It shouldn't be binary; all cigs endure or all perish. Okay, well maybe the latter, but if so what is the lifespan? Need a variable even if it is a blind guess.
Are we alone in the universe?
- (lincoln)
- (20)
- June 20, 2014, 11:38:42 AM EDT
Several things have been pointed out.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (2)
- June 20, 2014, 12:10:07 PM EDT
dang, I wanted to open up an intergalactic brothel.
- (boxley)
- June 20, 2014, 05:45:15 PM EDT
Excellent points. Thanks.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 20, 2014, 07:17:34 PM EDT
Perhaps the noisy ones end up dead.
-NT
- (malraux)
- June 20, 2014, 07:29:58 PM EDT
Yup, thirteen Billion Years+ of inter-galactic crap-shoots and
- (Ashton)
- June 20, 2014, 08:31:13 PM EDT
It's easy to forget how huge the Universe is...
- (Another Scott)
- June 21, 2014, 01:16:06 AM EDT
Some assumptions lurking in that.
- (static)
- June 20, 2014, 10:09:33 PM EDT
I am reminded of a cartoon of two ants...
- (hnick)
- (2)
- June 21, 2014, 08:20:59 AM EDT
:-) Yup.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 21, 2014, 08:42:21 AM EDT
This is my opinion as well.
- (folkert)
- June 21, 2014, 11:11:18 AM EDT
The Drake Equation
- (gcareaga)
- (9)
- June 21, 2014, 10:04:12 PM EDT
Heard Carl Sagan explain it on stage in LA back in 1974.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (6)
- June 22, 2014, 03:25:06 PM EDT
From the source
- (gcareaga)
- (5)
- June 22, 2014, 04:07:49 PM EDT
Indeed the source!
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- (4)
- June 22, 2014, 04:53:53 PM EDT
Missed opportunity
- (gcareaga)
- (3)
- June 22, 2014, 05:50:21 PM EDT
Re: advanced civilizations would be immortal
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- June 22, 2014, 06:10:42 PM EDT
Re: advanced civilizations would be immortal
- (gcareaga)
- June 22, 2014, 06:46:10 PM EDT
Thanks for reminder 'extinction rate', also that bias.
- (Ashton)
- June 22, 2014, 07:16:11 PM EDT
Apparently Fermi had a version, too.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- June 29, 2014, 11:31:29 PM EDT
Great material for honing the fringe of what-ifs? of more practical aims, maybe.
- (Ashton)
- July 6, 2014, 05:02:56 AM EDT