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When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

I personally think that if we don't blow ourselves up in 50 years, then we'll probably discover them around 2070-2080. What do you think?

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

I think once they find out about us they're going to watch all of our alien movies and think we're looking for a challenge.

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

Or see things like the Jersey Shore and Act of Valor, and label us as we rightfully are: a primitive, war-loving species. They might be impressed with computing and music, though.

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

Quote:The Fermi paradox (Fermi's paradox or Fermi-paradox) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_parad...oretically

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

> implying humans are intelligent
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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

<implying that Carl Sagan, Aristotle, Einstein and millions more like them never existed

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

Well we sent out a probe a long ass time ago saying heres our coordinates were pretty primitive but you wouldn't take advantage of that?Right? Right? I mean when has the superior power taken over the smaller powers, never right? Right?
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No, they all died by the Bulgarian music we sent into space.
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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

This is how I imagine a alien space ship with uebertechnik flying by:

1. Hear Radio "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?!"
2. See TV Shows
3. See News with war and everything
4. Closely inspecting the habits of humans from far away
5. No thanks, better don't contact them, because if we do, and they get good enough at technology, they might just start enslaving the universe.

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

Who knows.They may be just militant as we are...


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They sent beetles music into space.
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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

Considering that these intelligent species will no doubt be many light years away, our chances of meaningfully interacting with them will be close to null.

Discovering primitive exotic lifeforms in subterranean Mars could be more probable, though! Cute microscopic alien critters are neat.

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

That's why I included the option of going beyond the scale of dozens to hundreds and even thousands of years. I remember listening to a Carl Sagan interview where he used the Fermi paradox to estimate that for each 1000 light years in the galaxy, there could be 4-5 intelligent species in that one area. If his
estimations are correct, then there are more
than 400-500 species of sapients in this galaxy
alone. It may take the effort of us not blowing
ourselves up and waiting a few centuries, but I'm certain that our cosmic brethren are only a short breath away in this vast universe.

With what you're saying about the microbes beneath Mars is probably true as well. Have you ever heard of Europa and Titan? Astrobiologists are going crazy over how earthlike these moons are.

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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

If we did manage to receive contact from an alien race any communications with them would have to span thousands, if not millions, of years. So, not so much star-spanning wars as simple mathematical formulas sent out. Trying to preserve our cultures and scientific advancements over that long of a time would be quite unlikely, but if we did, limited communication [as well as probable alien culture barriers] would make learning things abut them incredibly difficult.

I've heard some about Europa, but Titan's a viable candidate as well? A quick look at the wikipedia article [which doesn't look too defaced, so i guess it's reliable currently?] shows it to have a thick atmosphere and liquids on the surface, so wow, it really does look promising.

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Plus, it's supposed to have subsurface oceans via tidal heating like Europa, meaning that habitats of Earth-like and unique aquatic life could exist on the same world, completely isolated from each other.

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(03-27-2012 09:27 AM)SaintVicious Wrote:  They sent beetles music into space.

Quote:the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It is expected that her voice will be played in space for at least 60,000 years more.
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RE: When do you think we'll contact another intelligent species?

I'm thinking we'll sooner create our own synthetic life before finding or communicating with outside intelligent life, but I'd be hoping for some form of contact by 2030. It's entirely possible we are already under observation from beyond the stars, or perhaps from a totally different plane of existence entirely (different dimensions).

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(03-26-2012 01:52 PM)Mælstrom Wrote:  <implying that Carl Sagan, Aristotle, Einstein and millions more like them never existed

> implying that the top 5% of humanity is a good representation for the species.
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I'm of the opinion that it is possible, assuming such intelligent life exists. However, predicting the time of first contact is a fool's errand.

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(03-28-2012 07:05 AM)Weswammy Wrote:  I'm of the opinion that it is possible, assuming such intelligent life exists. However, predicting the time of first contact is a fool's errand.

I can understand what you're saying here, but I just put decades to show the advancement of technologies that could make finding a message possible, seeing as how SETI and other astronomers are only searching for radio waves and unusual patterns of light. Plus, if Fermi's theory is right, then we'll probably get a return call in a few centuries time.

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(03-28-2012 07:15 AM)Mælstrom Wrote:  
(03-28-2012 07:05 AM)Weswammy Wrote:  I'm of the opinion that it is possible, assuming such intelligent life exists. However, predicting the time of first contact is a fool's errand.

I can understand what you're saying here, but I just put decades to show the advancement of technologies that could make finding a message possible, seeing as how SETI and other astronomers are only searching for radio waves and unusual patterns of light. Plus, if Fermi's theory is right, then we'll probably get a return call in a few centuries time.

I wonder if the aliens have their own version of the E.T. movie and if Speilberg will want royalties when they contact us. That's the real question here.

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Its coincidental enough that Earth was able to sustain life. The odds of another planet being able to are slim

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We should bomb them
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I wonder what having sex with Alien women would be like...



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Efs lOOKIN' FOR ALIEN PUSSY
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(03-28-2012 05:20 PM)Efs Wrote:  I wonder what having sex with Alien women would be like...



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Bulgvar get the fuck out. I'm going to call on my weasel army to tear out your flesh if you don't stop shitposting.

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DEE-RAILED.

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