We can only conclude that any advanced life in nearby systems is not communicating in a fashion that we can detect. Given average luck, the...
Other than the difference between our fates being in our own hands, or the survival of the race held hostage to the whim of an unknown quantity, it...
I wouldn’t agree either ambition or self-preservation are things any race would edit out of their genetic coding – sitting around on your home planet...
The only thing that comes to mind is Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of The Great Powers. It's got nothing to do with UFO's (its about the passing of...
We've discussed this in the past. Here's my current musing. Death by unnatural causes and the aging process has been eliminated. Only death by...
Define “super advanced”. Specifically, just how many technology tricks do the laws of physics have in them, and what happens to our clever friends...
This implies that they’d give a damn. If they’re here, it’s a Cold War and we’re North Korea. The existence of extra-terrestrials would...
The ship’s ability to transmit/receive during transit would be curtailed according to time dilation, but would not be completely eliminated. It...
This implies that they’d be motivated to talk to us….what’s in it for them other than our sterling conversational skills and charm? The proper...
If it were a moon in orbit around a very large planet, could the magnetic field of such a giant help protect life on the moon? Saw an article in...
There is no evidence that Austria was plotting war against Serbia prior to June 28th 1914. Had the Serbian army not gone to Sarajevo, there is no...
The assassination of the no.2 man in the Austrian Empire was as much an “excuse” for the ultimatum to Serbia of 23 July 1914 as was 9/11 to the...
I’ve no idea. But it does seem to me to be the case that there must be some cost/benefit equation behind the decision to use or not use such...
Carl Sagan notwithstanding, we have insufficient information available to conclude whether such claims are, or are not, extraordinary with reference...
Check back in a hundred years when we as a species know what the hell we are talking about. Intelligence caused by “little ripples” developing on...
Genes irrelevant. Gotcha. I’ll inform the U.N. immediately… . Either that or there is an incentive to ‘go along with the herd’. Your man...
My interest is focused primarily on how we, as a society, move forward from the point we are currently at such that in the future people are happier,...
Our genetic legacy is a function of what worked best within the framework of the available choices. “Best” is defined as anything that increases...
To sum up all the above posts. I think nobody is arguing the fact that: Phenotype = Genotype + Environment There must also be an allowance for...
Actually, I think that dogs (along with other pets) are about to undergo, in the next few hundred of years, radical alterations to their basic...
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