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Yeah I don't think intelligent aliens have been here and it's doubtful they would treat us any different than we do undiscovered amazonian tribes at the moment: as a fly-over area. If they're smart enough to figure out interstellar or even intergalactic travel, why consider contacting a species that is still restricted to its own orbit.

Apart from that, some astro- physicists and biologists are quite certain life is only possible on a handful of planets in the entire galaxy, that number being even smaller for intelligent life. We'd probably be tremendously lucky to live in the same timeline as an intelligent star-travelling species.

Last edited by Larssen (2021-05-23 01:20:30)

Larssen wrote:

Yeah I don't think intelligent aliens have been here and it's doubtful they would treat us any different than we do undiscovered amazonian tribes at the moment: as a fly-over area. If they're smart enough to figure out interstellar or even intergalactic travel, why consider contacting a species that is still restricted to its own orbit.

Apart from that, some astro- physicists and biologists are quite certain life is only possible on a handful of planets in the entire galaxy, that number being even smaller for intelligent life. We'd probably be tremendously lucky to live in the same timeline as an intelligent star-travelling species.

a small cavil here but actually, contemporary and current exoplanetary research is turning up a surprising picture. there are many, many planets which could support life in our galaxy. the earth is nowhere near as unique or special as we (have) like(d) to imagine.

you're thinking of so-called 'superhabitable zones', which is a category based on several huge assumptions of finding life very like our own (or even in conditions better than earth's own).

the real goalpost of exoplanetary research is the regular 'habitable zone', of which there's at least already 4000 and counting. really it's a matter of pointing the telescopes at a patch of sky and crunching the math. we are finding them all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p … exoplanets

Last edited by uziq (2021-05-23 01:29:56)

I miss MS Space Sim. Wish MS would revisit that, though not in a games-as-a-service format.

We have a lopsided view of what a 'habitable zone' is.
And as we know once life exists it can transport itself and make uninhabitable zones habitable and/or adapt to it, there's a word for it, like biostasis- which is also relevant.

A nuclear bomb going off may well be a gnats fart but equally it may well have a very distinct signature, and if someone is looking for it maybe they'll find it.

We can see supernovae that happened billions of years ago and half way across the universe, we can look up and see the same in our own galaxy when they happen. If someone in our galaxy were actively looking for nuclear explosions I'm sure they'd detect them.

Unless faster than light travel exists, and its improbable, its not likely we have been visited, but its fun to think about.

The only wackaddodle theory I think is plausible is that life may well not have originated here, and it may have arrived multiple times.
The differences between bacteria, macrophages, viruses, octopi and vertebrates for a few being too extreme to seem likely to have developed in parallel and independently. If they did then its probable it happened elsewhere.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Where are you exactly?

Outside of NYC. I assume the topsoil must be thin but my area wasn't heavily developed.

Thank you. So what will it look like when I reach it? Will it just look like concrete?

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2021-05-25 08:06:12)

Dilbert_X wrote:

Um well apparently there are all kinds of rocks around NYC 50:50 whether you're on sedimentary or metamorphic.


Speaking of metamorphic rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILwGmpg2ohg

Thank you. I googled 'ordovician metamorphic rock' and found this picture of what the rock will look like.

So when I reach the bed rock, it will just be pure rock for miles underneath it? How far down in the soil will I continue to find bugs? Is soil 25 meters down different than soil 1 or 10 meters below the surface?

Thank you again

I don't seem to recall a single time when having zero or poor knowledge on a topic has ever stopped you from having a strong opinion on it.

Uziq wants to keep things focused, on track, and in serious mode at least in this section. So I thought I'd post something from our very serious US politicians.



So how about it libruls? Got an answer for this gentleman?

my hypothesis is: if dilbert got laid with a woman who wanted him once in the last 10 years, he could have spared us 10,000 posts of bile and claptrap.

People believe in things like lizard men, flat earth, 5G corona, and don't trust vaccines. How are you going to convince them to go live on Mars? Things would have to be preeeetty bad here.

What if the Martians don't want us sullying their hotels?

‘chances are the virus has already overtaken the vaccine’. lol. it’s almost … as if … thousands of scientists … are keeping an eye on this very thing …

but yes, dilbert and his ‘chances’. superior scientific mind at work!