A very good point!!
Kirk....
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <[email protected]>
To: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Listening To Fermi
I think there is life out there somewhere, but I doubt they are
broadcasting their presence using primitive technologies like radio or
anything else we would recognize. This is not unlike aliens trying to
detect us by looking for our carrier pigeons.
On 9/16/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting point Eric. My question is: how many years of complete and
total
silence would it take to reach the conclusion there's just nobody out
there?
1,000? 10,000? a million years? a billion? a googlezillion? You could
listen
for eternity, hear nothing and say, well we just need a little more time.
I
don't buy the argument of time scale. If there are aliens out there
transmitting at anywhere near the rate of Earth's output, surely in 50
years
we would have heard one little bit of Morse Code by now.
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Phil Whitmer
I might agree with that sentiment if there were enough information to
support it. However, I've got an interesting question about perspective
and time.
If a child looked out the window of a house for a mere 32/1000th of a
second and formed a conclusion that horses do not exist, would you say
he's correct?
Eric
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