Posted on 07/04/2022 2:52:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Why would an advanced civilization engage in farming?
Carbon based life forms are most likely an intermediate step.
Shouldn't we just assume they play baseball and be looking for diamonds?;-)
That’s where Tang comes from.
Make it up as you go science.
Just in time to see it disappear here.
“ Why would an advanced civilization engage in farming?”
No one says all we’d possibly see is advanced civilizations. Conceivably we might discover cultures in the equivalent of the Middle Ages or the renaissance
Not at all. That a distant observer could infer this of Earth from a distance was proposed 50 years ago. The BIG "tell" about Earth is television and radar emissions.
Should, could, maybe, might, possibly, etc., etc.
Okie dokie.
Me thinks these “scientists “ are smokin dope.
The James Webb Space Telescope can see John Deere tractors 🚜 from that far away?
Impressive
And food sticks
I’m sure the Wright Brothers were considered insane by many people thinking they could attach wings and a engine and fly like a bird, the point is science advancement has happened because of many insane ideas that didn’t work but some did
But we’ll be looking back millions or billions of light years, so everything will be rather outdated and useless.
We’re alone, dudes. Deal with it.
It’s between you and the Lord God Almighty and the man Jesus Christ holds the keys.
Why do they believe life only works the same as ours here on the Earth? Couldn’t a different type of biochemical system have evolved somewhere else? I thought that given enough time, ANYTHING, even the most unlikely, happens.
I agree with Stephan Hawking that our signals (especially SETI) may be foolhardy messages to superior civilizations of hostile nature to come stomp us.
Just as mankind is presumptive to believe it's actions are permanently damaging Earth's atmosphere it presumes the concept of life solely belongs to carbon life forms. Too bad exploration has been curtailed and entrenched bureaucrats protect their fiefdoms declaring areas of science are "settled".
How would they get their food?
Only if extraterrestrials existed, other than in the wishful thinking of grant-seeking astronomers.
When looking down at agricultural land in the middle of the US, you see from 35,000 feet a patchy texture of fields, pastures and forests, interrupted occasionally by the bullseye pattern of pivot irrigation.
I’ve thought that if the dog looked like that, I’d treat it for mange.
I wonder whether aliens would have the same reaction?
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