Intelligent life does exist on other worlds but we will never communicate with them.

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

1. The speed of light and the vastness of the universe won’t allow it.

2. If Proxima Centauri b had intelligent life and we were able to directly communicate with them, it would take at a minimum 8 years to ask them a question and receive an answer. 40 years for a 5 question convo.

3. And let’s say there is a more technological advance civilization that’s let’s say 200 light years away. The first signal powerful enough to travel into space has only been traveling for 114 years so they wouldn’t know we existed for another 86 years.

4. the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light for a reason. Intelligent life like us is simply a random set of chemical reactions that are meaningless compared to the rest of the universe. We are no more significant than a spec of dust in the kiper belt or a random charged particle that hits the earths atmosphere.

 

[Ghost_In_A_Shell]

fukk that. I'm just trying to envision the conversation that we are going to have when they notoriously say 'show me to your leader'.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Thats assuming faster than light travel isnt possible. Which may be wrong. Its just a matter of energy. A civilization needs to control the power of a sun or more. And then possibly could open up a stargate

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Thats assuming faster than light travel isnt possible. Which may be wrong. Its just a matter of energy. A civilization needs to control the power of a sun or more. And then possibly could open up a stargate

Light photons and all the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum have a speed limit. That's already been proven. You cant change how fast light travels. Gravity can bend it, but it doesn't increase its speed.

Any radio waves or light signals another civilization gives off will only travel at the speed of light.

What you're saying would require a device that can speed up light traveling towards us, and then push out signals faster than light.


If a signal is 100,000 light years away traveling towards us, we still wouldn't know it existed.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Light photons and all the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum have a speed limit. That's already been proven. You cant change how fast light travels. Gravity can bend it, but it doesn't increase its speed.

Any radio waves or light signals another civilization gives off will only travel at the speed of light.

What you're saying would require a device that can speed up light traveling towards us, and then push out signals faster than light.


If a signal is 100,000 light years away traveling towards us, we still wouldn't know it existed.

Who cares about signals. Who cares about spaceships. Im saying open a stargate and just walk through it like the movies



Intelligent life probably rarely does talk to eacho but it wouldnt take some Von Neumann probes very long to "seed" the whole galaxy.


Von Neumann proved that the most effective way of performing large-scale mining operations such as mining an entire moon or asteroid belt would be by self-replicating spacecraft, taking advantage of their exponential growth.[1] In theory, a self-replicating spacecraft could be sent to a neighbouring planetary system, where it would seek out raw materials (extracted from asteroids, moons, gas giants, etc.) to create replicas of itself. These replicas would then be sent out to other planetary systems. The original "parent" probe could then pursue its primary purpose within the star system. This mission varies widely depending on the variant of self-replicating starship proposed.

Given this pattern, and its similarity to the reproduction patterns of bacteria, it has been pointed out that von Neumann machines might be considered a form of life. In his short story "Lungfish" (see Self-replicating machines in fiction), David Brin touches on this idea, pointing out that self-replicating machines launched by different species might actually compete with one another (in a Darwinistic fashion) for raw material, or even have conflicting missions. Given enough variety of "species" they might even form a type of ecology, or – should they also have a form of artificial intelligence – a society. They may even mutate with untold thousands of "generations".

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Closest we're getting to Warp or FTL speed, so far.

Warp Drive - Is Warp Drive Possible? | NASA Working On Warp Drive

 

[num123]

I chuckle when people from our times claim to know what is possible given where we are on scientific level. There have been many things over the thousands of years that people said were impossible when it was only impossible to them at the time.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

1. The speed of light and the vastness of the universe won’t allow it.

2. If Proxima Centauri b had intelligent life and we were able to directly communicate with them, it would take at a minimum 8 years to ask them a question and receive an answer. 40 years for a 5 question convo.

3. And let’s say there is a more technological advance civilization that’s let’s say 200 light years away. The first signal powerful enough to travel into space has only been traveling for 114 years so they wouldn’t know we existed for another 86 years.

4. the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light for a reason. Intelligent life like us is simply a random set of chemical reactions that are meaningless compared to the rest of the universe. We are no more significant than a spec of dust in the kiper belt or a random charged particle that hits the earths atmosphere.

Try to communicate with Apophis brehs

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

We ain't eva communicating with Aliens. We probably have a better chance finding out if theres life after death first.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Barely intelligent life on this planet

 

[Joe Sixpack]

These are the kinda threads I expect to read in Higher Learning

 

[Outlaw]

1. The speed of light and the vastness of the universe won’t allow it.

2. If Proxima Centauri b had intelligent life and we were able to directly communicate with them, it would take at a minimum 8 years to ask them a question and receive an answer. 40 years for a 5 question convo.

3. And let’s say there is a more technological advance civilization that’s let’s say 200 light years away. The first signal powerful enough to travel into space has only been traveling for 114 years so they wouldn’t know we existed for another 86 years.

4. the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light for a reason. Intelligent life like us is simply a random set of chemical reactions that are meaningless compared to the rest of the universe. We are no more significant than a spec of dust in the kiper belt or a random charged particle that hits the earths atmosphere.

Have you ever heard of Quantum Entanglement?

 

[Smoking With Cigarettes]

fukk that. I'm just trying to envision the conversation that we are going to have when they notoriously say 'show me to your leader'.

Imagine intelligent life making contact but Trumps still president

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Have you ever heard of Quantum Entanglement?

Yeah but that's irrelevant.

At the end of the day, contact with intelligent life realistically would need to come on a 20 to 40 light year radius. The radius of our longest radio wave signal is 114 years. And keep in mind the signal gets weaker the farther it travels.

We should've picked up something by now if an advanced civilization was within that range. So either the radius is hundreds of light years at a minimum and their signature hasn't reached us yet, any complex organisms and beings on a planet within that 20 to 40 light year radius isn't technologically advanced or any technologically advanced civilization that's in the radius left or went extinct

 

[Outlaw]

Yeah but that's irrelevant.

At the end of the day, contact with intelligent life realistically would need to come on a 20 to 40 light year radius. The radius of our longest radio wave signal is 114 years. And keep in mind the signal gets weaker the farther it travels.

We should've picked up something by now if an advanced civilization was within that range. So either the radius is hundreds of light years at a minimum and their signature hasn't reached us yet, any complex organisms and beings on a planet within that 20 to 40 light year radius isn't technologically advanced or any technologically advanced civilization that's in the radius left or went extinct

How is that irrelevant? Quantum Entanglement proves faster than light communication can exist