If there was 1 Question you would Like Answered...

[Lemon Drop Husker]

If there was one single question that you could ask, and it would undoubtedly be answered, what question would you ask?


There is one single caveat though. You can't ask if there is life after death, or anything relating to Heaven or Hell.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

Me

I'd like to know if there is other 'intelligent' life than us.

I mean, you really have to think about the age of our universe. While we are looking for life, and at a point of maybe being successful, the universe is over 17 Billion years old, and we aren't the oldest bunch.

We are in a 50 year window in which we are looking, but what if some other Earth was looking a billion years ago and we were nothing?

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker

Me

I'd like to know if there is other 'intelligent' life than us.

"Us" is a big assumption.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

Originally Posted by Clocker

"Us" is a big assumption.

I wasn't including you.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker

If there was one single question that you could ask, and it would undoubtedly be answered, what question would you ask?


There is one single caveat though. You can't ask if there is life after death, or anything relating to Heaven or Hell.

How 'bout relating to purgatory?

[RunForTheRoses]

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Who put the bomp in the bomp shoo bomp?

I have too many questions.

[incoming]

The History Channel has a documentary called Ancient Aliens. They use this concept to answer many ancient mysteries. Mythical gods in ancient cultures i.e. Greece. They also used aliens to explain many of the architectural marvels of ancient cultures, such as, pyramids located around the globe.

70% of Earth is under water, who knows those secrets?.....my question

[RunForTheRoses]

Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker

Me

I'd like to know if there is other 'intelligent' life than us.

I mean, you really have to think about the age of our universe. While we are looking for life, and at a point of maybe being successful, the universe is over 17 Billion years old, and we aren't the oldest bunch.

We are in a 50 year window in which we are looking, but what if some other Earth was looking a billion years ago and we were nothing?

That is a very interesting question.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Fermi paradox is named after physicist Enrico Fermi and refers to the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for and various high probability estimates[1] of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.[2]
The basic points of the argument were more fully developed in a 1975 paper by Michael H. Hart and include[3]:
There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun,[4][5] and many of these stars are billions of years older than the Solar system.[6][7]
With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets,[8][9] and if the Earth is typical, some may have already developed intelligent life.
Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years.[3]

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker

Me

I'd like to know if there is other 'intelligent' life than us.

I mean, you really have to think about the age of our universe. While we are looking for life, and at a point of maybe being successful, the universe is over 17 Billion years old, and we aren't the oldest bunch.

We are in a 50 year window in which we are looking, but what if some other Earth was looking a billion years ago and we were nothing?

1. Life? ... Yes
2. Intelligent life ... Doubtful
3. Like us? ... Absolutely not.

The building blocks and precise requirements to accommodate intelligent life are so complex, its truly hard to imagine. While there are billions of potential candidates in the universe. The building process usually breaks down before it barely starts. There are (millions) of circumstances that must follow an order to result in life close to ours.
A different form of intelligent life totally uncommon with ours is always a theory to toss around. Here, no physical structure is involved, only a pattern of unidentifiable waves with a coordinated order..something far beyond our ability to understand. Perhaps an entirely separate dimension or universe with properties unlike ours.

[Marshall Bennett]

My 50 dollar question would be "how much longer will humans inhabit the earth"? My guess would be somewhere between 20 and 200. I can't imagine the madness and hatred co-existing with advanced technology.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

My 50 dollar question would be "how much longer will humans inhabit the earth"? My guess would be somewhere between 20 and 200. I can't imagine the madness and hatred co-existing with advanced technology.

Now that is downright depressing.

[barahona44]

PEOPLE might not be around but the world isn't going to disappear anytime soon.

And with an estimated 1 septillion stars (that'a 1 followed by 24 zeroes), I think it's ridiculous to think there is no other form of life out there.Astronomers have identified several star/planet combos just in the Milky Way that are similiar to our Sun/Earth distances and size.

If so, I wonder if they have horse racing out there.

[michiken]

A good one for today!

Why was Big Brown eased in the Belmont ???

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by michiken

A good one for today!

Why was Big Brown eased in the Belmont ???

I have a better one: Who's going to win the Belmont today?

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by michiken

A good one for today!

Why was Big Brown eased in the Belmont ???

Because his jockey was an idiot and wouldn't let Mr. Brown run like hell. Brown tells jockey " well fk you then".