/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4753930

>white dwarf
>doesn't involve a small star

>that feel when the unique life snowflake fags leave after being proved to be illogical and destroyed

>>4077887


http://www.damninteresting.com/space-radio-more-static-less-talk/

we can be reasonably confident that some fraction of the 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 star systems in the visible universe are home to radio-sending species.

Radio waves can even be detected by our kinds of instruments up to 20 LY away easily, and we don't have very large arrays (no pun intended) that are as large as another intelligent species' radio listeners that really was into space signal receiving.

(sources for that info: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610377))


>Show that this is 'very very likely'. Also as a tangent I'd like to point out we haven't 'conquered' the space age.

With extremely conservative theoretical equations we can come up with a number of 1.4 other intelligent species in our galaxy RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT, at around our tech level or past it, and by conservative I mean, It uses only 1% of planets with liquid water and such will develop life, when in reality it's most likely closer to 100%, so far it IS 100% as far as we know. And then it's reduced further by only 1% of those being able to create intelligent life. When really intelligent life is most likely going to emerge at some point after billions of years, so it's more like 100% of planets that last long enough with the above properties.
>Show that is is easy

Again, you're implying things I don't mean. It's not easy at all. but we're most likely not the MOST advanced civilization at making rocket engines out of billions. Go figure.

>I implied that just because something is theoretically possible does not mean it will ever happen.

Perhaps, but read above, we might be on the cusp of a breakthrough in propulsion technology. Even if no one in all of the billions of civ's managed to make propulsion faster then us, there would still be probes and ships and failed missions and trillions of intelligent space junk flying around, which could get to other star systems.

>>3964603

>gill jobs

>>3819136