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2015-10-31 Science & Technology

Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun

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Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Thought you were talking about the Whitehouse till i clicked

Posted by Classer 2015-10-31 00:20|| 2015-10-31 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 No.
Stay in your respective light year zones.
They don't want your brand of "friendship" contaminating the rest of the Universe, do they?

By the way, who is "They"?

Posted by newc 2015-10-31 01:11|| 2015-10-31 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 RingWorld.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-10-31 08:54|| 2015-10-31 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Google "Kardishev Levels civilization" (sp?)
Consider what happens to primitives when advanced civilizations run over them.

Fortunately these guys are at least 1400 years travel time away. Unless they have discovered FTL.
(gulp!)

Posted by Nguard 2015-10-31 11:24|| 2015-10-31 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Kardashev.

If you have FTL, you don't build Dyson spheres---unless you're incurable homebody.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-31 11:33|| 2015-10-31 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Or it could be that, once again, reality doesn't correspond to theory.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-10-31 13:40|| 2015-10-31 13:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I doubt that interstellar civilizations use light (electromagnetism) as a communication medium. We might be like aborigines listening for drum beats.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-31 13:49|| 2015-10-31 13:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Could be the reason no one has contacted us is nobody gives a flip about a planet overrun with monkeys.

Posted by SteveS 2015-10-31 15:27|| 2015-10-31 15:27|| Front Page Top

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