Space!

floydfreak wrote:

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I just finished counting them and there's actually slightly more than 2 billion stars in that image.

I think I spotted Theiranus.

There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Voyager 2 was accidentally given an incorrect signal, tilting it by 2 degrees. NASA have now lost contact with the spacecraft. Whilst attempts will be made to reconnect, there is no guarantee that it will receive the signals sent from Earth. The craft is literally lost in space.

However, Voyager 2 has an inbuilt fail safe - it should automatically readjust it's path later in October, at which point contact should become possible once more.

BBC News - Voyager 2: Nasa picks up 'heartbeat' signal after sending wrong command
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66371569

Sprouty wrote:Voyager 2 was accidentally given an incorrect signal, tilting it by 2 degrees. NASA have now lost contact with the spacecraft. Whilst attempts will be made to reconnect, there is no guarantee that it will receive the signals sent from Earth. The craft is literally lost in space.

However, Voyager 2 has an inbuilt fail safe - it should automatically readjust it's path later in October, at which point contact should become possible once more.

BBC News - Voyager 2: Nasa picks up 'heartbeat' signal after sending wrong command
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66371569

strawberry floating Janeway

Squinty wrote:strawberry floating Janeway

The final brassiere

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

Victor Mildew wrote:

Squinty wrote:strawberry floating Janeway

The final brassiere

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

Then explain crop circles, pyramids and Alien Ant Farm.

Moggy wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

Then explain crop circles, pyramids and Alien Ant Farm.

Bunch of old blokes with planks and rope, bunch of old blokes with planks and rope, bunch of old blokes wishing they had planks and rope.

Moggy wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

Then explain crop circles, pyramids and Alien Ant Farm.

But first make sure Annie is ok

Xeno wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

Then explain crop circles, pyramids and Alien Ant Farm.

Bunch of old blokes with planks and rope, bunch of old blokes with planks and rope, bunch of old blokes wishing they had planks and rope.

I'm really surprised the Voyager craft haven't hit anything, you'd think a loose grain of asteroid dust which have destroyed them by now.

Ecno wrote:I'm really surprised the Voyager craft haven't hit anything, you'd think a loose grain of asteroid dust which have destroyed them by now.

1970s probes were built to smash anything, they didn't take no for an answer. Not like the woke probes of today that don't even know if a Mars rover has an antenna!!!!!

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

The other option is the galaxy is teeming with life, uses a much more efficient way of communicating than radio and has Earth segregated off in some sort of planetary preserve like the the tribes in the Amazon because we are deemed both primitive and stupid.

Crop circles are just some sort of extraterrestrial NTV where we wonder what they are and the aliens are all peeing themselves with laughter at the sight.

Sorry for taking a joke post too seriously. But if there were aliens advanced enough to observe us, and empathetic enough to want to observe us, then I don't think they would find our situation funny. I think they would recognise that this planet has eight billion ordinary people living on it who bear no direct responsibility for the terrible decisions being made by corporations and governments, yet have to bear the suffering those decisions entail.

Also, I don't think it's right to describe tribal peoples living in Amazon reserves as "primitive and stupid". They are not worse people than us, they just have a different culture.

Carlos wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:There has to be life clinging to a rock going round one of those stars, just has to be.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

If there's other life out there, which I'm assuming there is given the incomprehensible number of stars in one galaxy alone, the odds of any two civilizations advanced enough to develop interstellar travel meeting each other are almost non existent.

I imagine most miss each other by millions of years.

The other option is the galaxy is teeming with life, uses a much more efficient way of communicating than radio and has Earth segregated off in some sort of planetary preserve like the the tribes in the Amazon because we are deemed both primitive and stupid.

Crop circles are just some sort of extraterrestrial NTV where we wonder what they are and the aliens are all peeing themselves with laughter at the sight.

We've been broadcasting radio for just over 120 years. I doubt those early signals would be anywhere near powerful enough to ever be detected but let's assume an advanced race could pick them up. That would mean an intelligent race would need to be within 120 light years of us.

As a map it looks like this:



That tiny blue dot shows a diameter of 200 light years around Earth. And that's just our galaxy!

There could be thousands of intelligent species of life out there, all blasting out trippy space music. But, even if they started broadcasting in the days of Julius Caesar, if they are on the other side of the galaxy, we'll never hear the alien version of Mozart.

Moggy wrote:There could be thousands of intelligent species of life out there, all blasting out trippy space music. But, even if they started broadcasting in the days of Julius Caesar, if they are on the other side of the galaxy, we'll never hear the alien version of Mozart.

Richard D. James (Aphex Twin/AFX) has that covered.