen so we should be concentrating on preserving our precious Earth which we are doing a piss poor job of at the moment.
I would like to see a permanent base on the moon one day. The moon is rich with precious metals and Helium 3 which would be a clean abundant energy source although I think they said it is unstable to some degree however NASA has tested energy beaming methods to where energy could be produced on the moon and beamed to the Earth. The technology exists but the funding does not. Hopefully one day it will.