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PSBuckshot said:
ewenm said:
PSBuckshot said:
I'd like to know what everything looked like before the universe was created.
Can't even begin to imagine anything at all.
Sounds like you've got it right. Unknowable is as good as it gets for "before" the big bang.Can't even begin to imagine anything at all.
I find it frustrating that we know so little.
sooooooo - if we are only seeing light now from stars (N light years away) - which of course we are........that means those stars are much much older than they were when that light was emmitted. If a % of those infinite number of stars have a finite number of habitable planets associated, which is reasonable to assume........
Anyone else find it incredible that no other inhabited planets have evolved enough to travel here yet? I mean, the vastness of it is unfathomable......from a mathematical equation alone all possibilities should be covered.......so why not..........?
Is earth one of the older planets, associated with one of the older stars, and therefore more evolved planets with intelligent life simply don't exist yet? That can't be so......?
That's the bit I find hardest to understand........why are we still alone? Or at the very least.......why have we not even picked up a signal of some sort?
Anyone else find it incredible that no other inhabited planets have evolved enough to travel here yet? I mean, the vastness of it is unfathomable......from a mathematical equation alone all possibilities should be covered.......so why not..........?
Is earth one of the older planets, associated with one of the older stars, and therefore more evolved planets with intelligent life simply don't exist yet? That can't be so......?
That's the bit I find hardest to understand........why are we still alone? Or at the very least.......why have we not even picked up a signal of some sort?
Edited by RacerMDR on Tuesday 10th January 17:01
qube_TA said:
Because if super-luminal speeds aren't possible, and wormholes, dimensional jumps etc aren't either then to get here from there would take an impossibly long time to do.
Everything is just too far away and getting further away all the time.
based on our science............surely if you gave us a few million light years of evolution we could come up with something? Everything is just too far away and getting further away all the time.
Or do you believe we are doomed to never find any 'neighbours' ever?
callyman said:
If there were aliens in our nearest galaxy Andromeda at 2.5 million light years away(our nearest galaxy, it would take them longer than 2.5 million years to come to earth travelling at the speed of light!!!
when you put it like that.......makes my question sound daft...... 
ok, ok, it was daft
Let's hope faster than light speed can be achieved.......somewhere, by someone at sometime
I don't think we will have to look as far as another galaxy for life. When there are between 200 billion-400 billion stars in our own galaxy.
With roughly 7,000 being visible, our own galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, I don't think we should be thinking of other galaxy's when we don't know anything about our own!
With roughly 7,000 being visible, our own galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, I don't think we should be thinking of other galaxy's when we don't know anything about our own!
FeatherZ said:
I don't think we will have to look as far as another galaxy for life. When there are between 200 billion-400 billion stars in our own galaxy.
With roughly 7,000 being visible, our own galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, I don't think we should be thinking of other galaxy's when we don't know anything about our own!
I bet there is life. They are just in the same boat as us about the length of time to travel anywhere and can't be arsed. With roughly 7,000 being visible, our own galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, I don't think we should be thinking of other galaxy's when we don't know anything about our own!
RacerMDR said:
sooooooo - if we are only seeing light now from stars (N light years away) - which of course we are........that means those stars are much much older than they were when that light was emmitted. If a % of those infinite number of stars have a finite number of habitable planets associated, which is reasonable to assume........
Anyone else find it incredible that no other inhabited planets have evolved enough to travel here yet? I mean, the vastness of it is unfathomable......from a mathematical equation alone all possibilities should be covered.......so why not..........?
Is earth one of the older planets, associated with one of the older stars, and therefore more evolved planets with intelligent life simply don't exist yet? That can't be so......?
That's the bit I find hardest to understand........why are we still alone? Or at the very least.......why have we not even picked up a signal of some sort?
No, not at all, because the overlapping of their civilization, our civilization, the distance between thewm, and us, and thew billions of other places they could visit, it is not a surprise at all. Anyone else find it incredible that no other inhabited planets have evolved enough to travel here yet? I mean, the vastness of it is unfathomable......from a mathematical equation alone all possibilities should be covered.......so why not..........?
Is earth one of the older planets, associated with one of the older stars, and therefore more evolved planets with intelligent life simply don't exist yet? That can't be so......?
That's the bit I find hardest to understand........why are we still alone? Or at the very least.......why have we not even picked up a signal of some sort?
Edited by RacerMDR on Tuesday 10th January 17:01
philis said:
Eric Mc said:
philis said:
How far is the the Kessler Run, and how long is 12 parsecs?
You won't get anywhere in the science forum if you don't know what a parsec is Good explanation here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
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