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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 21, 2015 20:00:45 GMT -5
Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 21, 2015 20:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 21, 2015 20:01:44 GMT -5
On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they're calling Breakthrough Listen.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 21, 2015 20:11:13 GMT -5
It would be good to know if there's life out there.
It would be idiotic to try and contact it, unless we're VERY sure it's less advanced than we are.
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 21, 2015 20:19:34 GMT -5
Oh it exists, we all hope they would be friendly.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 22, 2015 10:33:06 GMT -5
Oh it exists, we all hope they would be friendly. There is no proof life exists anywhere else, regardless of probabilities. So you can't assert this credibly. If they're not friendly, we're truly screwed. Idiotic movie plots notwithstanding, it's extremely unlikely we can upload a virus to their computer from one of ours.
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 22, 2015 10:40:21 GMT -5
Lets say it's probable, with 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone. I have NO doubt we will find life in short term, the goal is speeding up now. And IMHO, it's here already, yes Govts cover it up.
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 22, 2015 10:52:17 GMT -5
The world is being preped for disclosure, a slow lead up to minimize the shock. Why NASA’s top scientist is sure that we’ll find signs of alien life in the next decade Is there anyone out there? The answer is almost certainly yes, a top NASA scientist said this week. The search for alien life has long since shifted from a question of whether it exists to a question of when we'll find it. And NASA's chief scientist Ellen Stofan predicted this week that the answer could come within the next decade. "I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years," Stofan said at a panel on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/08/why-nasas-top-scientist-is-sure-that-well-find-signs-of-alien-life-in-the-next-decade/
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 22, 2015 12:43:02 GMT -5
NASA's top scientist is sure we'll find life because publicly asserting that is part of his goal: to cozen money from the Federal government. I fail to see the general public benefit we gain from spending a lot of Federal dollars on this hunt.
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 22, 2015 12:44:27 GMT -5
only the most important and profound discovery in human history, yea it's worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 13:30:18 GMT -5
There's life out there Jim, but not as we know it.
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Post by husagafella on Jul 22, 2015 14:05:03 GMT -5
only the most important and profound discovery in human history, yea it's worth it. I'm with you on this one Champ. Ignore the naysayers, all the men of great vision have had to deal with them throughout history.
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