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Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Isaac Send a noteboard - 09/07/2012 06:47:43 AM
Even if we confirmed tomorrow morning that there were indeed aliens in that star system, it's unlikely that my life would change at all. No matter what we find, we can't get there, or even send a message, within five or six of my lifetimes. To those of us living today, humanity's most momentous discovery of all time would be little more than water-cooler chat.


Well heck, you never know, physics gets some great stuff done but so does medicine, biological immortality isn't exactly a pipe dream. One thing worth remembering though is hat while light lag makes dialogue impractical, it doesn't make observation impractical, we really do have a pretty short reception range right now, we could easily expand that and tune into some alien cable

I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but sometimes I think NASA's budget should be entirely redirected into physics research, with the goal of developing FTL travel. Finding stuff is cool and all, but at the same time it doesn't do much good while we remain stuck in our solar system.


Oh, if we had any theories for doing FTL we'd dump money in it like crazy, gov't and private sector, we don't, and to be honest while I'd never say 'impossible' I really don't expect that to ever change. Right now I'd settle very happily for a functioning fusion reactor, that's the one that really opens windows up.
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TYC 8241 2652 - Alien Dyson Swarm? Isaac - 08/07/2012 06:18:35 AM 2113 Views
Nice post. Seeing things in space that we don't understand is awesome. Ghavrel - 08/07/2012 07:39:41 AM 313 Views
Can you put the link in? Currently it just leads to your own post. Tim - 08/07/2012 10:30:51 AM 291 Views
Government conspiracy to suppress the truth... Isaac - 08/07/2012 05:39:31 PM 306 Views
Why can't it be their home star? Tim - 08/07/2012 10:05:41 PM 322 Views
The star's only 10 million years old Isaac - 09/07/2012 12:35:47 AM 379 Views
Evolution is environment-driven. Tim - 09/07/2012 09:31:25 AM 301 Views
I agree but 10 Mill is a short time Isaac - 10/07/2012 05:34:36 AM 276 Views
Hmm, good point. Forgot to compare that with our sun's 4.6bn years... *NM* Tim - 10/07/2012 08:33:53 AM 143 Views
Yeah the numbers involved in astronomical stuff tend to throw ya, gets me all the time *NM* Isaac - 11/07/2012 01:21:16 AM 139 Views
So it's nothing to do with the vacuum cleaners? Stephen - 08/07/2012 09:01:58 PM 336 Views
Every time I google Dyson stuff I get little auto-google ads on those vacuums for the next week Isaac - 08/07/2012 09:23:33 PM 290 Views
This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Aemon - 09/07/2012 05:27:30 AM 343 Views
Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Isaac - 09/07/2012 06:47:43 AM 392 Views
No kidding; I want my expletive fusion reactor al-expletive-ready. Joel - 09/07/2012 07:19:14 AM 449 Views
Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Aemon - 09/07/2012 04:13:02 PM 423 Views
Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Isaac - 09/07/2012 10:50:36 PM 523 Views
Hnnng futuristic wet dream *NM* Ghavrel - 10/07/2012 03:00:50 AM 136 Views
I am a little confused why we would seek stars emitting tons of IR as evidence of Dyson Spheres. Joel - 09/07/2012 05:29:56 AM 465 Views
Ah, that's just blackbody radiation Isaac - 09/07/2012 06:29:17 AM 290 Views
Guess so, yeah. Joel - 09/07/2012 07:09:50 AM 518 Views
TK 421, why aren't you at your post? *NM* TaskmasterJack - 10/07/2012 12:40:39 AM 134 Views
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