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Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox
Started this discussion. Last reply by dakotah tyler Jul 12, 2014. 22 Replies 1 Like
Don't know if anybody is aware of the Fermi Paradox, or ever thinks about it, but I do. And if you have an open mind it can truly be a fascinating idea to entertain. This is a review of the paradox…Continue
What are your thoughts on Tithing?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tim Schock Jul 12, 2014. 49 Replies 0 Likes
Obviously, as an atheist, few religious behaviors make sense to me, but Tithing is especially interesting. Objectively, even if there was a God I can't imagine why he would ever require money... but…Continue
Recently Broke out of the Self Confirming Bubble!
Started Jul 2, 2014 0 Replies 0 Likes
How is everybody doing? Just a little back ground on myself I played football at UK and have always been heavy into sports. Now that my career is done I'm working on getting my masters in physics…Continue
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dakotah tyler replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"Absolutely, which was basically my question or thought, could not being able to overcome religion be a reason why civilizations cannot prosper for long enough to be detectable. Obviously, there could be a myriad of reasons, but if there is a 100%…"
Gallup's Mirror replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"I don't think we necessarily "should" see evidence of their existence.
The SETI program is listening for signs of radio transmissions from intelligent life*. But what if advanced civilizations don't use radio signals?
Scientists…"
Tim Schock replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'What are your thoughts on Tithing?'"I don't deny for a second that religious groups do some good things with their money. It could even be argued reasonably that better PR and marketing raise more money for those good things in the long run.
But the negatives are undeniable too.…"
dakotah tyler replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"Yes, the War of the Worlds lol"
dakotah tyler replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"All true, if you assume civilizations are our own age and level of technological complexity, but a much older civilization, say millions of years older, would have long depleted their planets resources and if they survived they would have had to…"
Unseen replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"Let's assume for starters that scientifically-advanced life is fairly rare, such that only a dozen or so will ever arise in the Milky Way. Let's also assume that such advanced civilizations tend to last as advanced civilizations for only a…"
Gregg R Thomas replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"At the speed of light it would take over 100,000 years for a signal to cross our galaxy, it's only been about 100 years since we transmitted our first signal into space. It will be 200,000 years from now before we can hope to hear a…"
_Robert_ replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"If by chance extraterrestrial life forms evolved similarly to those on earth, sudden contact could introduce pathogens (to either planet) that would make the plagues forced upon the new world seem like the sniffles."
dakotah tyler replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"While that may be true of life in other galaxies, it's hardly true of life in our own milky way. We wouldn't need to travel to a planet to detect intelligent activity such as colonization through the galaxy, which is specifically what the…"
Gregg R Thomas replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"Other intelligent life somewhere else in the universe doesn't matter.
Time and distance makes us detecting such intelligent life a practical impossibility."
Erock68la replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'What are your thoughts on Tithing?'"And you are supposed to feed starving children because your birth control policy is a big part of why there ARE so many children, and because charity is your schtick; put your money where your mouth is."
Erock68la replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'What are your thoughts on Tithing?'"That's like the Roman Empire poor-mouthing and saying this huge empire is expensive to maintain. Are we supposed to forget the conquest, brutality, and exploitation that made it huge in the first place, and keeps it growing even today?"
Arcus replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'Interesting Ideas Regarding The Fermi Paradox'"I would think the major issue is that we aren't quite sure what we are looking for. We are searching for signs of intelligent life that approximates our own, because we know that this at least exists in the universe. However, we may be just as…"
Geoff Boulton replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'What are your thoughts on Tithing?'"And if there's any money left over they'll help some poor people or something. Or does that come out of the PR budget? ;-)"
Tim Schock replied to dakotah tyler's discussion 'What are your thoughts on Tithing?'"I suppose it depends on the religion. Most of today's Christian denominations don't require tithing, though they strongly encourage it and will eventually pressure you to do so--but won't kick you out of the pews if you…"
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