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Science - It's life Jim but not as we know it...

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  1. Treble

    Treble Keyser Söze

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    Can you lot take this **** and fck off back to the corona thread. Bunch of ****s <doh>
     
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    This is primarily a function of money availability to the research sector.

    When abundant, you get more "pure" / "blue sky" research
    (which may lead to nothing, or truly epic discoveries) .
    When tight, you have pressure to "deliver results" .

    For example : the mighty Bell labs.

    In abundance, you got Claude Shannon, the laser etc.
    In drought, you got the climate that made set for the
    Jan Henrick Schon scandal (which still resonates strongly
    nearly 20 yrs later) .
     
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    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    you mean like when Andrew Wakefield took lots of money from a drug company and then posted a fraudulent study in The Lancet that linked their competitors product to autism?
     
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  5. Treble

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    They didn't predict this? What about the other, larger meteorites.

    They really should've thought about putting some lasers on the thing.
     
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    <laugh>

    Nearly $10 billion down the drain. Thankfully it's minor damage, and still exceeds expectations.
     
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    They did predict this, the problem with putting something in the Lagrange point is that there's where all space debris gets trapped. They built in redundancies expecting damage from space debris.
     
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  8. Treble

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    I still want lasers.
     
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    I'd love that to be the case.

    Imagine if we found intelligent alien life form exists somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

    They know we exist, we know they exist but unless we discover warp speed we'll never meet each other.
     
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    I think the solution at this moment in times is with another species showing us how to create warp speed, but as they've not made contact with us yet, we're fooked. Either that or they think we taste nice, and they turn earth into human farm planet, where we are bred to feed their species.
     
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    You're such a bloody pessimist <laugh>
     
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    <laugh>

    Logic just dictates it mate, think of everything on Earth, everything is eaten by another thing, in one form or another, so why should those life rules change in space. If something is out there, it needs a means to survive, hopefully it's not a glutonous want of human meat - although I must be pass my sell-by date now.
     
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    Sadly you're probably right. Even if they wanted to share their tech with us, they'd have to figure out how to communicate with us first. That itself could take millions of years, they might as well think fck it let's just eat them instead. <laugh>
     
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    Logically the best thing to do with any species that may one day be competing with you for resources is to wipe them out before they can compete as equals with you.

    Rather than aliens give us warp drives, I think they'd more likely rather give us extinction.
     
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    They haven't given us extinction yet........we doing a fine job of that ourselves.......they can put feet up if they gotvthings called feet lol
     
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    No, but it probably takes a while to get here. The moment our first radiowaves hit the stars a nice big space weapon probably left Chiron beta prime to wipe us all out... Will just take a few millenia to get here. <laugh>

    I'm thinking if Cuba started developing nuclear weapons, wouldn't take America long to wipe out that government with "peacekeeping" forces. Earth could be some alien's Cuba.
     
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    If we came across a weaker alien life form, not an amoeba or single cell organism like Sucky but a complex self aware animal like a lion or elephant, would we wipe it out? Or even experiment on it while it was alive?
     
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    You need 2 separate human psychology issues from a race of species thousands of years of evolution infront of us tbf.....u r a bit stuck the current perception of what we see as possible
     
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