No, the argument being made is that any race interested in survival beyond the limited resources of a a single plant should have colonized every single habitable space in the galaxy by now
Maybe life on this planet is the result of a colonization initiative? If evolution is a process that always inevitably moves toward sentience, it would be far more economical to send out a multitude of genetic material capsules through interstellar space. Eventually some of those capsules are attracted to life-supporting gravity wells...
This only works if "aliens" don't care about the fact that their culture is lost through the process... or maybe culture also evolves similarly towards the inevitable conclusion that we must also launch panspermia capsules, ensuring that life persists in the universe.
Not sure if it would be an effective honeypot... you still have to be home, or have someone watching it, all the while making sure your home looks like there's no one in it.
And you don't even know if your home will be targeted by a thief.
Now if those subscription home surveillance systems actually worked instead of being scams, it might work...
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If the Chinese factory used regular screwdrivers, the workers would steal them all the time for home use.
That is why there are proprietary screws on Apple products.
I upload them to 4chan, from where they will be stored on a multitude of /b/tards' harddrives forever.
by using clones!
a secret cow level
Pfft. We had to detonate our own bigbangs.
Throw in Lohan as a plaything, she's too cracked out to even notice these days...
She'll notice when she runs out of crack
It's more like a billion billion percent
A quintillion percent. /fixed for you
UVB-76 has been broadcasting new stuff the past few days...
You mean "figuratively".
http://xkcd.com/725/
If they are all in the same basket, not at all.
Wait, even DUBAI banned them as intrusive.
What do you expect from a country that bans blackberries.
So she's a vampire, too? Cool.
Nah, just a fat goth
In a dry ice storm!
This already has the western theme, mod to add spaceships and viola!
For a true space opera experience!
No, the argument being made is that any race interested in survival beyond the limited resources of a a single plant should have colonized every single habitable space in the galaxy by now
Maybe life on this planet is the result of a colonization initiative? If evolution is a process that always inevitably moves toward sentience, it would be far more economical to send out a multitude of genetic material capsules through interstellar space. Eventually some of those capsules are attracted to life-supporting gravity wells...
This only works if "aliens" don't care about the fact that their culture is lost through the process... or maybe culture also evolves similarly towards the inevitable conclusion that we must also launch panspermia capsules, ensuring that life persists in the universe.
Do you know how long it's been since "tin foil" actually used tin? :-)
Only idiots buy aluminium foil to make "tin foil" hats.
Smart brain-control-avoiders use lead foil.
from "It only does everything" to "It no longer does everything"?
if he beat the record set for the Tron arcade game...
Virgin Galactic is going to need some space-stewardesses...
it's the spammers who dont deserve IT, not the limpies.
Not sure if it would be an effective honeypot... you still have to be home, or have someone watching it, all the while making sure your home looks like there's no one in it.
And you don't even know if your home will be targeted by a thief.
Now if those subscription home surveillance systems actually worked instead of being scams, it might work...
Earth's 'sweet spot' is occupied by, well, Earth, and little else
Has anyone looked at the Farside of the Sun, though?
Plus you have private companies.
I think we'll be fine
I'm kinda concerned about Weyland-Yutani's business practices though
Um, check your calendar?