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Taliesihne  Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
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Water is by far the most precious commodity in the universe.
The earth is 70% water.
Your logic, as normal, is terrible Paul.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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Koneg posted:
NuEM posted:
If you can travel half-way across our galaxy even then you're far beyond the point where you need to "mine resources".
Right, because they'll build their ships and fuel them just by waving their arms around?
ZOMG THEY'RE WIZARDS!!!??? 
Pretty much yes. They probably convert between matter and energy at a whim.
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Moe_Nox Title: In Moe We Trust
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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Taliesihne posted:
Water is by far the most precious commodity in the universe.
That's pretty absurd to declare until we even get out of our solar system, let alone galaxy or universe.
We don't know diddly about what's out there yet.
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Rikarus  Title: Ultimate Badass
Posts: 267
Registered: 2002-2-24 12:24:32
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Ptilk posted:
A few of the easiest ways to explain why some advanced alien civilization hasn't already shown up and said hi are:
1. Faster than light travel just isn't possible.
2. No civilization has advanced far enough to discover FTL travel
3. The universe is so big, and intelligent life so rare, that we might never meet anyone else.
4. We are such screw ups that no one else even wants to say hello.
Of those possibilities the scariest is number 2, because if that one is true it probably means that civilizations always die before they get around to discovering it.
I think it's either 1 or 4 personally.
I would like to a dd a 5. There is an uber race out there that doesn't want the rest of us in space and pwns the living shit out of that species when they advance to far.
But mostly I think number 4 is correct.
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Thugoneous Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
Posts: 1,128
Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
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Orwyn_Blackheart posted:
Thugoneous posted:
coz your a feckin moron
its people like you that nature didn't intend for....
Isn't that something. Want to be friends? Where are you from? I'm from the USA.
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Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico
Posts: 1,087
Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Barring the discovery of FTL travel, I don't see there being very much stripping of planets around other stars for resources to ship them back to Earth. Sure, we will likely use up resources of any planets we settle on for local use, but the time and cost of shipping from other stars back to Earth at sub-FTL speeds just doesn't make sense (aside from rich people wanting to buy rare exotic collectables). Strip mining the solar system for resources on Earth is somewhat more feasible. 
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Damnit. I want my colonized asteroid belt and moon bases like I was promised as a kid back in the 60's.  |
Clackdor  Posts: 163
Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Taliesihne posted:
Water is by far the most precious commodity in the universe.
The earth is 70% water.
Your logic, as normal, is terrible Paul.
It's also one of the most common. Your logic is terrible.
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Jorrdan Posts: 293
Registered: 2001-10-19 07:31:24
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Rikarus posted:
Ptilk posted:
A few of the easiest ways to explain why some advanced alien civilization hasn't already shown up and said hi are:
1. Faster than light travel just isn't possible.
2. No civilization has advanced far enough to discover FTL travel
3. The universe is so big, and intelligent life so rare, that we might never meet anyone else.
4. We are such screw ups that no one else even wants to say hello.
Of those possibilities the scariest is number 2, because if that one is true it probably means that civilizations always die before they get around to discovering it.
I think it's either 1 or 4 personally.
I would like to a dd a 5. There is an uber race out there that doesn't want the rest of us in space and pwns the living shit out of that species when they advance to far.
But mostly I think number 4 is correct.
I think #3 is much more likely.
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Koneg  Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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NuEM posted:
Pretty much yes. They probably convert between matter and energy at a whim.
I bolded that so you could perhaps figure out why I'm laughing at the idea of a space-faring race that magically no longer needs to procure raw materials 
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