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mcmurray

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EVOL!

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If advanced beings from a distant universe had been watching us earthlings for lets say about the last 3000 years, I'll bet they're terrified of us... [scared] Their front row seat of watching us earthlings torcher each other since the beginning of "civilization," has to make any extraterrestrial life form stay clear of our destructive nature.

 

OK, I'll give you this point.

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If aliens come and certainly we must assume they are of higher intelligence, why would they enslave us?

Doesn't higher intellect assure compassion for all universal beings.

 

To enslave, pillage and destroy would put them on the same level as stupid capitalist Americans.msp_ohmy.gif

 

I feel the same way as Stephen Hawking: If an alien race makes it to earth they most certainly will be

 

- light years more advanced than us

- looking for other planets because they ruined their own through war or abuse of resources.

 

Just like talent does not equal taste, higher intellect does not equal compassion.

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Well I am all for the melding of the brain with hardware.........but the solo's ....naw I ain't goin out like dat.....I am going to enroll in some hybrid human computer experimental project.........the transfer of consciousness will be achieved thus eternal life will be attained..........

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rocketman

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They should get that Professor BarnHardt guy--he knew how to talk to aliens.

 

My technical great-grandfather (i.e, my Ph.D. advisor advisor's advisor) wrote the actual equations on Professor Barnhardt's blackboard. His name was Dr. Samuel Herrick and he consulted on the 1951 movie. He actually coached Michael Rennie, the actor who played Klaatu, what to write on the board. I have a picture of Herrick teaching Rennie. The equations are real orbital dynamics equations and you can see Herrick's flavor in them.

 

Here's the picture. Herrick is on the left.

 

herrick.jpg

 

BTW, I'd like to have a mathematical discussion with an alien...

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cookieman15061

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I feel the same way as Stephen Hawking: If an alien race makes it to earth they most certainly will be

 

- light years more advanced than us

- looking for other planets because they ruined their own through war or abuse of resources.

 

Just like talent does not equal taste, higher intellect does not equal compassion.

 

yeah I was just coloring with sarcasm.

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Golem

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While I'm not in favor of the UN just turning out the lights

going outa bidnez ... being as they are all we've got ... for

better or worse ... I really can't see asking them to take

on such a pointless extra project when they can barely

manage a half-baked facade of their more important roles.

 

The UN cites "recent discovery" of many more planets

orbiting many more stars than were previously estimated

as increasing the likelihood of contact ... Duh uh-uhhh !

 

Now THAT is major stoopididitty. Those planets were all

there before we "discovered" them .... and haven't much

bothered to drop by for high tea. Oh !! Maybe they saw

all the human eyeballs now peeking at them and figured

"Well, we better get over there and give the earthlings a

closer look at us ! " How neighborly of our friends only

a few billion light years away. Maybe we can jam out !

 

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BTW, speaking of light years ..... if our jam mates are,

say 500,000,000 light years away, and if we've only just

recently "discovered" them, that means the evidence of

their existence is 500,000,000 EARTH YEARS out of

date. They could be extinct, extinct before earthlings

ever crawled outa the muck onto the beach.

 

And that means, if you bleeb in StarTrek-style Warp

Speed travel [faster than light] ..... then our new-found

500,000,000 years extinct jam mates just might NOT

be extinct at all .... maybe they are US, and you are

them, and we are all together with Paul the Walrus ?

 

If WE left that place 500,000,000 earth years ago to

arrive hear at Warp Factor [pick a number], then we

are just 'jet-lagged' and are looking back at ourselves

before we left our previous home ..... cuz even if we

recklessly drove here at Warp 9, the light and radio

waves that today show us our former home have

been leisurely cruising toward earth at Warp 1, so

we "in person" got here long before the evidence of

our previous existence [place of departure] got here.

 

I mean, just do the math ! I am NOT making this up !

This is why science fiction writers, be it HG Wells or

DC Comix, will always connect Time Travel to some

scheme for Exceeding The Speed of Light.

 

 

 

 

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rocketman

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Say we were gonna travel at the speed of light - 186,000 miles per second, right?

If the human body could sustain 10 G's for a prolonged period of time - it can't, but...

 

At the acceleration rate that would expose us to 10 G's how long would it take us to get up to 670 million mph?

 

1 g = 32 ft/sec^2 = (32 ft/sec^2) * (1 mile/5280 ft) * (3600 sec/hour)^2 = 78,545 mile/hr^2

 

10 g's would be 785,450 mile/hr^2. To get how many hours it would take to reach 670 million mph we take 670*1e8/785450, which equals 85,301 hours, which is equivalent to 9.73 years.

 

Time is not the problem obviously. The idea of "warping" is to warp space around by introducing a lot of mass (e.g., a black hole). This will make the space between two points "shorter" so you don't need to go that fast. But we obviously don't have a black hole near us...

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