Monkeys Fist 44141 Posted Monday at 11:44 Share Posted Monday at 11:44 15 minutes ago, Toonpack said: I would suggest it's almost a certainty given the gazillions of galaxies in the universe. Aye, but it’s very unlikely we’ll ever come across intelligent life. See the Fermi Paradox Essentially, given the almost definite chance that life exists in multiple locations throughout the universe, why haven’t we found it yet? Also, the conditions necessary to reach interstellar/galactic travel make it extremely unlikely that we’ll ever come across intelligent life capable of it, even if we get there ourselves. Chances are that any alien life capable of it have already died out or are too far away to ever reach us, given the speed the universe is expanding. It’s similar to the concept of the “observable universe”, and how we’ll never be able to get past it’s boundary. Say that we discovered the ability to travel interstellar tomorrow- if we set off on Wednesday morning, by the time we got to the edge of the observable universe , us travelling at light speed, the boundary will have moved further away from us. By the time we get to the new boundary, again, it’s fucked off a bit more. We’ll never get to it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 44141 Posted Monday at 12:09 Share Posted Monday at 12:09 2 hours ago, Toonpack said: DNA found in meteorite samples (a single strand DNA no less!!) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.20.633545v1 It’ll be bits of Bruce Willis from Armageddon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 10766 Posted Monday at 12:21 Share Posted Monday at 12:21 32 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: Aye, but it’s very unlikely we’ll ever come across intelligent life. See the Fermi Paradox Essentially, given the almost definite chance that life exists in multiple locations throughout the universe, why haven’t we found it yet? Also, the conditions necessary to reach interstellar/galactic travel make it extremely unlikely that we’ll ever come across intelligent life capable of it, even if we get there ourselves. Chances are that any alien life capable of it have already died out or are too far away to ever reach us, given the speed the universe is expanding. It’s similar to the concept of the “observable universe”, and how we’ll never be able to get past it’s boundary. Say that we discovered the ability to travel interstellar tomorrow- if we set off on Wednesday morning, by the time we got to the edge of the observable universe , us travelling at light speed, the boundary will have moved further away from us. By the time we get to the new boundary, again, it’s fucked off a bit more. We’ll never get to it. That and lets face it who the fuck would want to visit us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 11146 Posted Monday at 12:32 Share Posted Monday at 12:32 9 minutes ago, Toonpack said: That and lets face it who the fuck would want to visit us Any species that has cracked interstellar travel would be coming here the same way people go on safari in Africa. We'd be a big zoo full of hairless monkeys shooting each other with primitive weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 44141 Posted Monday at 12:32 Share Posted Monday at 12:32 9 minutes ago, Toonpack said: That and lets face it who the fuck would want to visit us Alien Kirk might fancy a bit of Earthgirl minge? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 22998 Posted Monday at 13:48 Share Posted Monday at 13:48 4 hours ago, Toonpack said: DNA found in meteorite samples (a single strand DNA no less!!) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.20.633545v1 Well, that's not a peer reviewed journal. It's a single author from no recognised academic institution. It's full of quasi-pseudo scientifc bollocks. Were there any chance this was true, it would be front page of Nature. Apart from the fact it seems to me unlikely fragile DNA could survive inter-planetary or even inter-stellar space and the impact through Earth's atmosphere, the chances "alien DNA" would be "DNA" as we know it is almost zero. Alien life would probably have some form of genetic code, but it would not be the DNA molecule, which arose by chance. It's funny how in Star Trek Spock's Dad got it on with an Earth lady and impregnated her, when in reality they would be completely incompatible. The dirty logical bassa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 48155 Posted Monday at 13:54 Share Posted Monday at 13:54 Renton trying to explain away the alien spunk on his duvet itt. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 22998 Posted Monday at 13:54 Share Posted Monday at 13:54 2 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: Aye, but it’s very unlikely we’ll ever come across intelligent life. See the Fermi Paradox Essentially, given the almost definite chance that life exists in multiple locations throughout the universe, why haven’t we found it yet? Also, the conditions necessary to reach interstellar/galactic travel make it extremely unlikely that we’ll ever come across intelligent life capable of it, even if we get there ourselves. Chances are that any alien life capable of it have already died out or are too far away to ever reach us, given the speed the universe is expanding. It’s similar to the concept of the “observable universe”, and how we’ll never be able to get past it’s boundary. Say that we discovered the ability to travel interstellar tomorrow- if we set off on Wednesday morning, by the time we got to the edge of the observable universe , us travelling at light speed, the boundary will have moved further away from us. By the time we get to the new boundary, again, it’s fucked off a bit more. We’ll never get to it. True, but space is not expanding within the local group of galaxies, and there are trillions of stars just in that, the Milky Way being the second biggest galaxy. The other thing you're missing is the time scales. Say 10% speed of light is the best we can realistically ever do, it takes 40 years to get to alpha centauri system. You do that and colonise it, then jump to the next star system. Over the course of tens of millions of years, which you have as the Universe is 13 billion years old, you've colonised the Milky Way. But there are still many variables we don't know. Probability of life. Probability of intelligent life. Probability of stable, advanced civilisations (seems quite low given the state of humans). And if they do exist, I reckon either they will destroy us or just remain hidden, prime objective style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 35149 Posted Monday at 14:03 Share Posted Monday at 14:03 1 hour ago, Monkeys Fist said: Alien Kirk might fancy a bit of Earthgirl minge? Pinching that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 21970 Posted Monday at 18:38 Share Posted Monday at 18:38 Watching the news and 3 lads have been killed near Wakefield. A mother of a lad who died in a RTA a couple of years ago is asking for newly qualified drivers to have restrictions on carrying passengers. Turns out, her son was pissed and coked up. Aye love, at least he would have only killed himself eh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7419 Posted Monday at 20:05 Share Posted Monday at 20:05 Is cratfywank moaning that the white rapists got longer sentences than the brown rapists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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