Another Alien-related poll

How doyou feel about the possibility that Aliens might come to Earth?

  • I feel positively, want to meet them

    Votes: 12 22.6%
  • I feel negatively, don't want it to happen

    Votes: 18 34.0%
  • I am neutral towards it

    Votes: 12 22.6%
  • I have already arrived.

    Votes: 11 20.8%

  • Total voters
    53
  • Poll closed .
I'm almost done reading this book called "The Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a scientist/inventor who thinks that there most likely isn't any other intelligent life in the universe that has had an industrial revolution yet, because according to him, one a species hits an industrial revolution it only takes them 300, 400, or 500 years to start colonizing the entire universe (a task he predicts we will be well underway by the end of the 22nd century).

His ideas are well argued yet absurd, but if they hold weight, they make a good case for why there are NO INTELLIGENT ALIENS, period.

Did he also prove that travel over lightspeed is possible? If he didn't, they might just not be coming because it would take them too long.
 
Did he also prove that travel over lightspeed is possible? If he didn't, they might just not be coming because it would take them too long.

He admits that's a constraint, but also suggests the use of wormholes may allow a species to send its nanotechnology to very far away places faster than traveling per se would allow.

He also believes that SETI and related projects would have already picked up any intelligent life forms if they are only a few decades ahead of us in technological capability. He believes this because that would mean they'd be advanced enough to harness nearly all the matter and energy in their surrounding solar system. That would mean they'd be broadcasting a lot of communication, and would therefore be very noticeable.
 
That's what Ron Paul is like? Care to share an example?

Maybe I should read one of Ron Paul's books. Might be good for a laugh.
 
He admits that's a constraint, but also suggests the use of wormholes may allow a species to send its nanotechnology to very far away places faster than traveling per se would allow.
IF wormholes do actually exists and are usable. It's just another way of FTL travel, and it's yet to be proven that it's physically possible. So far, no luck.
He also believes that SETI and related projects would have already picked up any intelligent life forms if they are only a few decades ahead of us in technological capability. He believes this because that would mean they'd be advanced enough to harness nearly all the matter and energy in their surrounding solar system. That would mean they'd be broadcasting a lot of communication, and would therefore be very noticeable.
IF they are close enough for us to pick up AND if they use technology somehow similar to us.
If they are 4000 millions light-years away, good luck trying to pick up even a whole solar system worth of emission, especially if there is a galaxy or two in-between.
 
Kurzweil is like Ron Paul - he seems smart but ends up spewing way too much BS.

Yeah...I dunnow who Kurzweil is, but you got Ron Paul right...
That's what Ron Paul is like? Care to share an example?

Maybe I should read one of Ron Paul's books. Might be good for a laugh.

Read Love Wins with a watchful eye.

Basically his message is that there is no hell, that God will save everyone...what he says goes against the Bible.

And if you would like to discuss that, the Evangelical Christian thread is thataways.
 
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