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[Justin Hale]

[yawarakaijin]

I think that of all the era's of human existence we live in what is probably the most fascinating. I would kill however, to be alive when and if we ever do make first contact with an alien species.

If that seems a little far fetched, I would love to be one of the dudes selected to colonize a new planet. That would be so cool. Imagine going on an extended camping trip to the most remote region on earth and times that by about ten million. Would be awesome!

[KirbyMagnus]

[laogaiguk]

[mithridates]

Good subject for a thread. Luckily we're right on the verge of being able to discover Earth-sized planets in other solar systems (just discovered one only five times Earth's mass last week), and with COROT already in orbit and Kepler going up this year (both space telescopes focused on finding other planets) we'll probably be able to find a good number by 2012 or so.

The difference this will make will be phenomenal, because up to now no matter how big space is, we still haven't been able to find a place where we could possibly just land, and start exploring. For humans, a single planet that we could just go to and start doing things is way more exciting than the discovery of a thousand gas giants.

[it's full of stars]

I like this thread and it has a common theme with one I read earlier that linked to this site:

http://www.ted.com/

I can't find the thread from earlier but it got me onto the TED site and I am very grateful to whoever posted the link. I spent a good part of this afternoon working. This is the Stephen Hawking's presentation.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/242


This one has Burt Rutan talking about the almost complete lack of progress made since the moon walks and the role of entrepeneurship in revitalising space exploration/travel/colonisation.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/4


I sincerely hope that something is done and quickly, so that at least my children or grandchildren will have the opportunity to get off this rock.

Rutan makes the argument that rich companies working for profit can make more progress in 10-15 years than NASA has in the last 50, at a tenth of the cost. Now I don't know about that as I've never had a business head but I think it would be difficult to do less. I think that somewhere along the line NASA has been hamstrung, restricted in their endeavours, otherwise we would be mining asteroids, colonising the moon in giant goldfish bowls and terraforming Mars.

[friendoken]

I believe in intelligent life. Sometimes it is found right here on earth! But, having said that, I hope there is life out in the universe. I believe there is, and I believe contact will occur formally in the future. Formally? Yes, because I also believe that informal contact has already been made.

There have been too many occurrences - many from people with nothing to gain and everything to lose - to ignore all of them.

[jou ma se poes]

[doc_ido]

I agree that it's only a matter of time before we discover an Earth-sized, Earth-like planet. Getting there for a closer look is another matter entirely though.

On a side-topic, does anyone else run SETI@home? I just restarted and it's a lot easier than it used to be.

[djsmnc]

I'd rather see humanity be completely eradicated. Whether it's by aliens or humanity's own stupidity doesn't matter. There needs to be a clean slate!

[Underwaterbob]

"The discovery of the New World made a profound difference to the old."


Yes, Native North Americans will certainly attest to this.

and whatever would we do without Big Macs or KFC?

Will we find or be found?

[yawarakaijin]