I visited the Philippines once and had a great time. The cuisine was excellent, and the staff were incredibly friendly and hospitable. Additionally, I went to “Corregidor Island” and the historic part of “Intramuros in Manila” , which was fascinating, particularly for anyone interested in WWII history. Without a doubt, I hope to return someday.
Prometheus
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From there you can conclude either that a) there are/have been already galactic civilizations, and they either are too far yet, have died or are ignoring us deliberatly. Or b) There has never been a civilization on the universe capable to expanding outside and colonizing other stars, due to the factors I listed above.
Exactly.
Ignoring us deliberately is most likely if they do exist.
Died… Possible. Even if we had colonies around every planet in our system, a GRB or Gamma Ray Burst 100 of light years away could take out an entire system if the beams are focused our way. But it is a small window in time between becoming space faring as we are just now and interstellar space faring as we will become in about 1000 year assuming no breakthrough in technology like warp drives. In a few 1000 years we ought to be immune to extinction.
Too far… I don’t like this premise. Given our growth rate, we ought to be in every star system in our galaxy in 10 million years. 10 million years is a rather short time in galactic history. Had the dinosaurs not been wiped out 65 million years ago, the raptors may in a few million years evolved intelligence required for space-faring. Had they done this 60 million years ago they ought to have reached every star in our galaxy assuming they could get to 1/2 of 1 percent the speed of light.
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Here’s a nice artice from one of the guys at SETI.
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Thanks for the link, I love articles like that.
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The question that he doesn’t talk about, but that the British scientist Stephen Hawking has mentioned is that, if there are aliens out there, we may not want to meet them.
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Only if a civilization had a finite existence or did not expand exponentially as humans do AND avoided contact. In 1000 years I don’t think it beyond reason to assume humans could achieve 1% the speed of light with robotic self replicating space ships carrying human DNA that could be defrosted and artificially incubated to start a colony around a new star system. In a matter of 10 million years humans would be around every single star in our galaxy. At least we know there are no expansionist civilizations any where in a galaxy near us. If these ships could replicate once every 10 years then in a matter of a century and a half there would be more ships than stars in the universe. At that rate of growth, in a few 1000 years there would be more ships than sub atomic particles in the universe so obviously the growth would reach a limit of the entire universe;s available materials would be converted into ships and humans given infinite speed
For all you know… that’s exactly how Earth Started.
Could you imagine??!?!
Maybe George Lucas was right, and all those events did happen a long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
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For all you know… that’s exactly how Earth Started.
Could you imagine??!?!
Maybe George Lucas was right, and all those events did happen a long time ago in a galaxy far far away…I think Battlestar Galactica had it better planned out… It has happened before, it will happen again!
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So Say We All!
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Saw the movie tonight and enjoyed it. It was rushed in places. But well worth the money.
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