RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2013 at 5:29 pm by pocaracas.)
(October 3, 2013 at 5:19 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!(October 3, 2013 at 5:02 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: And we've sent probes out farther than Pluto! If, out of the hundreds of billions of star systems in each of the hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe, we can't find exolife by the time we get to the edge of our own little solar system with probes that couldn't detect life unless they bounced off of it, we get to say 'no sign of any life, outside of Earth, anywhere in the universe so far' as if we've nearly exhausted all of the possibilities already instead of only barely starting to make the first eyeblink of an exploration into the possibility of life on other planets. There's literally no way to know the odds of life on a given earth-like planet with only one to extrapolate from. We know it's possible. That's all we know for sure about it. Is it so unlikely that it probably only happened once in the whole universe? Conceivably, but for all we know, it could also happen on every world with liquid water.
But why would we not be getting radio waves?
Most civilizations would be emitting them for at least 100 years.
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If those radio waves have been traveling for 100 years... then they would have gotten as far as... wait for it... 100 light years!, because... you see... radio is an electromagnetic wave, also known as light, but radio is referred to a particular set of frequencies of these waves which lies beyond the normal visible light.
So, how many planets are within 100 light-years of our own?
not many
But let's make it easier for you...
First off, we are the result of at least 3 mass extinctions on this planet.
Maybe, on some other planet, they got it right the first time, and they've been through Quantum Mechanics some 100 million years ago.
How many planets are within 100 million light years?
Quite a few.
Why don't we pick up any of their radio waves?
Maybe they only used radio wave for a short time and we missed them.... and they are now using "sub-space communications", or whatever... or, they haven't reached us yet, or they're blocked by some star, or nebula...
SETI keeps looking. Maybe one day, we'll find artificial radio waves out there...
