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SirPeale:
And don't forget, he's also a gangster rap artist.

Do a search for "MC Hawking".

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 06, 2010, 08:03:00 pm ---

Traveling across the galaxy just to see where The A-Team transmission originated from sounds unlikely. If they’ve come looking for us it's because they want something from us.

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Moot anyway. I've forgotten the correct term, but all our transmissions (noise) becomes meaningless garbage within a fairly short distance. No one will ever 'hear' us. So if travelers come, they won't know about us until they are quite close...

northerngames:
he had a short part in the superhero movie too  :laugh2:

Epyx:

--- Quote ---Nah, I totally disagree with your point #2.  All of our technology advances as human beings have been war-related, I'd expect aliens to be the same
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Fair enough, your opinion :)

I just don't think a warlike species would ever evolve technology capable of making it across the stars.  We fight our wars against factions of our own species.  Where does it end? Does Earth end up with one religion? One political faction? At what point do we unite?  Wars and our petty barbarian traits will ensure we never make it to the stars to do harm to others.  

I feel the same is true for aliens...the warlike will always splinter, even after defeating the other faction, splintering will happen again and again until mutual destruction is assured.  Look at all of earth's great empires...take the Romans for example splintering and corruption from within was as much to blame as barbarian incursions.

We are talking about getting from one star system to another a distance that will take lifetimes or technology even our imagination can't fully grasp.  Now if we were talking about two neighboring planets in a single star system then yes, Christopher Columbus revisited.

Now turning back to the vast distances between star systems and what that would entail...what would prompt a species to develop technology capable of achieving interstellar travel?  Would it be the civilization on the planet that is dying from pollution and draining of resources?  I don't think so,  the technology involved in interstellar travel would address domestic pollution and resource draining.  The technology required would need to come from a civilization that outlasted wars, outlasted all the issues we face...could that civilization be truly warlike? Again, i don't think so.

It won't be an America or a China that develops interstellar capable technology it could only be a united earth and how likely is that? How far removed from the humans we are today?


--- Quote ---Traveling across the galaxy just to see where The A-Team transmission originated from sounds unlikely
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I can't think of another reason? At the point such technology is realized, resources/technology on a planet like ours will likely not be part of the equation.  I think this is the only reason any species would ever wander to neighboring stars.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Epyx on May 07, 2010, 11:13:15 pm ---
--- Quote ---Nah, I totally disagree with your point #2.  All of our technology advances as human beings have been war-related, I'd expect aliens to be the same
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Fair enough, your opinion :)

I just don't think a warlike species would ever evolve technology capable of making it across the stars.  We fight our wars against factions of our own species.  Where does it end? Does Earth end up with one religion? One political faction? At what point do we unite?  Wars and our petty barbarian traits will ensure we never make it to the stars to do harm to others.  



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war is about property. Who owns the moon? Who ever wins the war, that's who!

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