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Yupster

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48. I just finished reading that
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 07:47 PM
Jun 2018

Really good new info and the author is a really good writer. Kept me interested the whole way through.

His conclusion that the dinosaurs were still at their peak when they died out was sobering. And that after a 100 million year run.

When you ask someone who believes in wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #1
Gamers would say, "Obviously, we're going to have to level up!" yallerdawg Jun 2018 #5
Not a gamer so you have me a bit confused wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #22
In order to reach us, they WOULD have to be tens of thousands of not Blue_true Jun 2018 #78
It's not much of a paradox from my perspective. hunter Jun 2018 #2
All one of them? LanternWaste Jun 2018 #3
This planet has seen many disruptive species come and go. hunter Jun 2018 #6
Other than some microorganisms, most species go extinct jberryhill Jun 2018 #7
Agree and disagree MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #23
"time travel is simply not possible in this universe." EX500rider Jun 2018 #42
Why bother with relativistic speeds? hunter Jun 2018 #46
Warped space zipplewrath Jun 2018 #101
Maybe the dominant civilizations of this galaxy are highly evolved plant-like species... hunter Jun 2018 #102
Death Stars zipplewrath Jun 2018 #104
I've always maintained that something is only "not possible" until someone DemocraticSocialist8 Jun 2018 #103
That's idiotic. They just don't want us to know they're out there... lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #4
No, the government keeps covering them up jberryhill Jun 2018 #8
The authors of the study are aliens; their mission to throw us off the trail. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #9
Clever jberryhill Jun 2018 #14
Silliness. How much of the universe have we observed? Not much. brush Jun 2018 #56
Yes, that seems to be gaining ground. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #60
Yeah, the claim is laughable. Blue_true Jun 2018 #80
That wasn't the claim, although the headline writer seems to think so. Mariana Jun 2018 #112
It is laughable. Blue_true Jun 2018 #116
If they know we are here and can reach us. Blue_true Jun 2018 #79
Maybe we're about as interesting to them as cockroaches are to us. Crunchy Frog Jun 2018 #90
Yeah, maybe. Possibly they have concluded that we are not worth their time. nt Blue_true Jun 2018 #95
"No intelligent life down there ...next planet...?" lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #100
Reptilians live among us and have an orange skin color bronxiteforever Jun 2018 #10
"...in the observable universe." kysrsoze Jun 2018 #11
Time and technology is a major factor here. haele Jun 2018 #21
Agree. There is so little we know or can see from our vantage point. kysrsoze Jun 2018 #33
+1 BannonsLiver Jun 2018 #55
Yeah I tend to agree. EX500rider Jun 2018 #43
Or we aren't able to imagine non-carbon based life mythology Jun 2018 #12
That's simply not true jberryhill Jun 2018 #19
What do you think about the recent exboyfil Jun 2018 #26
I just read it, very interesting JoeOtterbein Jun 2018 #36
Oh brilliant. Blue_true Jun 2018 #81
There are intelligent beings in the universe Turbineguy Jun 2018 #13
A wonderful novel by Cixin Liu, called The Three Body Problem, postulates enough Jun 2018 #16
I tend to agree with that also.. EX500rider Jun 2018 #44
I don't get the "paradox" in the first place-- it's like asking Columbus why he couldn't... TreasonousBastard Jun 2018 #15
The interesting thing is that exboyfil Jun 2018 #17
We drew the Powerball lottery ticket jberryhill Jun 2018 #20
You got that right exboyfil Jun 2018 #25
I have often wondered if maybe most planets where animal life develop never get beyond StevieM Jun 2018 #32
That has been speculated on as well exboyfil Jun 2018 #35
I just finished reading that Yupster Jun 2018 #48
I edited my post. I think you know what I had meant to write. StevieM Jun 2018 #62
I think any alien ecosystem exboyfil Jun 2018 #63
There are numerous findings in the opposite direction. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #40
Nice response exboyfil Jun 2018 #41
Obviously science is endangered right now. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #50
I think there may be life out there but SonofDonald Jun 2018 #18
One problem with every probe we send out is fuel is exhausting. Blue_true Jun 2018 #85
they'll just be dead cold metal things SonofDonald Jun 2018 #97
life is tough on type 13 planets 0rganism Jun 2018 #24
If what we got going on is considered "advanced civilization," please stop the planet... malchickiwick Jun 2018 #27
Kind of a stretch to call us advanced get the red out Jun 2018 #28
I would never have gussed there were this many skeptics Runningdawg Jun 2018 #29
Since when is the probability of extra-terrestrial intelligent life a political issue? jberryhill Jun 2018 #30
Political? Runningdawg Jun 2018 #34
I think Carl Sagan has been mugged exboyfil Jun 2018 #37
You're confusing arrogance with skepticism BannonsLiver Jun 2018 #54
Calling one viewpoint "wrong" is rather pointless, given that we have no evidence Oneironaut Jun 2018 #83
Intelligent species would run the other way from our madness... BlueJac Jun 2018 #31
You know what you do when you find a wasp's nest exboyfil Jun 2018 #38
Time is the key variable regarding this. Saboburns Jun 2018 #39
The human strain is around 13 million years old. Blue_true Jun 2018 #86
Which is sort of depressing Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2018 #45
In other words... We're the first. We need to start acting like it. ck4829 Jun 2018 #47
Thinking we're the first and only is silliness beyond belief. brush Jun 2018 #57
I'm just going with the research in the moment, we may not be the only civilization ck4829 Jun 2018 #58
Depends on what you define as "the observable universe" jberryhill Jun 2018 #67
Get to the point. Do you believe Earth is the only place in the universe/multiverse with life? brush Jun 2018 #69
I have no reason to believe either way jberryhill Jun 2018 #70
So many words to say you're not sure. brush Jun 2018 #71
I don't know why you feel the need to be insulting jberryhill Jun 2018 #72
I don't get why a simple answer takes so much...oh never mind. brush Jun 2018 #73
People are different jberryhill Jun 2018 #74
Not so. Blue_true Jun 2018 #88
From all practical points. Blue_true Jun 2018 #87
You may have a point the way we're plowing thru the planet... brush Jun 2018 #96
Actually the OP says the we are likely the only civ in the Milky Way galaxy (in the text)... Persondem Jun 2018 #99
That really is a terrible headline, isn't it? Mariana Jun 2018 #113
I don't think it is fair to say that it is anti-science to consider the possibility that we are StevieM Jun 2018 #106
At one time the Earth was thought to be flat and the Sun revolved around it. brush Jun 2018 #107
That's exactly my point. People just thought they knew the truth even though they were StevieM Jun 2018 #108
And for the musical explanation, Staph Jun 2018 #49
Self replicating probes could potentially travel forever. rickford66 Jun 2018 #51
It seems to fail to factor in the possibility of interstellar and intergalactic travel gulliver Jun 2018 #52
I call bullshit. triron Jun 2018 #53
I know! yallerdawg Jun 2018 #59
When? jberryhill Jun 2018 #68
For thousands of years and it has not stopped. triron Jun 2018 #92
So if you see something and don't know what it is... jberryhill Jun 2018 #111
The paper actually says "30% chance of being the only intelligent life in this galaxy" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 #61
We went from Sagan's notion of probability-based certainty... yallerdawg Jun 2018 #65
We are intelligent? OldEurope Jun 2018 #64
The most interesting thing, I think, is that we are not observing MineralMan Jun 2018 #66
Maybe the only way to travel to other parts of the universe is to actually leave the universe StevieM Jun 2018 #76
True, and vice-versa, an alien viewing our planet from millions of light-years away would see Oneironaut Jun 2018 #84
The thing about you MM. Blue_true Jun 2018 #91
Actually, observations of stars very near us are good. Blue_true Jun 2018 #93
That's fine. Don't want to be right next door to the Klingons meadowlander Jun 2018 #75
Wow, what a bold statement. Blue_true Jun 2018 #77
It's faith based reasoning either way jberryhill Jun 2018 #82
The amount that we know about our own Galaxy is but a tiny speck. Blue_true Jun 2018 #94
The point is... yallerdawg Jun 2018 #98
I think that sounds idiotically provincial. Crunchy Frog Jun 2018 #89
If we don't stop climate change then we will never have the tools to search for anything StevieM Jun 2018 #105
No. The planet's gone through much more dramatic climate change than this. Crunchy Frog Jun 2018 #109
You might want to read this article. StevieM Jun 2018 #110
Here's a simpler way to look at the problem. The_jackalope Jun 2018 #114
Nuclear power. (eom) StevieM Jun 2018 #117
I don't consider us an advanced civilization. roamer65 Jun 2018 #115
They watch us and say DiverDave Jun 2018 #118
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