Comments on: A SETI Infographic

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rockettheme promo code 2013 — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 05:34:54 +0000

How do we know these aliens are going to be friendly and just show up, give us cool technology but otherwise leave us alone? How do we know they won’t be hostile? Is broadcasting earths location really that smart of an idea? Isn’t SETI a possible threat to national security that should be shut down?

By: Edwin

Edwin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:46:02 +0000

You seem to imply Aliens need our dollars.

By: Simple Man

Simple Man — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:11:58 +0000

I wish SETI would still be funded. I don’t think you’ll find anything, but heck, space is cool and life is cooler. There are no aliens, never were and never will be. Humans are the most important, most special, in the cosmos and that is simply because we are made. We are no accident and whether we were spoken into existance by the mere words of a Creator or via evolution it doesn’t matter. The stars and the planets are there to give us awe and inspire humilty and respect for that creator.

By: Paul Panza

Paul Panza — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:24:23 +0000

Earth has already made contact with numerous aliens. It is the governments of the world that do not recognize the fact or cover-up their own verified contacts. Here is a wonderful site: http://www.theyfly.com/ At this location you can learn about different star cultures that are trying to up grade Earth humanities low spiritual cultivation in a non-religion style.

By: Rohvannyn

Rohvannyn — Sat, 07 May 2011 09:36:17 +0000

Nice infographic. If anyone is interested in some new approaches to low cost space flight (I promise you it’s different than what you’ve seen), feel free to head over to http://spacelane.webs.com. It’s rather interesting, and the blog is updated every week. I too agree that SETI should have more funding, and so should the entire space program. The benefits to humanity are incalculable, and they only begin with the technological advances. If humanity is so wonderful and important, why do we persist in putting all of our eggs in one basket?

By: Microcosmologist

Microcosmologist — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:53:32 +0000

It is a pipe dream alright. Paul Allen, the man whom the telescope array is named after, said it was (I paraphrase because google can’t seem to find it) ‘the most outside of outside chances’. Carl Sagan, the best science pitchman who ever lived, sold him on the idea. But IS it a pipe dream….? About the likelihood of life: toss some hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor into a flask, shake vigorously, shock it a bunch of times, and BOOM! Proteins and nucleic acids which self-replicate… LIFE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xly_5Ei3U

Add 4 billion years of evolution and you have creatures as smart (or as dumb) as us! Take out the C-T extinction event, and it might happen a lot sooner. So life is easy to start building. It’s just really far away. And the habitats are abundant: 500 million planets in the “goldilocks zone”, not to mention moons. The most likely spots in our own solar system for other life are not the other planets, but their moons… Titan, Europa, Triton. The universe is vast, and surprisingly accommodating. To not listen for other life would be like sticking our fingers in our ears and yelling “LA LA LA LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA”

By: Microcosmologist

Microcosmologist — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:28:46 +0000

consider that it will definitely not be rockets that take us out of the solar system…. and maybe through communication, if we made the right friends, they might loan us the hardware to meet up someplace.

By: Microcosmologist

Microcosmologist — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:27:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing this!!! :-)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 07 May 2011 02:13:35 +0000

I think SETI is a waste if we don’t have a means to communicate or even travel, put more money into VASIMIR and more research into even better rockets before we go back to SETI.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 07 May 2011 02:12:02 +0000

“Fermi Paradox-Wikipedia

The fundamental problem is that the last four terms (fraction of planets with life, odds life becomes intelligent, odds intelligent life becomes detectable, and detectable lifetime of civilizations) are completely unknown. We have only one example, rendering statistical estimates impossible, and even the example we have is subject to a strong anthropic bias.”