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im sure there's some hyper advanced civilization that can fold space or whatever and one enterprising individual will warp in here and turn earth and humanity into a novelty pet store
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Roosevelt posted:im sure there's some hyper advanced civilization that can fold space or whatever and one enterprising individual will warp in here and turn earth and humanity into a novelty pet store good Orville ep
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Mar 12, 2021 19:50
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pointsofdata posted:Imagine just detecting it though. What would that do to society? we have a ton of evidence that climate change will directly kill hundreds of millions of people and that fact is doing nothing to society so i think detecting a transmission from an alien civilization will probably also do nothing.
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Improbable Lobster posted:i wonder if we'll ever see what's under europa's ice in my lifetime the dream of space exploration died as soon as it was the boomers turn to start paying for it
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pointsofdata posted:Imagine just detecting it though. What would that do to society? Are there any short stories about us detecting something like the arecibo message. I feel like it has the potential to be super frustrating as well as cool. you’d get a whole bunch of people declaring it fake immediately and then it becomes a political ideology and now we have space fascists that don’t believe in aliens
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Mar 12, 2021 19:57
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Sweevo posted:the dream of space exploration died as soon as it was the boomers turn to start paying for it
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Sweevo posted:the dream of space exploration died as soon as it was the boomers turn to start paying for it
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Mar 12, 2021 20:00
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space is big space is dark it's hard to find a place to park burma shave
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Mar 12, 2021 20:03
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rotor posted:we have a ton of evidence that climate change will directly kill hundreds of millions of people and that fact is doing nothing to society so i think detecting a transmission from an alien civilization will probably also do nothing. what if you can monetize the alien message though.
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Mar 12, 2021 20:06
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indigi posted:what if you can monetize the alien message though. well then yes obviously that would fundamentally change humankind
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Mar 12, 2021 20:11
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Chris Knight posted:space is big
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Mar 12, 2021 20:13
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Chris Knight posted:space is big https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJkYNoE2_u4
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Fart Sandwiches posted:That's also assuming a right-now timeframe. Given the billions of years that have elapsed it could be intelligent life has sprung up, we just missed them by a billion or so years. well yes but that doesn't really matter from the point of view of saying "the universe is full of intelligent life" which is usually said by people trying to wish it into existence mind you just finding ruins would be mindblowingly incredible - but that's much less likely without some kind of massive interstellar transport program
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Mar 12, 2021 20:51
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mediaphage posted:well yes but that doesn't really matter from the point of view of saying "the universe is full of intelligent life" which is usually said by people trying to wish it into existence you sound like an internet atheist
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Mar 12, 2021 21:25
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you sound like an internet pagan. what are we talking about here
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Mar 12, 2021 21:26
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I sound like a goose Honk honk
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indigi posted:you sound like an internet pagan. what are we talking about here an outspoken know-it-all
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:I sound like a goose I'm alium
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pointsofdata posted:Imagine just detecting it though. What would that do to society? Are there any short stories about us detecting something like the arecibo message. I feel like it has the potential to be super frustrating as well as cool. no, sadly this is completely unexplored in fiction
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Mar 12, 2021 21:30
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There was like a 3 day period where we thought we detected a Dyson Sphere, before someone came up with a better explanation for the data. No one really cared.
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TOOT BOOT posted:There was like a 3 day period where we thought we detected a Dyson Sphere, before someone came up with a better explanation for the data. No one really cared. nobody actually thought that was a Dyson swarm
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Mar 12, 2021 21:44
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indigi posted:nobody actually thought that was a Dyson swarm it took long enough to rule out a dyson swarm that it reached the mainstream news
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Mar 12, 2021 21:53
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Carthag Tuek posted:no, sadly this is completely unexplored in fiction I was asking for examples of that specific thing, not suggesting it doesn't exist
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Mar 12, 2021 21:55
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haveblue posted:it took long enough to rule out a dyson swarm that it reached the mainstream news yes but the astronomers who seriously thought it might be a dyson swarm are likely in the single to low double digits some sites still point out that it could be such a construction despite the light spectra pretty conclusively disproving it
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Mar 12, 2021 21:56
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pointsofdata posted:I was asking for examples of that specific thing, not suggesting it doesn't exist Contact by Carl Sagan is about this. there's both a novel and a film!
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Mar 12, 2021 22:04
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mediaphage posted:yes but the astronomers who seriously thought it might be a dyson swarm are likely in the single to low double digits I’d bet that the number of astronomers who gave it more than a 10% chance at any point is zero. like even the most optimistic alien-wanters knew it was very unlikely at best
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Mar 12, 2021 22:42
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indigi posted:I’d bet that the number of astronomers who gave it more than a 10% chance at any point is zero. like even the most optimistic alien-wanters knew it was very unlikely at best i’d agree
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pointsofdata posted:I was asking for examples of that specific thing, not suggesting it doesn't exist i know, im just being a jerk Glorgnole posted:Contact by Carl Sagan is about this. there's both a novel and a film! but yeah most of Contact is about how humanity reacts to the signal, various schools of thought, etc
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also,haveblue posted:it took long enough to rule out a dyson swarm that it reached the mainstream news you say that as if the news dont regularly report poo poo that was disproven decades ago
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watching commando and getting contact zooted just by watching
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canada gooses are alien invaders
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Glorgnole posted:Contact by Carl Sagan is about this. there's both a novel and a film! yeah charlie sheen was great in that
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deeply fascist movie but drat if it isn’t fun
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:yeah charlie sheen was great in that rofl i was like wait what is he in that? i dont remember that at all so i googled, and welp: 
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i watched contact again recently and it's kind of quaint. the in-universe fox news talking point is that the message must be from god, and the big argument is whether it's appropriate to build the machine to talk to god in the first place, and then whether they should send jodie foster, an atheist, to represent humanity. i feel like if it took place today, fox news would be saying in total seriousness that the machine is george soros' gay ray and turning it on will invert everyone's genders and make your babies come out muslim and blow up santa claus. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Mar 13, 2021 06:20
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so i finally decided to watch better call saul after not getting pulled in the first time it rules the lawyer that bob odenkirk is up against is named rich wanker lmao
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Mar 13, 2021 06:26
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Sagebrush posted:i watched contact again recently and it's kind of quaint. the in-universe fox news talking point is that the message must be from god, and the big argument is whether it's appropriate to build the machine to talk to god in the first place, and then whether they should send jodie foster, an atheist, to represent humanity. the got the christian suicide bomber part right at least lol
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Mar 13, 2021 06:31
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Sagebrush posted:the message must be from god, and the big argument is whether it's appropriate to build the machine to talk to god in the first place this premise could make a pretty great sci fi (or fantasy I guess) story itself. seems like something Ted Chiang would probably write
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Achmed Jones posted:so i finally decided to watch better call saul after not getting pulled in the first time it's an incredibly slow burn and everyone i've recommended it to has bounced off. but it's the best tv show on the planet
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