It just seems like that's a pretty limited thought process. We don't know what's out there on other planets and what resources other planets may have to work with. They may have resources we can't even imagine. Any thought at all as to what conditions would exist on a very distant planet are hypotheses at best.
Hell, I would be open to the thought that physics itself is different elsewhere. Not in the way that it's fundamentally different, but we're looking at things from a rather limited scope here. We're only able to test within a limited set of systems and everything outside of that is conjecture (however founded in mathematics and known physical principles). I'm not saying it's LIKELY...but I wouldn't discard the idea all together either.
So I guess I just don't see why fossil fuels or any other fuel/energy source we have HERE would be necessary for somewhere else.
Hell, I would be open to the thought that physics itself is different elsewhere. Not in the way that it's fundamentally different, but we're looking at things from a rather limited scope here. We're only able to test within a limited set of systems and everything outside of that is conjecture (however founded in mathematics and known physical principles). I'm not saying it's LIKELY...but I wouldn't discard the idea all together either.
So I guess I just don't see why fossil fuels or any other fuel/energy source we have HERE would be necessary for somewhere else.
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An interesting thought I had that may be worth discussion.
- 29/09/2011 07:22:01 PM
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I definitely agree with the first part.
- 29/09/2011 08:32:33 PM
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why do you think only those options would be available?
- 29/09/2011 08:35:53 PM
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Well just look at the history of Earth. And the cultural/advancement disparity would be FAR greater. *NM*
- 29/09/2011 08:58:52 PM
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Could be cultural domination.
- 29/09/2011 09:32:18 PM
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In one particular space opera, it's a mix and probably the best situation possible for humans.
- 29/09/2011 10:21:42 PM
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Unless their advancement is so great they are VERY ethically enlightened, her fears seem valid.
- 30/09/2011 03:04:40 AM
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I think I've met a few aliens...
- 30/09/2011 01:31:55 AM
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Those know it all holier than thou all powerful vegan aliens are SO annoying.
- 30/09/2011 06:40:30 AM
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Why do fossil fuels have to be involved?
- 29/09/2011 08:33:26 PM
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The big issue is energy density, IMHO.
- 30/09/2011 02:53:39 AM
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That's so perfect. 
- 30/09/2011 06:43:31 AM
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- 30/09/2011 06:43:31 AM
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I still agree with the view they are unlikley to intentionally punish us.
- 30/09/2011 09:35:13 AM
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We really have no idea how rare advance technologies societies are
- 30/09/2011 02:00:56 PM
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That's a really good point.
- 30/09/2011 04:34:28 PM
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The doomsdays options don't really hold up well though
- 30/09/2011 05:22:57 PM
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hmmm
- 30/09/2011 07:51:42 PM
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Yeah but that's just a variant of "Highly advanced aliens who for some reason are totally stupid"
- 30/09/2011 10:21:34 PM
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I didn't mean to imply that were not talking to us because they looked down on us
- 01/10/2011 01:07:02 AM
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Re: I didn't mean to imply that were not talking to us because they looked down on us
- 01/10/2011 02:50:42 AM
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of course I can't say, that was my point
- 30/09/2011 07:42:55 PM
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Re: If life formed, why might there not be fossil fuels equivalent to, or greater than, our own? *NM*
- 01/10/2011 03:16:23 AM
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