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This rock, this watery pearl, this pale blue dot. |
We have investigated more than 70 worlds in our solar system counting
moons.
And what we have found, is that they are uninhabited, and uninhabitable
for mankind.
Maybe someday we might terraform some planet, but that would take so
much more than we are capable of today. The gravity alone, on any other
world, woudl kill us in a couple years. Those planets larger than us,
are completely uninhabitable. Gas giants.
The four solar system gas giants share a number of features. All have
atmospheres that are mostly hydrogen and helium and that blend into the
liquid interior at pressures greater than the critical pressure, so
that there is no clear boundary between atmosphere and body. They have
very hot interiors, ranging from about 5000 K for Neptune to over
20,000 K for Jupiter. This great heat means that, beneath their
atmospheres, the planets are most likely entirely liquid. Thus, when
discussions refer to a "rocky core", one should not picture a ball of
solid granite, or even, at 20,000 K, liquid granite. Rather, what is
meant is a region in which the concentration of heavier elements such
as iron and silicon is greater than that in the rest of the planet.
At redcued gravity, say that on Mars or any moon, our bodies will not
work. They crumble and die, in a few short years.
And we have no means of escaping this solar system.
And we have looked, and we have looked, for more than 20 years panning
the skies listening for radio signals or any signs of civilization, and
we have found none.
We are alone, in the sense that even if there is life out there, it
might as well not exist, because we have no knowledge of it, or
communication with it.
This, right here, is all we have.
So the question is, is life worth saving or protecting?
Is it not a fatal disease, a plague that at least one planet has got, a
smelly, noisy, painful, detestable thing? The truth is few people truly
care if they live or die, unless they are in that moment of madness
called love. Often man kills himself, and he kills other men, and he
kills all other living things without remorse.
But do we have a responsibility, nonetheless to preserve our species,
in the hope, that someday in the future, life might be worth the
living?
That we, might set out, to create such a fortress, that would propel
life, our art, our artistry, our knowledge, our civilization, our
intellect, our species, thousands of years into the future.
All able bodied men, in this country, shall be conscripted for for this
task, that we might preserve the seat of our government, our
institutions, our culture, our civilization.
A fortress that will dwarf all previous human endeavors.
A fortress with its feet solidly planted in ancient rock that all those
who gaze upon it, will say, "What mountain is this??? That rises from
the earth as if forged by the gods themselves!
That our great country shall preserved.
So that thousands of years hence people will look back at us and say,
they, yes they, were the ones, who did what no others before them could
do. They were the ones, who took this country and shaped and moulded it
into something more than anyone could ever have imagined. A testament,
to the greatness of mankind and the sanctity of life itself.
And when people look at us, they will look at us in awe. These heroes,
these master craftsmen, these Canadians.
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11 May 2006 03:47:13 PM |
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All able bodied men, in this country, shall be conscripted for for this
task, that we might preserve the seat of our government, our
institutions, our culture, our civilization.
Great. I certainly hope you will starve to death. Slowly.
And get leprosy while you are at it. That would really
make me laugh.
Socks
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11 May 2006 04:38:18 PM |
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You will be sorry you said that when we are in our fort, and you don't
have one.
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11 May 2006 05:10:00 PM |
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"An asteroid big enough to devastate 2000 square kilometers but small
enough to escape detection missed the Earth by just 120,000 kilometers
on 14 June.
The approach of asteroid 2002 MN was the closest recorded by
astronomers since asteroid 1994 XM1 came slightly closer eight years
ago.
However, asteroid 1994 XM1 was estimated at only 10 meters across, too
small to cause much damage on the ground. Asteroid 2002 MN is estimated
to have a diameter of 80 meters, comparable to the object that exploded
a few kilometres over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908, causing
widespread devastation.
"It's the largest object known to have come this close within decades,"
Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told
New Scientist.
Many other near misses must have gone undetected in the past,
astrophysicists say.
Too fast
No one spotted asteroid 2002 MN until 17 June, three days after it sped
by the Earth at 10.6 kilometers per second. "
So it would enter the atmosphere and impact, within a second. You would
see it when it started to glow, not before because it is a dark object
but you would see it and a second later kaboom.
We are lulled into a false sense of security by movies into believeing
that somehow, we could launch ICBMs to intercept an asteroid well they
don't work in space, we have no rockets since Saturn 5 we are sitting
ducks. Even if we spotted one, we couldn't stop it.
And that is only one of the threats we face which could render us, the
human race extinct. But if not extinct then set us back quite a bit.
If lets say Yellowstone supervolcano erupted, and released poisonous
gas, that would of course wipe out much of the civilization in the
western world.
You see that once something occurs, it is too late to build your
fortress. You have to already be in some form of protected
circumstance.
But if you look at the situation from an objective perspective, what
you see is that mankind could not muster up enough energy to give a
hoot, if life carried on or died screaming.
We just don't care. Simple as that. It is barely worth living.
What people do, is they build wooden stick houses designed to last as
long as they expect to and not a moment more.
Why? Well they don't care if life goes on, life is a burden, they just
want to get through it themselves.
And if we did care, and if life was worth living, worth preserving, we
would be engaged in building fortresses to preserve it. For all we
know, and the only evidence we have, this is it. Right here on earth,
and the rest of the universe is dead.
And still we don't care.
And we live on a garden planet.
Suppose people moved to colonize Mars, would they care more? No life
there would be harder, less enjoyable, in a short while they would not
care if it persisted or perished.
So what of other civilizations out there then, would they be more
inclined to think life was worth preserving or would they be more like
us, who go about just killing it off with pollutants etc without hardly
a second thought?
The truth is, that statistically, after listening to space with radio
telescopes we should have had a very large sample of suspected signals
that could not be identified as being of natural origin if Drake was
right.
Statistically you would need a curve, of signals, and somehwere in a
vast amount of received signals, you might find a civilization that we
might understand, or have something in common with, or learn something
from etc.
To get one signal, and then to assume we might understand it, or
benefit in any way from it, is as strange a thought as us, being the
only sign of life, in the entire universe.
Yet here we sit.
And we don't even care, if it persists, or just wafts away forever.
We don't care because life, is not really worth the living, or else we
would care, and we would be working to ensure its survival.
We have our moments when we make noises to preserve it, but just so
that it lasts the 60 or 70 years, beyond that who cares.
So philosphically speaking you can only arrive at one conclusion based
on the evidence at hand.
Life is a *****, and then you die.
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11 May 2006 05:35:36 PM |
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mankind could not muster up enough energy to give a
hoot, if life carried on or died screaming.
We just don't care.
Life is a force. Doesn't matter whether we care or not. Meanwhile,
what's over the next hill?
If we're alone in this universe, then probably there's more than one
universe. Big bangs all over the place. Who knows? Space travel might
be a matter of harnessing the unlikely knowledge that in reality,
imaginable = possible = done.
p
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11 May 2006 05:42:37 PM |
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So you look at this one near miss and you say, well that is 72,000
miles away. That is not a near miss.
It is travelling, at 22,900 miles per hour.
If the gravity of the moon say, nudged it just a bit, whammo.
But that is a small one. A tiny rock.
http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html
Doesn't seem like anything to be even concerned about.
At least not in our lifetime.
Here is a near miss from March 2004 that was closer only 26,400 miles
away.
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/near_miss_asteroid_2004_fh.html?1832004
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11 May 2006 05:51:26 PM |
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This is a good one here.
It states that this near miss, was a rather large bolide, but it passed
on the other side of the moon. And despite the scare stories from
movies etc, there is no real danger because these things are rare. It
goes on to say, that although asteroids of this size impact the earth
every 50 years or so, the odds are stacked against an asteroid hitting
the earth in the near future.
And so when was this near miss?
Well the top one there was in June 2002, this one was in Aug 2002 .Two
months between them.
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/spotlight/issue6/nearmiss.html
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11 May 2006 06:51:46 PM |
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You can look at it this way...
If the odds are that intelligent life will spring up in a universe, are
just one (us) in all these solar systems, then when we go, it will
never come again. It will be extinguished forever.
Simply because the universe is open, and it gets colder as it expands,
and the chances just aren't there, that you will get the right
circumstance, and be lucky enough, to avoid asteroid collision, and
have the right temperature and chemical composition that makes it
possible.
We have somehow avoided supervolcano and asteroid impact, long enough
to develop civilization.
You just know that is not going to last much longer.
The fact that we have not detected any signs of life out there, tell us
we are alone.
Either there is lots of life out there, or we are probably it.
And when we send out a signature, of radio waves, or radar or any em
waves like from TV it covers a broad spectrum.
We would see signals on many frequencies, if there was even one
civilization out there doing the same.
We don't see any.
We are it, and we ain't gonna last.
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11 May 2006 08:33:35 PM |
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And I suppose the chance of Canada getting it together and building a
fort, is about nil.
Even though we have the precambrian sheild, and we have all the raw
materials to build a fortress of legend, we don't have the will power
to accomplish anything at all.
Where America has vasy underground bases and Switzerland is build deep
into the mountains, we have a few stone buildings that we call our
houses of parliament.
Our entire civilization here in Canada would blow away without leaving
a trace, in a stiff breeze.
We don't like life period.
We are slaves who toil and earn just enough to pay the high cost of
living and that is all. You can count the rich Candians on one hand
probably.
If ever there was a race of TV watching people's that would be
Canadians.
Unable to actually live life, they are destined to observe it, and eat
potato chips.
Never has there been a more spinless government either, nor a more
incompetent bunch, who do nothing, while making loud noises.
To think that these people, who are terrified of everything including
the opinions of every old person who lives on a farm in
Saskatchewan, would ever do anything of note, or accomplish anything
besides setting themselves up for retirement, is a pipedream in the
extreme.
The key to our survival as a people, is that we are so unnoticeable no
one notices us at all. Except when we venture off to other lands to
help people fight their wars, or to fix their fences or what have you.
The Latvians, would build a fortress before Canadians would build a
fortress.
We just don't care enough to do a thing.
If its talk you need, we can do plenty of that.
Get the people together and build some great thing that might last for
thousands of years?
Not us.
We are the pigs that built of straw.
We made the Canada Arm for the Space Shuttle.
That was the best that we could do.
So basically if no one comes to save us, we are toast.
And really if you look at the facts, there is no one out there within
range to save us from ourselves.
You see this rock right here, the precambrian shield, is about 4.5
billion years old in places.
That means it survived just about everything so far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield
And so that is where you would want to think about building a fortress.
And you would want to build it, to withstand almost anything.
And then you would have done something.
As it is, we are just like cattle without a cowboy.
We are like deer who just stand there, when they are in the headlights.
No one would miss us anyways if a hypercane blew us into the sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane
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11 May 2006 08:52:16 PM |
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<rick_sobie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147397615.742731.114820@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
And I suppose the chance of Canada getting it together and building a
fort, is about nil.
Even though we have the precambrian sheild, and we have all the raw
materials to build a fortress of legend, we don't have the will power
to accomplish anything at all.
Where America has vasy underground bases and Switzerland is build deep
into the mountains, we have a few stone buildings that we call our
houses of parliament.
Our entire civilization here in Canada would blow away without leaving
a trace, in a stiff breeze.
well, nobody at all notices Canada today anyway.
It has the population of Rhode Island, and hosts Gasolinefest @ IQALUITS
http://server2.hxcmp3.com/bands/23342/index.php
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11 May 2006 09:21:12 PM |
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Yes Canadians are a sorry lot.
The Scotts, at least they have character, we have Quebec, but they are
not really french, they are watered down Canadian french.
The most amazing thing about Canadians, is their complete lack of fiber
and I don't mean in their diet.
Canada is the largest country in the world richest in natural
resources, and every Candian should be wealthy and happy and enjoy the
benefits of it, but somehow it is all off limits and in the hands of
foreign nationals who gave a few bucks to some politicians for 1000
year timber leases and the mineral rights and gas and oil rights and
Candians aren't allowed to go on that land.
That would be the 99.99999999% of the actual land mass save for about
50 meters both sides of the one highway that runs the length of the
country.
You think the indians who sold Alaska got a bad deal?
They got a good deal compared to what Canada got for its country.
But you know if America wanted to, it could come up here and build a
giant fortress on the precambrian shield.
No one would say anything. We never do. You could move some stuff there
and maybe civilization might survive a few thousand years.
It is a large stable bedrock structure that doesn't get a lot of
earthquakes.
And it has no volcanic activity, and only a few asteroids have hit it
in its 4.5 billion years and those craters are all ancient ones.
The glaciers though from the last ice age, scraped the surface clean,
so you would want to maybe have some method for dealing with that
eventuality over time.
But for starters as a stable geographic location, it is probably one of
the best spots.
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11 May 2006 09:31:17 PM |
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I can't actually ask you guys down south to come up here and ivade us
because you know that would be considered treason, and up here you can
get a fine for that, but you know those guys you see at the border
crossing?
Well thats about it. Thats our defense budget right there.
And besides I think Americans own probably 40 percent of Canda already
and have the rights to another 60% so you would be invading your own
holdings anyways.
We aren't the brightest by far. In fact if you have some colored tin
foil, you will get past most of parliament, and if you have a few bucks
you can get past the rest.
She's prime pickins up here boys.
What did we get in exchange for our wealth in the past?
The promise, of jobs.
That is like if we went down to a gold mine somewhere and said, hey
listen I want to buy your gold mine, and I am willing to pay you in
jobs and you said hellll yes.
And then we paid you minimum wage, but we raised it 20 cents. To be
fair.
And everyone went OK then thats better.
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11 May 2006 10:16:00 PM |
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So from a strictly science fiction point of view mind you, this is what
you would do.
You would take a platoon of marines, up to the precambrian shield
around Sudbury or so, where there is lots and lots of mineral deposits
including diamonds and lots of freshly polluted water, but the
pollutants can be filtered out, and you say this, is where humanity
makes its stand.
And you confiscate everything and enslave all the Candians - that will
cost you a quarter of a million bucks or so, and you build a giant
fortress complex built to survive whatever the universe might throw at
it, and you even tunnel under the ground into the solid bedrock.
A functional city, self supporting, like a biosphere but not air tight
just one that in case of emmergency, or even lets say the Andromeda
Strain scenario, that is already there and functioning and all you have
to do is lift the drawbridge and it becomes impervious.
You may have one second's notice, if a large bolide comes out of
nowhere or maybe a week, in case of epidemic or maybe two weeks in case
of super volcano but whatever happens, you are already there and you
are already in operation.
You have all the genetic record and the Noah's ark thing done and
stored, you have the Internet backed up, you have all the synthesized
chemicals and samplings of every culture, a total record of
civilization as we know it.
You have people of every field, you have everything safe and food
production facilities, free from whatever ravages might happen. You
have a safe zone.
It is open to the public as well, providing people undergo a quaranteen
period and leave all belongings outside the fortress.
It is futuristic, safe, well organized pleasant, crime free, and built
to wistand everything except maybe a direct hit from a comet moon or
asteroid of huge proportions.
And then life might be preserved. As it is, it appears to be the rarest
and therefore most precious commodity, in a universe of unimaginable
size, and we the keepers of it, well they should have got keepers with
larger brains maybe, but we are not really protecting it from anything.
We are the kind, that sit and cry, while all those around us are dying,
when in fact we should be the kind to keep our heads and do what needs
to be done to preserve this rarest of rare commodities.
To construct it, you merely say to the people look, this is your
planet, you will dedicate 6 months to this project, to help ensure the
survival of the human race.
And you will donate whatever 200 dollars each or some base tax and
money can be collected from people through some sort of tariffs or road
tax or whatever.
But you see unless you just went ahead with force and took the land,
took the minerals and took the water, from what? 100 people who have
all those holdings?
If you don't confiscate those things it wouldn't get done.
And our government is not capable of passing any law without asking
little old ladies on farms in Saskatewan for permission and they would
ask Oprah or or someone first before they gave their permission
anyways. So really if it were a Candian issue we would just ask Oprah
and cut right to the chase, but this is a global issue, and America, is
in the driver seat.
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11 May 2006 10:33:19 PM |
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Do you seriously think, we would do anything at all, if you tomorrow
started driving over the border with military vehicles, and landed
planes in our airports, and came over the border with helicopters?
Hell no, we hate our government with a passion. We would cheer like
they cheered in Versailes at the end of the Nazi occupation.
It is yours for the taking.
And together we could build a real country.
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11 May 2006 11:01:08 PM |
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Have a quick look for yourself.
The Canadian government is already joined at the hip to the American
government and does whatever they want. Page 1. The rest is American
content and paparazzi stuff anyways.
http://www.canada.com/
The reason there is no need to invade, is because America controls
Canda and its wealth and resources already. Americans don't want to
live up here in the cold.
So they just take the resources, basically. So it was a quiet
invasion.
But really what we need is more of a real invasion so to speak. We want
the benefits of being American besides just having access to American
culture through our TV sets.
We want a real standard of living as opposed to this slavery situation
we are forced to endure at present, and we want to do something
constructive with this land mass.
Besides just growing trees on it which accomplishes what? Building some
stick houses?
Straw houses stick houses didn;t anyone at all read the three little
pigs when they were young?
You know we pray for asteroids in Canada.
We do.
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11 May 2006 11:44:41 PM |
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You know it is difficult for people to graso just how alone we are in
the universe.
And even with the speculations of the Drake Equasion, that says well if
there are planets then there must be aliens and there are lots of suns
and planets out there.
But out there they are. Waaay out there.
In 1974, a largely symbolic attempt was made to send a message to other
worlds. To celebrate a substantial upgrading of the 305 metre Arecibo
Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico, a coded message of 1,679 bits was
transmitted towards the Globular Cluster M13, about 25,100 light years
away.
The pattern of 0s and 1s contained in the message defines a 23 =D7 73
two dimensional grid which when plotted reveals some data about our
location in the Solar System, a stylised figure of a human being,
chemical formulae and an outline of the radio telescope itself. The 23
by 73 grid was chosen because both 23 and 73 are prime numbers, which
makes it easier to decode the message. The reasons for this are:
* an attempt to factorize the length of the message would show that
it can't contain a grid with more than two dimensions (since there are
just two factors);
* assuming a two dimensional grid, there are only two possible
resultant images, with dimensions 23x73 or 73x23.
Given the limitations of the speed of light for message transmission,
no reply would be possible before the year 52,174 (approximately) and
hence has been dismissed by some as a publicity stunt. A controversy
arose because the transmission raised the serious question of whether a
small group should be allowed to speak for Earth.
So if it takes some 50,000 years to send a message, then you have to
wait 50,000 years for a reply, and that begs the question are these
people really insane or just maybe suffering from some sort of exposure
to deuterium or something?
And so even if we could get a signal from a star that was lets say 100
light years away.
Meaning we get a signal 100 years after it is sent, then we send a
reply and it takes a hundred years, well the Milky Way galaxy, our
little galactic home is
80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter.
Travelling at the speed of light for a hundred years doesn't take you
very far from home.
And the strength of the signal, to rise above the noise, would have to
be the entire signal strength of the all the worlds transcievers at
once in order to get any signal whatsoever that could be heard above
the din.
So you have to assume, that aliens, are using huge amounts of energy,
directed at us, to tell us something.
Well that is an insane proposition. Only in the 50's could anyone
believe anything as silly as that.
We can't get, to the closest star. The earth would be dead by the time
we got back that's for certain. Mass extinction events on earth happen
every 28 million years max.
We don't have that much time.
This is all we have right here and it is either do something to protect
it, or lets f*cking party like its 1999 and say the hell with it, the
hell with the future it isn't there, lets rock and roll baby, devil may
care but we sure as hell don't.
We are really living on borrowed time. And not making any moves to
preserve life in the universe from the dangers we know exist.
You can look at any p[ossible scenario and ask yourself what are we
doing really?
What is America doing to prepare for Yellowstone as instance?
Monitoring the situation.
What are we doing to protect ourselves from asteroid impact?
Monitoring the situation.
Really we are just waiting to die.
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12 May 2006 12:05:22 AM |
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You can look at all this stuff...
http://www.ufoevidence.org/
And you can believe, that we are not alone in the universe. And some of
it is really convincing, but there is no proof.
And so if there is no proof, we have to discount it don't we?
And we have looked and looked and investigated and done everything
within our power to find real presentable evidence, but there is no
proof.
It could all be just unexplained phenomena mass psychosis mass
hallucination machinations of the atmosphere or any sort of phenomena
we don't yet understand including the mental powers of the human mind
to organize particles in the atmosphere to take on the physical
appearance of objects by some quantum effect and yet are they real?
Nothing. No proof. We have to go with what we have and that is we are
alone in the universe as of right now.
They may be time travellers but does that mean that we will make the
right decision and preserve life so they come to exist at a later date
or does that fluctuate with our own intentions as well?
Do they only exist when we are moving towards preserving life and they
disappear when we aren't?
The future is probably not written in stone and we have no clue as to
how it really operates.
It looks more than anything like this world is merely a set, a
backdrop, and that is why we build with wood, and make things not to
last because subconsciously we know it is all just props, and so why
build to last when it is all a set?
There are things about life that make no sense whatsoever. But what we
need is good solid rational leadership willing to take a stand and make
decisions and do things to ensure the survival of the human race based
on solid science and good judgement.
If intelligent life, is to survive.
At this point, we have no defenses.
At this point we are merely tempting fate.
Waiting for that guillitine to drop.
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12 May 2006 12:20:40 AM |
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And lets go waaay out there and say well they have been seen saving us
from nuclear winter by disarming missles.
Ok well were they time travellers whoe existence depended on that and
what turns have we made since then that might cause our timeline to
diverge completely from those?
Well we believe we will be saved.
Keep in mind, no one saved Neanderthal Man.
No one.
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| Title: Re: This rock, this watery pearl, this pale blue dot. |
12 May 2006 12:40:21 AM |
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Neanderthal man went the way of the wooly mammoth about 30,000 years
ago.
Thats not a long time ago.
Most of the earth, was covered in glaciers, not that long ago. What
10,000 years ago?
10 to 15,000 years ago it ended.
You know how long it lasted?
60,000 years.
Raining for 40 days and 40 nights is nothing like snow for 60,000
years.
So we really are in just this little blip of pleasant time aren't we?
We are in between extinction events, we are not in an ice age, we
haven't been hit by an asteroid in a while, no supervolcanos are
threatening us, we are in this little calm period and as you might
expect, we seem to be just sitting back wating our time on idle
persuits when really we should be preparing for th einevitable.
The normal course of events is catstrophic periods with these small
temperate periods in between or so it would seem.
And what makes us any more impervious than the mammoth or neanderthal
or any of the other millions upon millions of species of flora and
fauna, that died out completely.
In all the history of the universe to our knowledge nothing but us,
have managed to make it this far.
Nothing else ever made a radio, let alone broadcasted to outerspace.
If we went the way of the dinosaur, do you see any species out there
that might repeat what we have done, when for 4.5 billion years prior
nothing else did?
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: This rock, this watery pearl, this pale blue dot. |
12 May 2006 01:30:07 AM |
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That signal, that was sent as a message, into space, in 1974, towards
the Globular Cluster M13, about 25,100 light years away will get there
in 25,100 years.
There is something else that we should have put in that message.
Goodbye.
Cause baby we're not gonna make it.
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