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HEyHEY
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:35 PM Original message |
When do you think we'll make "Contact" |
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jeff30997
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. We will pay for the clothes with Galactos! |
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Selwynn
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's not that I don't believe there may be other life out there... |
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FDRrocks
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. In an incomprehensibly vast universe |
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jpgray
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. But the infinite cuts both ways |
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FDRrocks
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. When I think of the universe... |
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Borknagar
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
47. Nah |
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psychopomp
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
56. The size of the universe |
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kiahzero
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:20 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Nah |
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jpgray
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:33 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Our galaxy has been around for ten billion years |
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muriel_volestrangler
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Wed Jun-09-04 05:50 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Not necessarily |
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kiahzero
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:16 AM Response to Reply #30 |
42. Except not |
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leyton
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:21 AM Response to Reply #30 |
45. That logic's a bit flawed... |
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muriel_volestrangler
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:25 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. What? You think that a piece claiming to prove |
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leyton
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:04 PM Response to Reply #46 |
54. Heheh... sorry. |
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w13rd0
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Life that we would recognize... |
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Pithlet
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Aw, you just like to spoil the fun. |
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troublemaker
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. Those estimates will change (life is common) |
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FlaGranny
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
50. On the contrary, the latest |
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Selwynn
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:11 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. So why have we discovered no habitable planets anywhere? |
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psychopomp
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:20 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Probes have yet to get to the surface of Titan |
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Canuckistanian
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:24 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. Because we can't see very far |
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Selwynn
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:50 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Fair enough :D |
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qwertyMike
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. Statistically... |
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jjmalonejr
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. Never |
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Salviati
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Tue Jun-08-04 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Drake Equation (for those who don't already know of it...) |
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Cleita
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. Oh, you are talking about aliens from other planets. |
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TreasonousBastard
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
9. If they're not already secretly here... |
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Cleita
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. That would be the one titled, |
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TreasonousBastard
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. You remembered! |
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indigobusiness
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Wed Jun-09-04 03:27 AM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Maybe "old and tough" is their preference... |
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Astarho
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
11. Depends when they show up |
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maggrwaggr
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
12. well I'd say it's about as likely as the rapture |
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DustMolecule
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
13. Well, Rove needs to come up with something really BIG right now.... |
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jpgray
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
15. Never--Fermi got it right, I think (nt) |
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DustMolecule
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:25 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Whaddya mean??? |
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jpgray
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. See my #17 in this thread--I sort of paraphrase Fermi's paradox (nt) |
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DustMolecule
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Wed Jun-09-04 12:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Actually that makes some sense..... |
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shraby
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. The aliens are already here. |
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Dark
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
25. Not for a long time. |
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Serenity-NOW
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Wed Jun-09-04 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
26. How about the Johnny Appleseed theory? |
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nevergivein
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Wed Jun-09-04 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
27. I just watched something that talked about this |
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indigobusiness
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Wed Jun-09-04 03:24 AM Response to Original message |
28. We measure the vastness the way we did a coast to coast road trip |
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FlaGranny
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Wed Jun-09-04 10:12 AM Response to Reply #28 |
52. When I was a kid, my dad |
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indigobusiness
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Wed Jun-09-04 11:44 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. True, but we are just getting started... |
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Vogon_Glory
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Wed Jun-09-04 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
31. I'm Growing Increasingly Doubtful... |
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bacchant
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. They're not here, they're not coming |
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GiovanniC
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Wed Jun-09-04 08:12 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. An Alien Ship Will Approach |
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chelsea0011
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:22 AM Response to Original message |
33. Won't. We are all alone here. |
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Jose Diablo
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
34. I don't think there will be contact |
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LibLabUK
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Wed Jun-09-04 08:30 AM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Isn't this similar to solipsism? n/t |
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Jose Diablo
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:21 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I don't know, whats solipsism, let me look it up n/t |
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Jose Diablo
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #41 |
49. No solipsism isn't what I mean |
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BiggJawn
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
35. Never. "They" are avoiding us like the Plague. |
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neebob
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
36. I don't know |
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misanthrope
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Wed Jun-09-04 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
37. As soon as... |
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Skidmore
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Wed Jun-09-04 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
38. Jeepers, I thought we already had!! |
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AngryAmish
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Wed Jun-09-04 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
40. We must crush them |
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JimT
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
48. If it happens |
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NewJeffCT
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
51. Probably, but not in our lifetimes |
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Pobeka
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Thu Jun-10-04 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
60. We have to learn how to listen first. |
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Tigermoose
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Thu Jun-10-04 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
61. Consider that advanced forms of energy might not be possible. |
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