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Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
Nautilus ^ | 10/4/2017 | Seth Shostak

Posted on 11/08/2019 8:07:08 PM PST by Duke C.

I’m optimistic by nature—as a scientist, you have to be. But my hopeful feeling is not wishful thinking; it is firmly grounded in the logic of SETI. Half a century sounds like a long time, but the search is truly in its early days. Given the current state of SETI efforts and abilities, I feel that we’re on the cusp of learning something truly revolutionary.

(Excerpt) Read more at getpocket.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; aliens; astronomy; endlessgrants; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; pipedream; science; sethshostak; seti; skepticultists; ufo; ufos; worstexcerptever; yurimilner
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1 posted on 11/08/2019 8:07:08 PM PST by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

If? If? HaHaHaHa...


2 posted on 11/08/2019 8:10:31 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi
Here is an alternative hypothesis on ET


3 posted on 11/08/2019 8:13:03 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^s)
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To: Duke C.

An optimistic astronomer with feelings and a great big gubmint grant?

Please, tell me more!!


4 posted on 11/08/2019 8:14:53 PM PST by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Duke C.

The likelihood of finding a planet with ALL the requirements to support life AND for that life to exist at all, much less to be intelligent enough to build a transmitter, are virtually nil. The odds are like 1:10e-300.


5 posted on 11/08/2019 8:15:01 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: DoodleBob

Really?


6 posted on 11/08/2019 8:15:39 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Duke C.
Star Trek Original Series Intro(HQ)
7 posted on 11/08/2019 8:15:49 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: DoodleBob

I agree.


8 posted on 11/08/2019 8:19:09 PM PST by Coleus (Vivat Jesus)
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To: Duke C.

Ridiculous, we only have 11 years left.


9 posted on 11/08/2019 8:22:53 PM PST by A strike ( Every knee shall bow)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Are you not familiar with the Drake equation?


10 posted on 11/08/2019 8:23:16 PM PST by golux
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“The likelihood of finding a planet with ALL the requirements to support life AND for that life to exist at all, much less to be intelligent enough to build a transmitter, are virtually nil. The odds are like 1:10e-300.”

The problem is when. Some scientists have posited that the amount of time a civilization with a comparable lifespan to ours has between developing radio and collapse from war/pollution/disease is 100-200 years.


11 posted on 11/08/2019 8:23:39 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: DoodleBob

Seriously?


12 posted on 11/08/2019 8:23:48 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DoodleBob

Agreed.


13 posted on 11/08/2019 8:25:33 PM PST by BipolarBob (Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
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To: DoodleBob

That’s how I
See those Rascally
“Space Critters!”


14 posted on 11/08/2019 8:25:45 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Oh boy oh boy are they going to enjoy anally probing you...


15 posted on 11/08/2019 8:26:16 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Who said that life has to be like us?


16 posted on 11/08/2019 8:27:20 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: golux

Drake was wrong. I saw the Kanamits on TV.


17 posted on 11/08/2019 8:30:27 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Wrong - I already found aliens, but they're too dumb to build a transmitter:


18 posted on 11/08/2019 8:32:15 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: Viking2002

They live among us.


19 posted on 11/08/2019 8:36:17 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

e? You mean Euler’s number?

Do you mean -300 as a subtrahend or an exponent?


20 posted on 11/08/2019 8:43:21 PM PST by be-baw
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