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Still no ET but still trying...

Vince

...and still nothing...LOL

I used to have that installed on my puters..., never found him either...

or did I?

Let's re-visit ths thread in a year. Again...

Scientists have determined with relative assurity, that although it is a mathematical certainty that life exists on at least ONE of the trillions and trillions of planets in our known universe, the closest planet that they are aware of, capable of sustaining life as we know it, is fo far away, that any signal transmitted at the speed of light would still take longer ONE-WAY to reach us, than the Earth is old.

In other words, as far as intergalactical communications is concerned, WE'RE STILL ON DIAL-UP.

You may have better luck attempting contact with intelligent life forms in inner space.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Razpewton, were you being sarcastic? Either that or I'm confused.

This planet in question that is also capable of sustaining life, how do we know this if it is so far away that, "WE'RE STILL ON DIAL-UP". How has the conclusion been drawn that it can sustain life?

Some program I watched on the Learning Channel a while back examined the possibility of extraterrestial life and promoted the hypothesis that IF life exists in the Universe, other than Earth [as we know it], it would most certainly contain key elements such as carbon dioxide, an ozone (indicative of the presence of oxygen) and methane. Carbon-based bodies depicted in this research mentioned "bio-markers" x-ray detection, gammaray fingerprint patterns and infrared observations, but I didn't take notes on the presentaion, so I'm unsure how all this ties together without doing extensive research. In short, it was reported that the nearest planet capable of life as we know it, was over 6 trillion light years away....as near as I can remember.

More to the point, it was also suggested that, IF the distance issue were not a concern for any advanced, intelligent lifeform capable of making the trip, what would be their motivation for doing so?


Grocery shopping? :D :D :D

Some program I watched on the Learning Channel a while back examined the possibility of extraterrestial life and promoted the hypothesis that IF life exists in the Universe, other than Earth [as we know it], it would most certainly contain key elements such as carbon dioxide, an ozone (indicative of the presence of oxygen) and methane. Carbon-based bodies depicted in this research mentioned "bio-markers" x-ray detection, gammaray fingerprint patterns and infrared observations, but I didn't take notes on the presentaion, so I'm unsure how all this ties together without doing extensive research. In short, it was reported that the nearest planet capable of life as we know it, was over 6 trillion light years away....as near as I can remember.

More to the point, it was also suggested that, IF the distance issue were not a concern for any advanced, intelligent lifeform capable of making the trip, what would be their motivation for doing so?


Grocery shopping? :D :D :D

sweet avatar raz :)

Thats statistically speaking. However, since we dont know exactly how many other galaxies there are in our universe, it's a wild guess. Current technology has a hard time find gas giants in nearby solar systems, so there is still no reliable way to find planets that might be capable of life. I think the farthest one detected was 11 light years or so. Thats a far cry form the 20,000 lightyears to the other side of our galaxy.

Although talking at the speed of light means we probably wont find anything, and if we do we probably wont be able to talk to them, but I dont think its correct to say that out of a few trillions suns in our galaxy we are the only planet capable of life. Maybe life as we know it, but lets face it, would you think a lobster and a monkey came from the same planet? How about planets with very little water, or aletrnatively, a lot of it? As long as the planet falls into the rough size/temp range we know it should sprout something, and who's to say a more massive planet, or less so wouldnt sustain a type of life? You do realize there's specualtion there could be life within our own solar system in the jovian satelites.

As to why they would make the trip, I dunno. Maybe for the same reason people climb mountains and drive gas guzzling sportscars. Why not? should be interesting at the least.

With that said, visiting Arrecibo was a cool experience. I still have my mail server at home crunching away on it, but I've only gotten a couple thousand units in since it's a slow machine. But who knows.

I think it would be arrogant as hell for us to feel we are the only lifeform in the universe. I firmly believe in lifeforms from outside our known galaxy. There could be no other explanation for Michael Jackson.... :rolleyes:

I thought MIB cleared up that little situation a few years ago.