Who was it that mentioned that when first contact comes, they'll only come to steal all our water and atmosphere, barely even noticing that we were here at all.
Who was it that mentioned that when first contact comes, they'll only come to steal all our water and atmosphere, barely even noticing that we were here at all.
The author of that article wrote that alien's could be so powerful that "we would be the Stoke to their Chelsea." Somebody wrote in the comments section: "Earth's last hope: the Delap long throw." Tea on keyboard moment.
exactly Bryan... why dont we send a probe which will reach the outer limits of the solar system in the meantime?
I like my t'chips without piss, thanks.
Well it would reach there along the way. Perhaps our probes should be designed with a final destination somewhere 2,000 years away and durability to make it that far and transmit. Why not? We have the technology now to do it. Whose to say we still will in 2,000 years? Our ancestors might still be able to receive the signal.
If the average life-cycle of a Sun-type star is about 10 billion years, from formation to supernova/burnout, some of those most distant galaxies Hubble is photographing are quite literally not there anymore, aren't they? Most if not all of the stars in them will have "died", and the material from those deaths may well have either formed new stars, or collapsed into black holes, or done something new we've not had the chance to observe yet?
exactly Bryan... why dont we send a probe which will reach the outer limits of the solar system in the meantime?
I like my t'chips without piss, thanks.
Well it would reach there along the way. Perhaps our probes should be designed with a final destination somewhere 2,000 years away and durability to make it that far and transmit. Why not? We have the technology now to do it. Whose to say we still will in 2,000 years? Our ancestors might still be able to receive the signal.
Sorry Bryan, I thought for a second that you were being ... whatever.
If we dont do whatever, which involves whatever, now, then we will be too busy to realise when we are overrun by our soon-to-be squirrel overlords.
Seriously, we/they should spend our money on getting the fuck out of here, to elsewhere, or at least, try.
Rogin, even more so. The earliest stars were much bigger and brighter than the sun, and burned correspondingly faster. Astronomers reckon our Sun is a third generation star, ie its formed from the debris of a supernova(or supernovae), which was itself the formed from the debris of an earlier generation.
How cool is Voyager?! I was ten when they were launched and was enthralled by the idea of them. Vger and Star Trek just made it more so...Here's the official Voyager website http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Check out the distance counter on the righ hand side
(Off subject, but I've just met a new expression from BoE's link: 'to get owned' - meaning to get hit, apparently. Has that been round for a long time? I'm a bit out of what slang's being used in Britain these days ...)
I think it is related to the equally inexplicable "getting pwned" which one of the kids on here will probably explain to us.
I don't think that getting owned means just getting hit. I think it means getting shown up by someone like this
The thing is with Jeremy Kyle, I have nothing against most of the people who appear on there as they obviously had no chance of their lives ending up as anything other than truly dysfunctional.
It's Kyle, his producers and the middle class voyeurs who watch it that I have issues with. It's a cliche but it's just grotesque freakshow except Kyle tried to dress it up as helping people
The thing I find most incredible in that - and it's not that I don't find all the rest incredible - is this:
Sustained by their radioactive power packs, the probes' instruments continue to function well and return data to Earth, although the vast distance between them and Earth means a radio message now has a travel time of about 16 hours.
I mean bloody hell. It's really quite a long way away. Only 16 hours? The very least I can say is that the Argentine postal service could learn a thing or two from Voyager.
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