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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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NuEM posted:
You think you need to mine it? Keep laughing.
"Mining" is a handy little word that covers just about any activity used to procure a resource in quantity. These magical aliens need to procure some kind of matter that they require to (hand-wave) magically transform it into energy. What "it" is and how they go about getting it becomes academic at that point - but "mining" certainly covers its acquisition. We mine for solids, liquids - even gases. Even if your magical aliens just scoop hydrogen off a near-by gas giant that is "mining" when you get right down to it.
The point remains that regardless of what the matter is that they magically transform into energy... they still need to obtain that matter in the first place.
So, yea, I'll just keep laughing.
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NuEM
Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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Good boy, now where do they find that matter? Kansas dust?
What has a lot of mass?
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Moe_Nox
Title: In Moe We Trust
Posts: 1,962
Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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Cabby's mom?
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Elocism
Title: Pseudonym
Posts: 787
Registered: 2002-5-3 01:50:00
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NERDS
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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.
Regardless of 2-4 number 1 is all that really makes sense given our current understanding. While 2 and 3 are possible 4 is just stupid.
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Friarspam
Posts: 638
Registered: 2007-1-23 07:01:27
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Orwyn_Blackheart posted:
Thugoneous posted:
i don't see why Aliens would hide their existence if they have or are still visiting here.
I'm down for strip mining the universe for what ever we want.
coz your a feckin moron
its people like you that nature didn't intend for....
Ever wonder if you've been trolled?
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Groucho48
Posts: 821
Registered: 2003-10-22 03:00:14
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There is enough raw material in the solar system to maintain us for millennium. If we end up being able to travel to the stars, it won't be to grab raw materials from aliens.
Of course, if we end up electing generations of folks who don't believe in basic tenets of science, the whole question is moot.
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__Bonk__
Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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I believe the universe is full of life including intelligent life. I do believe that the universe is so vast we will probably never encounter any of that life. Humanity should explore and colonize the solar system though. We might find some out there some place.
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