For the time being we are very much alone
And possibly just alone. Chances of life like ours on another planet minor. Within talking distance no hope. We are just a minor blip in time and will be long gone before any similar life forms realise we were here. Perhaps in several million years a distant civilisation will pick up Eastenders Omnibus edition and conclude we were all fucktards who wasted a fine planet.
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And possibly just alone. Chances of life like ours on another planet minor. Within talking distance no hope. We are just a minor blip in time and will be long gone before any similar life forms realise we were here. Perhaps in several million years a distant civilisation will pick up Eastenders Omnibus edition and conclude we were all fucktards who wasted a fine planet.
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At just a hundred light years away our radio signals are so diffuse that trying to decipher them against background noise would be prctically impossible.
I've heard it would be like trying to pick up the waves from a pebble dropped the Atlantic at New York with measuring equipment located on the West coast of England, so I doubt anyone will be picking up Eastenders at 7 million light years, which is really a lot more than a hundred.
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I've heard it would be like trying to pick up the waves from a pebble dropped the Atlantic at New York with measuring equipment located on the West coast of England, so I doubt anyone will be picking up Eastenders at 7 million light years, which is really a lot more than a hundred.
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Wouldn't the repetitive nature of TV soaps
strengthen the signal?
Also if it ever gets there they may conclude humanity has been driven to extinction by careless driving and suicide.
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strengthen the signal?
Also if it ever gets there they may conclude humanity has been driven to extinction by careless driving and suicide.
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Yet I'm reliably informed that if a butterfly in America flaps its wings, I will be blown off my feet in Britain by the storm it produces.
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I dunno, judging from the measurable variables required for life...
And the sheer size of universe, intelligent life should not only be likely but common.
Close enough to contact, though: that's the problem.
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And the sheer size of universe, intelligent life should not only be likely but common.
Close enough to contact, though: that's the problem.
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I was kind of just repeating what I saw on telly and what that Brian Cox bloke said
Seems that with water around basic single cell type life forms would be very likely and common. Something unexplained happened here in that those single cells suddenly started developing into more complex life in a very very short space of time.
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Seems that with water around basic single cell type life forms would be very likely and common. Something unexplained happened here in that those single cells suddenly started developing into more complex life in a very very short space of time.
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