Haha, I needed a laugh before bed Chuck. Around here it is a long
running fantasy that the Starship Enterprise will come by and pick us
up. Sci-fi makes for such great fantasies.
On 6/1/2011 11:06 PM, Chuck Bowling wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:39 PM, rigsy03 <[email protected]
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If they could actually travel trillions of miles, they'd find slim
pickin's, imho. We are ravaging ourselves!
I think the Explorers had definite goals besides their curiousity-
spices, gold, slaves, territory, sea lanes, etc.
You can have my ticket! :-)
Are you saying that given the opportunity to travel the galaxy without
restriction you'd pass?
Wow. I wouldn't even hesitate. My speedo and blowup doll would be
packed before I finished accepting.
On May 31, 5:57 pm, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]
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wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Pat
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> > On May 19, 6:41 am, Chuck Bowling
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> > > I think that with nanotechnology we will be able to
synthesize pretty
> > much
> > > anything we want from raw materials in the future. Assuming
that any
> > alien
> > > race capable of traveling the trillions of miles to get here
would have
> > at
> > > least the same level of technology my guess is that they
wouldn't need
> > > anything we'd have to offer.
>
> > Perhaps they would want the two things we can spare the least:
> > ourselves as their 'food' and the REST of our planet's natural
> > resources. After all, food and resources is exactly why WE'D be
> > touring the galaxy.
>
> When I refer to resources I'm thinking about the 92 raw elements
that
> naturally occur in nature. Given those and advanced
nano-assembly techniques
> I think that literally anything can be replicated.
>
> Assuming that's the case, I'd think that an advanced alien
civilization
> would find better ways of feeding itself than to travel
trillions upon
> trillions of miles to ravage the Earth.
>
> As to why we'd be touring the galaxy, I think human curiosity
would be a
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