Intelligent Civilizations Rarer than One in a Million

Scientific Computing ^ | Tue, 02/12/2013 - 7:13am

[dfwgator]

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.

[no-to-illegals]

or microbes.

[KC_Lion]

I know this is from Number 2, but it works none the less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Oc-pstqpc

[Noamie]

You assume that Eden was on Earth? ;)

[PUGACHEV]

A civilization does not have to fail in order for us not to detect any radio transmissions from it. We have been sending radio waves into the either for little more than 100 years, and I suspect that it will be less than 100 years more before we find a much better way to communicate.

[TexasRepublic]

“Socialism is the political expression of the religion of Humanism which began with the lie “you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, and will only end when its author is flung into the Pit.”

Best comment of the day.

[rbg81]

My larger point is that there may be a short window of time where a civilization (as we understand it) may be detectable. They may go from the pre-industrial primitive to the G-d like in less than a thousand years.

Or, they could fail in a shorter amount of time.

[plain talk]

I loved the Reaper stuff. Perhaps you are a Reaper FReeper.

[KC_Lion]

Lols! Thank You! That Rhymes!

If you want the full story check out, what in my opionon, is a high point in Video Gaming:

Vigil's tale- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MIpsejZRq0

[plain talk]

Further, the presumption that we will forever onward continue to communicate with broadcast radio waves of sufficient power to reach another solar system may be a false one. It may turn out that there is a very small technological window when high powered radio waves are common to a developing civilization.

Yes you are one of the few that have stated what I have believed for a long time. We are already moving from high power radio to more distributed lower power radio. This will continue. What is scary though is that creatures far away may continue to monitor high power radio for periods long after they use it. They might receive our transmissions from say the early 1900s and dispatch craft that arrive in 2025 or something. They arrive and wipe us out.

[plain talk]

thanks. I am not a gamer so I had no idea how sci-fi and gaming has merged. cool

[KC_Lion]

You are quite welcome!

Yes the Original Mass Effect is (in my opinion) a masterpiece of Sci-fi Immersion.

Maybe it's just the music but those two scene I posted, the one with Sovereign, the other with Vigil, are Milestones.

Absolutely incredible.

Number 2 was good, VERY good, different yet familiar, the way a sequel should be.

Sadly Mass Effect 3 is...........less than acceptable. That is when Electronic Arts got their money grubbing corporate hands on the franchise and cause many of the developers to leave and butchered the project.

But Mass Effect was the first Real Immersive Movie-Game and you got to choose how it all played out.