First Contact: What might it look like?
Re: First Contact: What might it look like?
by The Dharma Bum » Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:25 pm
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Re: First Contact: What might it look like?
by J.K. Gregg » Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:51 pm
I watched the first few minuets and had to stop. Is that big web thing supposed to be a von Neumann probe?
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Re: First Contact: What might it look like?
by eynon81 » Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:36 pm
fun food for thought. In college we talked about stuff like this all the time, because we were nerds, one of my good buddies was an astro-physics/astronomy guy and he explained that it's entirely possible, due to the fact that until relatively recently (6-7 billion years ago) there was just too much radiation around, that we were the first intelligent species to evolve in our neck of the universe.
in which case:
in which case:
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Re: First Contact: What might it look like?
by The Dharma Bum » Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:48 pm
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Re: First Contact: What might it look like?
by Hyperion » Sat Jan 26, 2013 2:13 am
They will communicate with us telepathically, bringing great riches such as invisible force fields and the end to all famines. All of these miracles will allegedly be inscribed in a weird book with the conspicuous title, 'To Serve Man.'
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