"Are We Alone?" The Great Debate

Would be awesome with a recording.
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I want to know whether do seti have found some important find?

50 years of SETI - no signs of life out there. What a waste of time.
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If we are alone, it will be an awful waste of space.

Then why are you here?
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If there were no other intelligent life in the near infinity of space, then we should not be here either!!!
That would mean that the marvels of the cosmos would be irrelevant with no intelligence to observe it.
Maybe the "creator" realised this and made sure that life could come about to appreciate his works?

Even if we do find a message from the beyond, conversation is going to be somewhat difficult with a time-lag delay each way of at the very least 10 light years!! That's within the Milky Way Galaxy.

Outside the Milky Way we are looking at a 20,000 year wait for an answer to any question sent to the next nearest galaxy!!!

Keith

thank you~

Do you know there is a spaceship in moon~?that is interest..~

50 years of SETI - no signs of life out there. What a waste of time.

If there were no other intelligent life in the near infinity of space, then we should not be here either!!!
That would mean that the marvels of the cosmos would be irrelevant with no intelligence to observe it.
Maybe the "creator" realised this and made sure that life could come about to appreciate his works?

Even if we do find a message from the beyond, conversation is going to be somewhat difficult with a time-lag delay each way of at the very least 10 light years!! That's within the Milky Way Galaxy.

Outside the Milky Way we are looking at a 20,000 year wait for an answer to any question sent to the next nearest galaxy!!!
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Much, much longer: we’re something like 30,000 LY from the centre of our own Galaxy. The nearest large galaxy to us, M31 in Andromeda, is over two million LY away; IIRC even the Magellanic Clouds, small galaxies that the Milky Way is in the process of chewing up, are about 150,000 LY from here.
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Odysseus

Thanks for correcting my time/distances.
I new that my figures were "at least" those i quoted, but had not delved that deeply when compiling my message.
Your revelation makes my observation that it is even more improbable, although I do not think there can be anything less probable than infinitely improbable!!!

So, following on the "creator" supposition, it seems we have to conclude that we are denied any contact with other intelligences (outside the Milky Way Galaxy anyway), as they will not have evolved to that stage by the time any message might reach us, and it seems that we are certain not to be able to marvel at any other intelligence, but only to ponder on our own development, and reluctantly being forced to conclude that the end of the Solar System may well precede the arrival of any message from elsewhere reaching us at the speed of light!!! All the intelligences may well be concurrently doing their own SETI thing, but by the time that all the messages start reaching any suitable destinations, the sending intelligence will have ceased to exist!!!

It will also be ironic that any message received, will be certain to be from a source that has long since ceased to exist!!! Maybe our SETI task is comparable to a making a forlorn search for an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh still being alive today in order to have two way conversation!!! But let's keep trying.

Keith

Totally off topic, yet not. But am I alone in having einstein@home not work. I keep getting an error about the graphic screensaver, and this shuts down my Boinc until it changes projects. I know this is SETI site, and I will re-post on their board too, I was just curious if there were more experienced people who have also had a problem w/einstein?
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