Posted on 02/02/2016 1:30:21 AM PST by LibWhacker
I have a few original ideas that need a good writer.
Freepmail me if interested.
the problem with spreading terraforming across the cosmos is the amount of materials you’d have to drag along. this makes it almost prohibitive.
that being said, it’s possible ‘seed pods’ could be sent out, pods that would find a suitable location and start the process.
of course, it’d be very wasteful to spew seed pods across the universe, hoping they might find a suitable planet.
instead, the builders would probably use the gate system to transport the seed pods to planets found to be suitable by the cheaper, more expendable, searcher drones.
Could "seed pods" be transported by comets?
Can’t be these guys, SG-1 killed them all.
Jaffa Kree
If there is life on other planets around stars in some other galaxy, I bet they say exactly the same thing.
One can only hope.
Is all life carbon-based, here on Earth ?
since a comet is nothing more then a rock moving thru space.. then yes, the pods could hitch a ride on an guided rock.
still not very efficient and leaves the chance of the comet splashing down in a star or a planet outside the ‘goldilocks’ zone, thereby resulting in a failed planting
As far as I’m aware.
We might not yet recognize life other than carbon-based, especially if its dynamics are very slow — appearing unchanging to us over a human lifespan or even human history.
I don't know, we've got some pretty alien life forms here on Earth.
You raise a key point.
Making contact requires two parties existing at the same time. And that may the difficult part. Depending on how you manipulate the various factors of the Drake Equation, you may get a few dozen to a thousand or more. The problem is that, even if each civilization has a time frame of ten million years from rise to collapse and they occur sequentially, the total time for 1000 is 10 billion years in a universe that is already 16+ billion years old. Since, as Carl Sagan said, there are “millions and millions and billions and billions,” there is a strong likelihood that there may never be more that two or three civilizations at any one time that are capable of interstellar space flight and they may all be in different galaxies. There will be long periods were there is only one or perhaps even none.
Then there is the “Great Filter.” I’ve attached a pretty good article that explains the concept.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox_b_5489415.html
A majority of seeds that are given off by plants fail to grow.
Or an opportunity for the human race to expand outward on the grandest of all scales...
If there isn’t “anyone” else out there does that mean it’s all potentially ours? Just come and get it?
We’re so preoccupied with the concerns of life here on Earth and there’s a universe to be colonized...
We’re so preoccupied with destroying life here on Earth.
We do have a couple of ‘pets’ running around on Mars.
Ever wonder why we don’t have any on the Moon, which is like closer than an electron to it’s nucleus. ?
"Speaking precisely, the Drake equation is literally meaningless, and has nothing to do with science. I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses. The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science.Which, of course is utter drivel. Michael Crichton should have stuck to writing pop novels and not ventured into passing judgement on the validity of mathematical equations and their role in science, which he clearly did not understand.
The Drake Equation is drivel masquerading a science.
How many of the terms in the equation are knowable within three orders-of-magnitude?
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