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2088987 No.2088987 [Reply] [Original]

To SETI,

There are only two possibilities. One, there is intelligent life out there, but it’s so far away you’ll never contact it in your lifetime. And two, there’s nothing out there but noble gases and carbon compounds, and you’re wasting your time. In the meantime, you won’t be published, you won’t be taken seriously, and your career will be over before it’s begun.

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>> No.2089006

>>2088987
The end justifies the means.

That is all.

>> No.2089008

"The chances that anything is coming from Mars are a million to one.", he said.

>> No.2089009

>>2089006
That doesn't make sense.

>> No.2089014

so there's a 50% chance of intelligent life and a 50% chance that there's nothing

>> No.2089025

>>2089008

You win the War of the Worlds quoting award.

>> No.2089027

>>2089009
If we find anything, then we get the biggest I-TOLD-YOU-SO party ever.

>> No.2089045

>>2089027
Oh, and everyone's still invited. We're not mean.

>> No.2089051

>>2089045
>implying ET will be benevolent

>> No.2089068

>>2089051
>implying having some telescopes to find it will change it either way
Seriously, all we know is that it will have incomprehensible psychology. Probably.

>> No.2089306

>>2089045
I'm down for a first contact party.

Just as long as it doesn't coincide with my end of the world party.

(Yes, I'm holding an end of the world party with a countdown to 0 like on new years with the celebratory cheer being along the lines that the 2012 folks suck balls and fail at life)

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2089322

You're not thinking 4th dimensionally

>age of the universe
13.6 billion years
>period of time that humans have been transmitting radio waves
60 years
>possible time until we invent a better way of transmitting information other than radio waves
lets say another 100 years

so we not only have to find a planet with intelligent life, we also have to hit that 160 year window in 13.6 billion years. not good odds.

>> No.2089448

>>2089322

>age of the universe
>13.6 billion years

Wrong. Infinite. The universe has neither beginning nor end. The Big Bang is just religion disguised as science.

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>>2089448

>> No.2089598

>>2089448
>Wrong. Infinite. The universe has neither beginning nor end. The Big Bang is just religion disguised as science.

According to quantum physics the entire physical universe is the secondary byproduct of a primal information which is more fundamental than gravity, electro-magnetism and two nuclear forces, to put it in a more biblical term, "In the beginning there was a word, and the word was made flesh, and dwelt to become the known universe."