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Intergalatic Travel Anon 04/7/2009(Sat)08:12:48 No.99816

If it faster than light travel as easy as in sci fi is possible and there are many advanced civilizations in universe much older than we are them why they are not everywhere? They should be in the Earth, Moon, Mars, terraformed Venus, and some moons of giant planets for thousand of years.
Since they are not this means that travel in space is not easy (take too long), too expensive, or there aren't so many advanced civilizations around.

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Anon 04/7/2009(Sat)08:16:23 No.99821

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For me, advanced civilizations are very rare and they aren't interested in long space travels (too much energy that could be better used in their own solar system)

Anonymous 05/7/2009(Sun)07:28:58 No.101302

Maybe other spacefaring civilizations have some kind of "noninteraction"-agrement regarding the earth and the like of civilizations. We are rather violent.

Anonymous 05/7/2009(Sun)07:57:28 No.101328

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>>101302
Compared to them we are as advanced as ants.

When you build a house do you care if there is an anthill there?

picture related, it is a argentine ant empire (if you take one of them from Chile and put it with Eropeans argentine ants they will do just fine)

The Happyness Machine the final annihilator of civilisations Anonymous 17/12/2009(Thu)04:23:55 No.426959

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I remember that I once read a very interesting theory about the cosmic silence:
Every species is optimized by evolution to reproduce, so all motivation has a reproductive root, everywhere in the universe.
That means as soon as somebody has the ultimate fucking machine, the civilisation breaks down. What I mean is a virtual reality total-immersion technology like brain/computer interfaces.
Basically they all become gamers in their own virtual reality and are no longer interested in the universe.
Of course, civilisations need more than just gamers to work, so they just vanish.

Anonymous 06/2/2010(Sat)09:37:20 No.487489

>>99821

Your picture is incorrect, they will realize, as we do, that there is a delay between what they see and what we are currently watching.

Anonymous 06/2/2010(Sat)09:40:39 No.487492

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>>101328

It is likely they seeded this planet with rudimentary organisms and let evolution run it's course to produce a creature best suited to this planet: Us.

Why would we have to resemble them, we would only have to advance through evolution like every planet does.

If we didn't, or the planet was unsuitable for evolution to produce advanced life....it's no big loss for them.

Anonymous 06/2/2010(Sat)09:41:20 No.487494

>>487492

Anonymous 06/2/2010(Sat)09:44:34 No.487498

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>>487492

Start thinking and planning on a scale of time that is millions of years, not lifetimes.

It would be much easier to seed a planet and let that planet develop and seed 1 other or 2 other planets, in order to spread intelligent life, than to go there yourself, with the limits the lifespan.

The bloom of this "viral" campaign would be much faster than light travel.

Anonymous 06/2/2010(Sat)09:55:44 No.487539

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>>487498

Another concept that I personally think is more likely is that generally speaking each planet that can support life eventually creates and starts the evolutionary process...

And, that most of the Universe is within a certain age range (AROUND US), and evolution being a LAW of nature, occurs and approximately the same pace on all the similar aged planets, so AROUND US, so that in our section of the Universe we're all (of the planets capable of it) are developing at about the same pace...so we're all at about the same technological age, give or take a million years...(which is really close)

Anonymous 09/2/2010(Tue)06:46:15 No.491995

>>487539

The problem is that our current Science has really good Evidence that Fully Matured Galaxies have been around for as soon as less than 1 Billion years after the big bang. That would give other species a 12 Billion year + head start on us. It is absolutely possible that a species came to our current level of technology 12 Billion years ago. The range of prediction for the Evolution of a species 12 Billion years ahead of our own is astounding.

In fact our own Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to be 13 Billion years old, as old as the current estimates for our Universes age. That means that life could have evolved BILLIONS of years ahead of our own inside our own Milky Way Galaxy!

Anonymous 09/2/2010(Tue)07:14:15 No.492053

Or to put it in a way that actually makes sense. there are untold billion stars. If one tenth of one percent of each of those stars has a habitable planet. and 1/1000'th of those potential habitable planets gave rise to life. and if say 1/100 of those life bearing planets gives rise to intelligent life....and if..say. Half of those make it out into space?

There are more habitable planets out in the universe than anyone could possibly care about. So why try to terriform shitty little balls like mars.

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