Since the guy assumes so much about colonization being so similar to human needs/wants I'd have a question for him. If his theory is right, why we as humans haven't sent probes yet to our closest stars? (Voyager I and II don't really count because they were sent just "out there" with no actual destination). How about sending probes to the Barnard star system or Proxima/Alpha Centauri, Vega, etc.? Maybe another civilization doesn't care just as much.
Not sure I follow, Andromeda is a different Galaxy over 2 million years away... we're talking about colonizing the Milky Way, our galaxy, which diameter is much smaller than the distance from us to Andromeda.
Btw, The Guardian sucks, as pretty much all British newspapers... it's more about the gossips than the news.
This too has already been address by Stephen Baxter (google him or search on amazon for his books), Rasmus Bjoerk idea is nothing new and very limited too.
Mr. Rasmus Bjoerk either tried to reinvent the wheel or stole the idea from Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. Baxter's gave one of the best plausible colonization scenerios in his books, I recommend them to any avid Sci-Fi reader who doesn't know Baxter yet (he's a physicist and an engineer and he surely knows his stuff).
Whatever Bjoerk said, it's already been said, and in better words, by Baxter.
I bet that Sci-Fi cancelled the show and then realized that the episodes left were not enough to end the Ori saga... hence the movies.
Meanwhile I already watched some of SG-Atlantis new episodes, they're available on the net.
You didn't know that?
I don't know in the U.S. but I learned that in 2nd grade in Italy, so I find the above line in the article to be a little too "obvious"
Rumor about the new series as been going on for over a year now, with some hints of that being based in a new galaxy (not the Milky Way, nor the Pegasus Galaxy). We'll see...
>I'm starting to feel very lucky to have grown up in the Milky Way Galaxy."
And why is that? Your galaxy has one too, puny human!
>Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged
eHM... That's supposed to be 400 MILLION light years, not 400. The nearest Galaxy, Andromeda, is 2 million light years away.
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This is nitpicking on semantics, totally useless. Discuss the idea, not the grammatical implications.
Since the guy assumes so much about colonization being so similar to human needs/wants I'd have a question for him. If his theory is right, why we as humans haven't sent probes yet to our closest stars? (Voyager I and II don't really count because they were sent just "out there" with no actual destination). How about sending probes to the Barnard star system or Proxima/Alpha Centauri, Vega, etc.? Maybe another civilization doesn't care just as much.
Not sure I follow, Andromeda is a different Galaxy over 2 million years away... we're talking about colonizing the Milky Way, our galaxy, which diameter is much smaller than the distance from us to Andromeda. Btw, The Guardian sucks, as pretty much all British newspapers... it's more about the gossips than the news.
This too has already been address by Stephen Baxter (google him or search on amazon for his books), Rasmus Bjoerk idea is nothing new and very limited too.
Mr. Rasmus Bjoerk either tried to reinvent the wheel or stole the idea from Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. Baxter's gave one of the best plausible colonization scenerios in his books, I recommend them to any avid Sci-Fi reader who doesn't know Baxter yet (he's a physicist and an engineer and he surely knows his stuff). Whatever Bjoerk said, it's already been said, and in better words, by Baxter.
I bet that Sci-Fi cancelled the show and then realized that the episodes left were not enough to end the Ori saga... hence the movies. Meanwhile I already watched some of SG-Atlantis new episodes, they're available on the net.
You didn't know that? I don't know in the U.S. but I learned that in 2nd grade in Italy, so I find the above line in the article to be a little too "obvious"
Rumor about the new series as been going on for over a year now, with some hints of that being based in a new galaxy (not the Milky Way, nor the Pegasus Galaxy). We'll see...
Language barrier though, but hopefully one day I'll overcome that.
>I'm starting to feel very lucky to have grown up in the Milky Way Galaxy." And why is that? Your galaxy has one too, puny human! >Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged eHM... That's supposed to be 400 MILLION light years, not 400. The nearest Galaxy, Andromeda, is 2 million light years away.
Corretion, I wrote 3rd it was actually the 10th.
... the news arrived to /. as well. The US Navy has retired the Tomcat last March 3rd !!!!