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by deSitter
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9/13/04 4:55:19 PM
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New Re: Where the hell is everybody?
Some lamers have gone so far to adduce this as a method for deciding which vacuum string theory chooses from the gatrillions of choices. Needless to say it's "not science".

Someone even ventured the idea that the aliens aren't here because they've found a "better plane" and moved there.
-drl
Post #173,986
by inthane-chan
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9/13/04 4:57:57 PM
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New So what's your answer?
Post #173,989
by deSitter
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9/13/04 5:01:01 PM
9/13/04 5:04:22 PM
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New Don't think it's a valid question at this point
We still can't calculate the magnetic moment of the electron without illegal tricks. We aren't really very much off square one here.

The Universe is extremely big. You just can't fathom how big. Voyager will take 70,000 years to get to the nearest star.

The best answer I've seen is by Authur Clarke. "The stars are not for man." But, perhaps they are for what comes after man.
-drl
Expand Edited by deSitter Sept. 13, 2004, 05:04:22 PM EDT
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     Where the hell is everybody? - (inthane-chan) - (43) - Sept. 13, 2004, 10:48:25 AM EDT
         Easy... - (admin) - Sept. 13, 2004, 10:56:43 AM EDT
         Light is slow. Universe is big. Catastrophes happen. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 13, 2004, 11:17:08 AM EDT
             Not if you believe Von Neumann - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 13, 2004, 11:32:41 AM EDT
             Looking for radio signals is probably futile. - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 13, 2004, 11:44:18 AM EDT
         Re: Where the hell is everybody? - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 13, 2004, 04:55:19 PM EDT
             So what's your answer? -NT - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Sept. 13, 2004, 04:57:57 PM EDT
                 Don't think it's a valid question at this point - (deSitter) - Sept. 13, 2004, 05:04:22 PM EDT
         Where? Well.. the Why has been done by Calvin & Hobbes - (Ashton) - Sept. 13, 2004, 05:16:22 PM EDT
         The speed of light is too low. - (static) - (24) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:29:44 AM EDT
             It is clear the speed of light must be exceeded. - (Andrew Grygus) - (20) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:35:34 AM EDT
                 Not a joke! -NT - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 02:03:27 AM EDT
                 I believe and nearly always have... - (folkert) - (10) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:05:12 AM EDT
                     The problem with C is that it's a hard limit. -NT - (pwhysall) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:16:36 AM EDT
                     I don't think we'll ever exceed C myself. - (inthane-chan) - (5) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:21:51 AM EDT
                         OT: What's C++ all about, then? :) -NT - (Meerkat) - (4) - Sept. 15, 2004, 12:03:00 AM EDT
                             :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 15, 2004, 12:21:01 AM EDT
                             Demonstrating that you can't - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 15, 2004, 10:44:48 AM EDT
                             Hmmm - (imric) - Sept. 15, 2004, 10:48:58 AM EDT
                             Simple - (admin) - Sept. 15, 2004, 10:58:15 AM EDT
                     Re: I believe and nearly always have... - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:22:50 AM EDT
                     There is no evidence that they affect each other - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:27:36 AM EDT
                     Replying to my own... to address the others. - (folkert) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:04:18 PM EDT
                 Metaphysics wise - (ChrisR) - (7) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:30:04 AM EDT
                     Re: Metaphysics wise - (deSitter) - (6) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:03:09 PM EDT
                         No... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:08:02 PM EDT
                             Re: No... - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:55:53 PM EDT
                                 There are materials with negative refractive indexes. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 01:32:33 PM EDT
                                     Re: There are materials with negative refractive indexes. - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 01:53:55 PM EDT
                         Well, if we can't speed up light.... - (ChrisR) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:08:53 PM EDT
                             That would be one of my favourite passages. :-) -NT - (static) - Sept. 14, 2004, 09:12:32 PM EDT
             It's not the getting there, it's slowing down enough to look - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:37:14 AM EDT
                 Right - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 02:11:13 AM EDT
             Re: The speed of light is too low. - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 02:01:32 AM EDT
         Space is big. - (pwhysall) - (5) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:40:45 AM EDT
             I believe the technical term for it is ... hyarge -NT - (drewk) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:49:29 AM EDT
             Not so big - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Sept. 14, 2004, 02:27:15 AM EDT
                 Question about that theory - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 11:41:48 AM EDT
                     The latter - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 14, 2004, 12:02:22 PM EDT
             I thought it was a long way to the chemists. But that's - (Meerkat) - Sept. 14, 2004, 03:28:52 AM EDT
         Don't know enough - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 01:21:13 AM EDT
             Re: Don't know enough - (deSitter) - Sept. 14, 2004, 02:04:39 AM EDT
         Might like some MMORPGs - (Meerkat) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 03:30:59 AM EDT
             Your .sig is oddly appropriate. :) -NT - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 14, 2004, 10:52:02 AM EDT

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