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PeroK reacted to pinball1970's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with
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Gosh this thread has moved on a bit! I do not think anyone has mentioned Drake yet? Worth a citation, on the chance of life being else... -
PeroK reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with
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It is instructive to see how much effort and complexity it realistically takes to simply transport a population of 1500 humans to the... -
PeroK reacted to BWV's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with
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Here is a ‘real’ example of plans for a generation ship to Proxima B - 58x6 km and several billion tons. It would take 400 years for the... -
PeroK reacted to BillTre's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Like.
This is correct. Not only does it just happen, but is to some extent required for human health and proper development. Guts of mice...
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PeroK reacted to Ken Fabian's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Agree.
Coming in on this a bit late to manage a point by point discussion, but I am of the pessimistic persuasion in this. At the most basic...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.My point is that generally given how little we've done in the past 50 years, it's a bit rich to claim the inevitability of indefinite...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.There are also biology and human psychology to take into account.
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.It's a fundamentally different project to a) build a city on Earth; b) build a city on Mars; c) build a city on an exoplanet. They are...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Absolutely. The problem is that we have made so little progress since the Moon landings. In an alternate human history, we might have...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.No one with any sense takes Musk seriously in this regard. Not only will no one finance his plans (because there is explicitly no ROI)...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.YouTube was inspired by this thread and served up Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd:
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PeroK reacted to BWV's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Agree.
ISTm that so many of these arguments are so far ahead of themselves - the technological prerequisites for seriously contemplating this...
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PeroK reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Like.
With that line of reasoning, then why not just go for the entire human population if its that easy? Just build bigger. Or fit some...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.I guess you are right. Just a few days ago, almost 100,000 cricket fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). If you can...
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PeroK replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.It's impossible to debate with anyone who has lost all touch with reality!