Excuse me ... but could you just cut out all this erudite and polite discussion and eventual agreement please? It's not what we come to this forum for.
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El Barbudo wrote:Excuse me ... but could you just cut out all this erudite and polite discussion and eventual agreement please? It's not what we come to this forum for.
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El Barbudo wrote:Excuse me ... but could you just cut out all this erudite and polite discussion and eventual agreement please? It's not what we come to this forum for.
Yes, Mr. Barbudo. I have to say I'm inclined to agree, sir. I will of course comply with your request just as soon as I've analysed it more thoroughly.
Rock God X wrote:I now understand what you were trying to say, but I'm still a little confused as to the point you were trying to make in saying it. Doesn't it go without saying that it's easy to make an argument in favour of any preposterous position, provided that it's not a particularly strong argument?
Yes. I suppose if there is a point it is that there are few such preposterous positions that are put so often or defended so strongly (however irrationally) as this one.
Isn't it a bit like saying that it's easy to play chess, as long as you don't mind losing all the time? A bit, except people that lose all at chess all the time tend to know they're doing so.
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rover49 wrote:Don't forget, we are seeing some of these planets as they were thousands, if not millions of years ago, so they may be as different now as earth is compared to the dinosaur era.
The furthest away we have so far been able to find is only about 20.000 light years, but the point isn't quite that. IF we ever get a signal from taht planet, then it was sent using technology those aliens had 20,000 years ago. Which would suggest that they are scarily more advanced now.
Of course, once we develop the technology to see planets million of light years away,we may find an early-Earth clone, but irritatingly would be unlikely to ever know whether intelligent life developed similarly there as here, and whether there are aliens at a similar stage of evolution similarly looking at the discovery of a planet orbiting Sol and wondering the same thing.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:By the way, if you're interested in the huge number of exoplanets discovered to date, have a looky here: http://exoplanetology.freebase.com/
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:By the way, if you're interested in the huge number of exoplanets discovered to date, have a looky here: http://exoplanetology.freebase.com/
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