Integration

Jason Abbadon · 11-08-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackRazor

On the radio show (Coast to Coast) I heard a guy on there suggest that aliens some people see are actually some form of robot. Never thought about that before but I would imagine if aliens had the tech to travel great distances in space, they could probably build robots to do the exploring too.

Absolutely- and it's also possible, though inconvient, that a probe could have organic materials on board to grow it's own crew once it travels the thousands of years to a destination (though this leave out Earth as our radio "leakage" has only been going for about a hundred years) complete with all the knowledge and memories of whtever aliens the ship's memory is able to store.

After all, all our memories are stored chemicaly- so any scanner powerful enough to record those exact patterns of chemicals, along with DNA, can re-create the original person (or alien) from that information.
Then the newly made crew could explore, have a latte and let the ship recycle them to death- secure in the knowledge of another life when they return home....assuming it's still there when they get back thousands of years later!

This kind of memory retrieval might oneday act as a failsafe against planetary disadters or world wars- there are massive seed-houses stored within mountains right now for just such a global disaster- tens of millions of seeds, flash frozen as a preserved failsafe.
So too could humanity colonize another system....and aliens could do much the same.

But that does not mean that Aliens that look SO MUCH like us are in any way likely- just coming from an Earth like gravity is unlikely.

I'd check out the Drake Equation- it breaks down the hurdles to alien contact- while making a very strong case for alien life in general.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/drake-equation.html

Hell, there could be numerous aquatic species of intelligent life out there that are shielded from radio signals alltogether! Or they live under ice sheets like Europa, that shield them from radiation.
Or they live underground.
Or so far closer to the galactic core that long range radio signals are drown out by stellar radio signals (Quasars).

Or Space God already got tired of them and flushed them own the space toilet.

11-08-2011, 04:15 PM	#36
Jason Abbadon Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida Posts: 5,490	Quote: Originally Posted by BlackRazor On the radio show (Coast to Coast) I heard a guy on there suggest that aliens some people see are actually some form of robot. Never thought about that before but I would imagine if aliens had the tech to travel great distances in space, they could probably build robots to do the exploring too. Absolutely- and it's also possible, though inconvient, that a probe could have organic materials on board to grow it's own crew once it travels the thousands of years to a destination (though this leave out Earth as our radio "leakage" has only been going for about a hundred years) complete with all the knowledge and memories of whtever aliens the ship's memory is able to store. After all, all our memories are stored chemicaly- so any scanner powerful enough to record those exact patterns of chemicals, along with DNA, can re-create the original person (or alien) from that information. Then the newly made crew could explore, have a latte and let the ship recycle them to death- secure in the knowledge of another life when they return home....assuming it's still there when they get back thousands of years later! This kind of memory retrieval might oneday act as a failsafe against planetary disadters or world wars- there are massive seed-houses stored within mountains right now for just such a global disaster- tens of millions of seeds, flash frozen as a preserved failsafe. So too could humanity colonize another system....and aliens could do much the same. But that does not mean that Aliens that look SO MUCH like us are in any way likely- just coming from an Earth like gravity is unlikely. I'd check out the Drake Equation- it breaks down the hurdles to alien contact- while making a very strong case for alien life in general. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/drake-equation.html Hell, there could be numerous aquatic species of intelligent life out there that are shielded from radio signals alltogether! Or they live under ice sheets like Europa, that shield them from radiation. Or they live underground. Or so far closer to the galactic core that long range radio signals are drown out by stellar radio signals (Quasars). Or Space God already got tired of them and flushed them own the space toilet. Last edited by Jason Abbadon; 11-08-2011 at 04:18 PM..