Especially considering that the entire scope of recorded history is barely 10,000 years old, and the human species is more or less 100,000 years old.

Yeah, that's pushing it a bit.

Farscape is fun to watch, though.

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...No?
Noooo, of course not. Whatever would give you that idea?
*kaff*
Though I would say that the latter option is more accurate.
If I were an Illusive... person. WHICH I'M NOT.


EDIT: Remember, kids, you exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it.


Silliness aside, I think the probability of life on other planets far, far outweighs the idea that we are alone in the universe.
But that's just me.

It's possible if space is infinite. In fact it's a certainty if space is infinite.

Yeah but it's not.

I think that life will exist outside of Earth. I just don't think we'll ever see it. The chance of life existing is rare and it takes a long time to get to the sentience we have. And we've only been in the universe (the planet itself) for a sliver of time. Almost insignificant on the grand scale of time. I don't doubt that life will (or does) exist somewhere other than Earth, I just don't think we'll ever know for certain about it, or it about us.

By picking up our broadcasts and injecting code into our webz.







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Startrek, the original series new a thing or two about humanized aliens..
original klingons :rofl:

Math. 1+1 = 2 for everything. The only question is how to convey they we are taking two things and adding them. Tricky!



Nope. Even two countries share commonalities in that we are all human. We all breathe air, drink water, eat food. We all produce waste, procreate, sleep and have 10 fingers and 10 toes. We all have mouths, eyes, noses etc. We know what a smile or a frown means. We know what an angry face looks like. This means each human language has a word for those things and by finding the common areas you can break down the meanings for the other more abstract stuff. Aliens may not have those things, hence no way of translating them. It's like trying to translate "pinata" into English. There's no word for it, it's just a pinata. But we can explain a pinata with words: it's a container full of candy that kids hit with sticks at birthday parties. But with aliens there isn't necessarily a common context where things like that can be defined.

Not technically infinite, but isn't space continuously growing and expanding?

They could be a species worse than us for all we know if they are out there.

How is it not? What comes after space, i mean, if space is nothing, what comes after nothing then?

Nothing?

Nothing x 2?

I don't think its 8 billion, more like 5 billion years. A star the size of our sun lives for about 10 billion years. Its about 4.5 billion years old at the moment.

Global warming is probably just a mid life crisis

Nothing, tra-la-la?

The way I see it is there's a 100% probability.
It just isn't possible that Earth can be the only life sustaining planet among so many other galaxies. There's just no way, man. Obviously, the more systems/galaxies there are, the higher the probability. With higher intelligence than us.
And if you believe in an alien Roswell crash like I do, then they're already here. :ahhh:

Obviously the realm of existence is confined to what we can see! Not really...

Eventually the universe, in the outer edges, will start expanding faster than the speed of light, which will make those areas practically invisible. I think it goes a little farther than we might think.

Hmm...

What if WE'RE the insects to massive giants that are a hundred times more sophisticated than ourselves? What if this so-called "universe" is really just a planet that we THINK is holding everything?

I've been watching to much Men in Black :wacko: .

Actually a simpler way to prove that we're intelligent is by transmitting prime numbers. Once we've established that, learning how to communicate more sophistically is just a matter of time and patience.







_{(Holy [censored] I've really been watching too much Farscape. :wacko: )}

Didn't Carl sagan say that one day we will be the aliens? Me, I believe in them.

Problem there is that representation of numbers would have to be in some universal format, rather than our Arabic numerals (123456789 and 0). Have better luck representing elemental atoms than numbers I think.

Mah aliens, http://www.k3pgp.org/seti/aliens.jpg. :hehe:

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How about:

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That universal enough for you?

Another thing to ponder about: do you think humans will ever be able to travel at the speed of lite or faster? If there is life out there, the only way i see us contacting them would be to travel this fast at least.

You're thinking too inside-the-box. There no reason to necessarily assume that we have to work within the boundaries of space and time as we know it. Even if we ever did figure out a way to travel at C (or faster), a current mathematical impossibility, it would still be a horrible way to travel. Even at the speed of light, you would basically say goodbye to everything you know for a trip to the closest star. At exactly the speed of light, you would notice no passage of time, but when you made the round trip to there and back to earth, nine years would have passed. Now imagine going to some of the more interesting places -- some hundreds, or thousands, of light-years away. By the time you GET there, nothing on Earth would be the same. And it would take as long to communicate back as it did to travel. Just thinking about those practical limitations makes traveling at the speed of light unappealing for stellar distances. Going to, say, Saturn, would be one thing. But all the way out to another system? Nah.

You need to forget what you think you know about classical mechanics for a little while, and start pondering the possibilities of theoretical physics. For example, there's a notion in quantum mechanics that states that one particle can exist in two places at once. That is, that particle exists in spacetime just like you and I, but it only shares the time portion, not the space. So when a force acts on that particle at one location in space, the very same particle, perhaps on the other side of the universe, would react the same way. There's your form of instant communication.

Physics is getting closer to the understanding that the universe, matter, space, and time are all illusions built up upon each other. There's so much we don't know that to limit ourselves to what we do know seems short-sighted. Of course, we don't know what we don't know, but we won't know it until we start looking.