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SETI: Breakthrough Initiatives (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=293501)

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 11611296)

If an alien intelligence has faster then light travel capabilities they wouldn't be mining planets for resources.

Genetic material might be the most valuable resource there is...

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 11611331)

Genetic material might be the most valuable resource there is...

Uh.... Easy to synthesize. Nyet.

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Originally Posted by Xanathol (Post 11610591)

Hawking - proof that people will label a glorified comic book writer as a genius if you hang a handicap sticker around their neck.

:spock:

:shake:

This reminds me of this little documentary. Very cool stuff.

Alien Planet
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Originally Posted by Dave Lane (Post 11610083)

We can't even find any here.

Your best post EVAH!:clap:

This one is interesting, too.

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 11611331)

Genetic material might be the most valuable resource there is...

Then the trash can next to my computer desk is a veritable gold mine.

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Originally Posted by CrazyPhuD (Post 11611283)

Think about it....what would have happened if some 'benevolent' species came and saved the dinosaurs from extinction(excluding time lords of course). Would we even be hear today? Likely not....our ancestors would have been toothpicks for T-Rexes.

It's tough to say, really. We could have driven them to extinction by hunting them or hunting their prey.

Bigger question:

If we find them, are they Chiefs fans????

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 11610560)

There's a school of thought that discovery of an outside civilization might be the thing that finally motivates us all to get along with each other.

Personally I doubt that. I think the thing that really divides us is wealth - race, religion and the rest are just bread and circuses; carefully engineered and managed artificial social structures - and outside intelligence would just be another avenue to exploit for profit.

But it might also help us all see each other as humans. Although that's a bit too wide-eyed optimist for me.

Have you ever read Left Hand of Darkness?

Spoiler!

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...-1Ep3A.twitter

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NASA will host a news teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Thursday, July 23, to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.

The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years -- another Earth.

The briefing participants are:

-- John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington

-- Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California

-- Jeff Coughlin, Kepler research scientist at SETI Institute in Mountain View, California

-- Didier Queloz, professor of astrophysics at Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission to detect Earth-size planets orbiting distant stars in or near the habitable zone -- the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since confirmed more than 1,000 planets and more than 3,000 planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances, including those in the habitable zone.

Questions can be submitted on Twitter during the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.

The teleconference audio and visuals will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information about NASA's Kepler mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

yeah - not gonna happen.

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Originally Posted by oldandslow (Post 11610531)

Not to me. 'Dominant, more tech advanced civs tend to always take over those that are not as advanced in tech or greater population.

I think the first nations in the US can attest to that fact.

Andrew Jackson moved my ancestors from GA to OK (Choctaw). How could he do that? Better tech and more people.

After the Little Big Horn, my wife's people were practically obliterated from the face of the planet (Lakota). How did the US military do that? Better tech and more people.

I say all that to say this - If we make ourselves noticeable to a highly technological, warlike culture who are looking for resources or new colonies...well it's over for us.

:clap:

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Originally Posted by Xanathol (Post 11610591)

Hawking - proof that people will label a glorified comic book writer as a genius if you hang a handicap sticker around their neck.

Look at you. Look how ****ing dumb you are.