L. Marcus Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 Mike Hopcroft, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 Unless every past civilization got to our current level of civilization and blew themselves up. Pessimistic, I know, but I think someone else has already raised this idea before. Something like this is a common theory for why we have not encountered alien life: Intelligent Life is likely. They just tend to kill themself somehow between Karda 0 and 1. Runaway greenhouse effect, nuclear war, biological war, all the other stuff we can do already to wipe intelligent life out on our planet. That could just as well happen during Karda 1 and 2 of course. It could be that the agressive hunter tendencies you need to get to intelligent life are what makes creating a Kradesh 1 and 2 civilisation impossible. Maybe we just are in the universe* where every species blows itself up before it get's too Kardesh 1 and 2? *In an infinite number of paralell universes, there should be one in wich a Karda 2 civilsiation is possible. Nobody said it had to be our universe where that happens. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 What are they going to announce on Monday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 There will be a supermoon lunar eclipse tomorrow. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/25/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-super-moon-need-to-know/72790162/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 Sad remains of the Soviet Buran program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 What are they going to announce on Monday? A major finding about Mars is going to be revealed, but no details have been given. Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 They have probably struck Melange. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 They have probably struck Melange. I'm betting on a smooth, glossy, black obelisk. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 I bet that whatever we expect it is, it'll be something else. Lucius Alexander I would love it to be a palindromedary, but I don't expect that tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 There will be a supermoon lunar eclipse tomorrow. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/25/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-super-moon-need-to-know/72790162/ Some pics in case you missed it. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34375868 Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Here's the news about Mars: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/28/9408645/nasa-mars-water-flow-discovery-proof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Liquid water on Mars? I'll drink to that! Lucius Alexander I never expected them to find a palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Not sure if that water is fit for human (or palindromedary) consumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Extremophiles!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Not sure if that water is fit for human (or palindromedary) consumption. It might be a bit to salty for that. Still it increases the chance for finding life on mars from 0 to bigger then 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 "Nothin' into nothin', carry the nothin' ..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 New ion thruster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Not sure if that water is fit for human (or palindromedary) consumption. We'll make it fit... Lucius Alexander The palindromedary consumes that with a grain of salt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 Concept for Martian colony Launching from Spaceport America More exciting news than liquid water on Mars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 New ion thruster? Okay, the guy develops a new Ion Thruster. One that is again more suited for automatic probes then human travel (as all Ion Thrusters). One that can also run on any conductive material, not just noble gasses. Basically a "space diesel". And he is named Patrick Neumann? I wonder if the universe is trying to tell us something here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 Growing circles on comet 67P ... wom ... wom ... wom ... L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 Plib. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 Spotting Vesta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Protect Earth from alien microbes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Protect Earth from alien microbes Horsepuckey. Yes, transmission between planets (especially between Earth and Mars) could well be possible. If it is possible then it has been going on for billions of years and we're doing fine anyway. In fact, the concern, really, is whether Earth life has contaminated other worlds, and whether Earth life hitchhiking on our robotic explorer craft could do the contamination too. (That, BTW, is a real concern that has been discussed for a long time.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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