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How do you prove a negative? It makes me wonder about the many things that humans have never conceptualized.
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But what about the barrier of the speed of light (theoretically, the closer one approaches the speed of light, the energy required to accelerate increases exponentially)…which is to say that faster than light travel could well be forever out of reach.
This then leaves us to imagine incredible new telescopes that might be able to see farther than ever before (as the only means of detecting life far beyond our planet). The problem is still the speed of light—whatever we are seeing is images from the past. Millions of light years of distance/in the past is not out of the question, so anyone looking in at us from far away is seeing our past, not our present—so what do they see? A planet prior to the birth of life? What will we see when looking farther than ever before? The past and one in which life may not have yet arisen. Another fun thing to think about is how advanced would we be now if destiny hadn’t burned down the library of Alexandria, or brought the doom of the Dark Ages on our civilization ? Where would we be now? Is that where an extraterrestrial civilization is now? Or did they already get too far and self-destruct? Is that where we are headed, too?
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The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. Lack of evidence refuting a claim cannot make a claim more likely to be true, it simply means one should remain open to the possibility the claim is true while withholding actual belief in the claim. Maybe a fine distinction but I think an important one.
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Here's an interesting fact. The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away. If Voyager were heading in that direction it would take it 73,000 years to get there. We have a long way to go in developing interstellar travel. I don't think we'll ever get there, at least not with a person onboard.
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I have it on very good authority there is no intelligent life anywhere beyond this planet.
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Bear in mind that over hundreds of years Roman civilisation and the ancient world in general had very little technological or social innovation. Far from being a hindrance to advancement the Dark Ages were a "disruptor", getting rid of the old and stale and providing a platform for new forms of organisation that resulted in the modern world as we know it. |
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And even that is a stretch.....
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The "so-called" dark ages were actually the "aptly-named" dark ages.
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I also didn't say the Dark Ages provided any great advances. I said "disruptor". A transitionary era if you prefer, from which eventually arose the modern nation state. "... System of political organisation that operated smoothly..." The empire fell apart from both internal and external pressures, so by definition it wasn't operating "smoothly". Rome contributed virtually nothing to the advancement of philosophy (early Church fathers aside, who were often in opposition to Roman authority) and science. Paved roads, aqueducts and triumphal arches are great but there isn't much evidence that the empire could innovate or adapt. All empires eventually wither and die. If Rome hadn't collapsed we could still be using those same paved roads... ... With the same horse pulled carts. |
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How's that working out for you?
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And I’m pretty sure you know a lot more about this subject than you initially let on. Cool cat that you are…
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I've been to Roswell, I know things you can't imagine. And I have a tee shirt.
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rlink;
OH YEH? Well I live close to area 51 and I'm close to harmonic convergence. Hard to beat all that. |