He's the maintainer, he has the power, he uses it. Show me the guy who wouldn't put in some of their own stuff and their own views. I would, and so would 99.9% of people.
I never claimed to hold the ultimate knowledge there. Those are my opinions and I enjoy my view and I know I would be excited to hear that there had been, once, long ago, something other out there.
But, until then, I find the thought comforting that if there ever was something out there (and the window of contact doesn't exclude that), we might never know.
God knows there are enough problems and I think we could put resources like that to a better use. Terraforming like it's been done on tiny scale with the Eden project, something like that.
I find that more interesting than going on an extraterrestrial archeology trip.;)
I can't believe that people are still looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, hooing to make contact one day.
Stanislaw Lem once described the window of contact as the tiny amount of time in a planet's life that an intelligent life form has to evolve far enough to create enough noise around their planet that will be picked up as non-static background noise, until its civilisation dies the entroy death.
Even if we picked up something now, it would only be a tiny flicker of something that existed millions of years ago, with no hope of us ever meeting whoever created this glimpse of order in the chaos of the universe.
We are alone out there. Confined by the same rules that hold our universe together into a tiny section of space and time. The best we can hope for is to become nomads, travelling to near systems in the hope of making them inhabitable when this sun gives out. If we haven't fallen into the ashes until then.
Weren't people told to grow hemp and marijuana to help with the war effort in WWI? Mind you, that was for ropes and clothes, you can't fight a war stoned...
Hmmm, now there's an idea.
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He's the maintainer, he has the power, he uses it. Show me the guy who wouldn't put in some of their own stuff and their own views. I would, and so would 99.9% of people.
Confined into a tiny section of spacetime, by the same rules that hold our universe together.
Better? ;)
But, until then, I find the thought comforting that if there ever was something out there (and the window of contact doesn't exclude that), we might never know.
God knows there are enough problems and I think we could put resources like that to a better use. Terraforming like it's been done on tiny scale with the Eden project, something like that.
I find that more interesting than going on an extraterrestrial archeology trip. ;)
I can't believe that people are still looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, hooing to make contact one day.
Stanislaw Lem once described the window of contact as the tiny amount of time in a planet's life that an intelligent life form has to evolve far enough to create enough noise around their planet that will be picked up as non-static background noise, until its civilisation dies the entroy death.
Even if we picked up something now, it would only be a tiny flicker of something that existed millions of years ago, with no hope of us ever meeting whoever created this glimpse of order in the chaos of the universe.
We are alone out there. Confined by the same rules that hold our universe together into a tiny section of space and time. The best we can hope for is to become nomads, travelling to near systems in the hope of making them inhabitable when this sun gives out. If we haven't fallen into the ashes until then.
Weren't people told to grow hemp and marijuana to help with the war effort in WWI? Mind you, that was for ropes and clothes, you can't fight a war stoned... Hmmm, now there's an idea.