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Eleazar 06-26-2017 07:32 AM
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While Zurbuchen's statement back at the April meeting does sound pretty tantalising when taken out of context, what he (and others in the scientific community) are actually excited about is the advances we've made in our ability to search for extraterrestrial life - not any specific piece of evidence.
Ok then

Lzen 06-26-2017 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 12931788)
so if we sent a message today, traveling at the speed of light, to a planet and it has the capacity to receive and decipher it, how long would that take? (of the known planets that MAY have the capacity for life) :D
The TRAPPIST 1 system is about 39 light years away. It would take at least 78 years for them to receive and send back a signal. Keep in mind that we've been broadcasting radio signals for over a century.

Check out this.
http://zidbits.com/2011/07/how-far-h...ed-from-earth/

Lzen 06-26-2017 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12931783)
Zurbuchen's testimony starts around the 39 minute mark -

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FlZVlEHmMBw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
That was fascinating. I actually watched most of their presentations.

Rain Man 06-26-2017 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 12931967)
The TRAPPIST 1 system is about 39 light years away. It would take at least 78 years for them to receive and send back a signal. Keep in mind that we've been broadcasting radio signals for over a century.

Check out this.
http://zidbits.com/2011/07/how-far-h...ed-from-earth/
Interesting. I kind of figured that might be the case, but you could fit my knowledge of electromagnetics inside the curve of a sine wave.

gblowfish 06-26-2017 09:57 AM
They've come in search of Chuck Berry records...

Rausch 06-26-2017 10:01 AM
Nothing that can happen only happens once...

notorious 06-26-2017 10:17 AM
If we sent a radio signal when the Chiefs last won a Super Bowl.......

Rausch 06-26-2017 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 12932113)
If we sent a radio signal when the Chiefs last won a Super Bowl.......
If your time frame is in thousands of years, then, yes.

If your time frame is billions...

bevischief 06-26-2017 11:01 AM
Anal probes for everyone.

tooge 06-26-2017 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 12931967)
The TRAPPIST 1 system is about 39 light years away. It would take at least 78 years for them to receive and send back a signal. Keep in mind that we've been broadcasting radio signals for over a century.

Check out this.
http://zidbits.com/2011/07/how-far-h...ed-from-earth/
If we do connect, and they have artists, they will be trapeze artists

Rausch 06-26-2017 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 12931967)
The TRAPPIST 1 system is about 39 light years away. It would take at least 78 years for them to receive and send back a signal. Keep in mind that we've been broadcasting radio signals for over a century.

Check out this.
http://zidbits.com/2011/07/how-far-h...ed-from-earth/
All this is based on our current ideas of how to travel and through what medium.

Compare land, sea, or air travel to only 200 years ago.

Now consider that very few nations even travel in space and even fewer travel any real distance.

It will take us centuries to maintain stable living conditions on Mars.

Hell, we won't even be considered out of the crib until we can travel beyond our own solar system, and to be honest, thousands of civilizations around us could have tried and field just as we are likely to...and we'd never know.

DaFace 06-26-2017 11:20 AM
I kind of hate that "Anonymous says (or does) XXXX" is a thing. Anonymous is a loosely-affiliated set of a bunch of "anonymous" hackers, so that phrase is basically the equivalent of "A random hacker says (or does) XXXX."

I'd be thrilled if there was evidence of this, and you never know, but adding "Anonymous" to it doesn't make it credible in any way.

O.city 06-26-2017 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 12932191)
All this is based on our current ideas of how to travel and through what medium.

Compare land, sea, or air travel to only 200 years ago.

Now consider that very few nations even travel in space and even fewer travel any real distance.

It will take us centuries to maintain stable living conditions on Mars.

Hell, we won't even be considered out of the crib until we can travel beyond our own solar system, and to be honest, thousands of civilizations around us could have tried and field just as we are likely to...and we'd never know.
It's always crazy to me when looking at the sheer size of this stuff. The lanikai superclusters of Galaxies is crazy

Fish 06-26-2017 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 12932196)
I kind of hate that "Anonymous says (or does) XXXX" is a thing. Anonymous is a loosely-affiliated set of a bunch of "anonymous" hackers, so that phrase is basically the equivalent of "A random hacker says (or does) XXXX."

I'd be thrilled if there was evidence of this, and you never know, but adding "Anonymous" to it doesn't make it credible in any way.
Agreed.

DJ's left nut 06-26-2017 11:23 AM
I love this article

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

The basic thesis is a hell of a hook - "We're rare, we're first or we're ****ed..."


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