1) Message boards : News : Android Version Checking (Message 1645364) Posted 22 Feb 2015 by gpuller20001014 Post: It says on the Google store that the Android 5 compatible app has been released, is that old?

2) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI@home in the News (Message 1574145) Posted 19 Sep 2014 by gpuller20001014 Post: Is it just me or has some one else noticed that we occupy a VERY small space in the earth's 4.5 billion year history. I don't know how to put this in perspective, but it is a very long perspective if I can. Human civillisation on earth has been theoretically obsrvable for about the last 50 to 100 years. That's 50 to 100 of the last 4.5 billion years. If searching for intelligent life were a lottery the odds of finding it would be long in the extreme. Perhaps a civilization that has been observable for 1,000 years would be found more easily - maybe not. The odds in that case would not be much better. Finding intelligent life is similar to state lotteries in another respect - multiple drawings, or games over time. All planets in our galaxy did not come into existence 4.5 billion years ago, they are probably constantly being formed and destroyed as a natural part of stellar evolution. So this would mean another factor would be how long aliens were 'online' and when. We could miss them by a million or a billion years. I'm sure life is plentiful in the universe, but I think advanced and intelligent life is very rare.

 
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