The Fermi Paradox - Why we haven't been contacted by aliens

[Chief_For_Life58]

Interesting read. What's your opinion?


http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Fish

Well, way over 99% of the universe is actually empty space. That's why they call it space. In many spots, you could travel for millions of light years in any direction and not even see anything to run into. The emptiness between galaxies is mind bottling.

But you're right that we'd have a problem with speed and collisions. You really wouldn't be able to see and react to anything during travel that fast. I'd guess that we'd have to create a 3D map of the travel area and completely program flights ahead of time.

Would also need deflectors shields to clear the small stuff.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Would also need deflectors shields to clear the small stuff.

Which would need to absorb insane amounts of energy. Hitting anything at near the speed of light would release unimaginable energy. It's hard to imagine it would ever be possible.

[ThaVirus]

Just gotta slap on a few high powered inertial dampeners. No biggie.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Fish

Which would need to absorb insane amounts of energy. Hitting anything at near the speed of light would release unimaginable energy. It's hard to imagine it would ever be possible.

By then we would be able to harness all of the energy in the sun, so we'll have that going for us.

[Halfcan]

Maybe we have already been visited by aliens?

[Rain Man]

if you find a way to travel in a physical space that is different then the one with asteroids and planets and stuff, then you don't have to worry about hitting anything when you travel.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

if you find a way to travel in a physical space that is different then the one with asteroids and planets and stuff, then you don't have to worry about hitting anything when you travel.

Now we're talking..

[TribalElder]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Dayze

we're alone / Religion

Actually the Catholic Church has been talking quite openly about aliens recently. They've had a telescope in Arizona for years, basically in an effort to mend fences between the Church and science, and they held a conference at the Vatican centered around alien life in 2009 and just a couple of days ago co-sponsored another, this time in Arizona.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Dunerdr

We're never gonna make level II until there's a minimum intelligence standard for breeding. I propose a shot to make the body sterile at 13. At 18 your tested if your not the future of idiocracy you are eligible to breed. If not you get a neck tat and another shot. Now here's the beauty. You got all these increasingly intelligent people running around stressing over research and what have you. They walk out find em a broad with a neck tat, **** her stupid and go back to work without fear of consequence. It's gonna take it's toll on the used mobile home business and foot print gas pedal installers but it's a faster track to level 2.

Does not knowing the difference between a possessive pronoun and a contraction mean that you fail the test?

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

Does not knowing the difference between a possessive pronoun and a contraction mean that you fail the test?

heh

(although I'm fuzzy in whether they're (or should I say 'their') pronouns or adjectives)

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

If 0.3% of the budget is a lot then the answer is yes. NASAs entire budget since it's inception is less than the bank bail out of 2008.

That's because the military has their own space program.
Nasa is an entertainment vehicle IMO.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by beach tribe

That's because the military has their own space program.

That they do. The air force even refers to their own program as the 'largest space program in the world": http://www.airforce.com/careers/deta...ms-operations/

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Thats another wild, probably sci-fi, possibility. If a 4th or 5th dimension exists, whatever the hell that might mean, and if we were capable of existing in those dimensions, and if distance was meaningless in those dimensions.

Yeah I agree, but it's fun to think about. Some consider time to be the "4th dimension". So maybe the "aliens" are us from the distant future? Who knows what will be possible hundreds of thousands of years from now. Look at how much we've advanced technologically in just the past 20 years.

Speaking of tech advancements, is it just me or did aviation technology (along with, well, pretty much everything else) really just explode directly after the Roswell incident in 1947? I don't know what to think or believe regarding the UFO stories over the course of history, but it's interesting nonetheless.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by lcarus

Yeah I agree, but it's fun to think about. Some consider time to be the "4th dimension". So maybe the "aliens" are us from the distant future? Who knows what will be possible hundreds of thousands of years from now. Look at how much we've advanced technologically in just the past 20 years.

Speaking of tech advancements, is it just me or did aviation technology (along with, well, pretty much everything else) really just explode directly after the Roswell incident in 1947? I don't know what to think or believe regarding the UFO stories over the course of history, but it's interesting nonetheless.

I'm as big a UFO buff as anybody, but I think the post WW2 technology explosion had more to do with wartime money going into tech development and then project paperclip.

I do think something happened as Roswell though. I just have no idea what, and expect that I never will. My guess is if we have ever recovered anything extraterrestrial, that we're still struggling to understand/reverse engineer it, which is my pet theory on why there has been and will be no disclosure: nobody would want to acknowledge that the phenomena is real but completely beyond our understanding and control.