Is Anyone Out There?

spendius wrote:

Francis wrote-

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(Just stopping by the computer to check mail).

That's a bit patronising Francis. Such things are considered the height of bad manners in England. One might, of course, think it but to betray it is a real no-no. Especially as crudely as you did.

It is no use learning English without the proper etiquette to accompany the words.

It isn't necessarily a waste of time speculating upon the possibilty of alien life. One can make money doing so and making money is never a waste of time. Those who do make money are the priesthood. The ones who don't are the altar boys. The worshipped Godhead can be anything anybody can sell and if it's out of the range of human understanding so much the better.

Somebody speculated about travelling at half the speed of light. I should think that at such a speed passing by our solar system might be like passing by a brick in the tunnel lining on Eurostar. Can you imagine trying to pull up after catching a glimpse of Lola's lovely legs. The G force if you tried any sharp turns would have your eyeballs looking out from your big toes I should think. At the least.

I doubt that they would try to brake only when arriving at a destination, since most likely they know a little physics. If they weren't actually able to manipulate gravity, they would start braking long before reaching their destination.

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Brandon9000 wrote:

spendius wrote:
Francis wrote-

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(Just stopping by the computer to check mail).

That's a bit patronising Francis. Such things are considered the height of bad manners in England. One might, of course, think it but to betray it is a real no-no. Especially as crudely as you did.

It is no use learning English without the proper etiquette to accompany the words.

It isn't necessarily a waste of time speculating upon the possibilty of alien life. One can make money doing so and making money is never a waste of time. Those who do make money are the priesthood. The ones who don't are the altar boys. The worshipped Godhead can be anything anybody can sell and if it's out of the range of human understanding so much the better.

Somebody speculated about travelling at half the speed of light. I should think that at such a speed passing by our solar system might be like passing by a brick in the tunnel lining on Eurostar. Can you imagine trying to pull up after catching a glimpse of Lola's lovely legs. The G force if you tried any sharp turns would have your eyeballs looking out from your big toes I should think. At the least.

I doubt that they would try to brake only when arriving at a destination, since most likely they know a little physics. If they weren't actually able to manipulate gravity, they would start braking long before reaching their destination.

Reminds me of a fellow I met and discussed space travel with many years ago. He told me, "They can never land on the moon. In the first place, it moves too fast. They couldn't catch it." He didn't realize that moves in space are planned well in advance.

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Ed wrote-

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He didn't realize that moves in space are planned well in advance.

He must not have believed in intelligent design I presume.

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spendius wrote:

Francis wrote-

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(Just stopping by the computer to check mail).

That's a bit patronising Francis. Such things are considered the height of bad manners in England. One might, of course, think it but to betray it is a real no-no. Especially as crudely as you did.

It is no use learning English without the proper etiquette to accompany the words.

Everybody knows about my bad manners. But you're right, they are beyond compare with yours. Light years apart...

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Pardon me. I'm just passing by my computer on my way to the bathroom to take a ****.

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And to help pass this boring interval on my walk to the shithouse may I enquire as to how you all are and wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new... (Slam).

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edgarblythe wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:
spendius wrote:
Francis wrote-

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(Just stopping by the computer to check mail).

That's a bit patronising Francis. Such things are considered the height of bad manners in England. One might, of course, think it but to betray it is a real no-no. Especially as crudely as you did.

It is no use learning English without the proper etiquette to accompany the words.

It isn't necessarily a waste of time speculating upon the possibilty of alien life. One can make money doing so and making money is never a waste of time. Those who do make money are the priesthood. The ones who don't are the altar boys. The worshipped Godhead can be anything anybody can sell and if it's out of the range of human understanding so much the better.

Somebody speculated about travelling at half the speed of light. I should think that at such a speed passing by our solar system might be like passing by a brick in the tunnel lining on Eurostar. Can you imagine trying to pull up after catching a glimpse of Lola's lovely legs. The G force if you tried any sharp turns would have your eyeballs looking out from your big toes I should think. At the least.

I doubt that they would try to brake only when arriving at a destination, since most likely they know a little physics. If they weren't actually able to manipulate gravity, they would start braking long before reaching their destination.

Reminds me of a fellow I met and discussed space travel with many years ago. He told me, "They can never land on the moon. In the first place, it moves too fast. They couldn't catch it." He didn't realize that moves in space are planned well in advance.

Incredibly, many people can't quite grasp the idea that a certain amount is actually known about this subject after a thousand years of work around the world. Special thanks to Newton and Tsiolkovsky.

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spendius wrote:

It isn't necessarily a waste of time speculating upon the possibilty of alien life. One can make money doing so and making money is never a waste of time.

Why would it be a waste of time, anyway? Have you so little curiosity about the universe that you can think of no reason to want to understand it beyond financial profit?

I will ask you now directly, and if you aren't ashamed of your own opinions, there would be no reason for you not to answer clearly. Do you believe that there might be intelligent life on other worlds?

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One could hardly not believe there "might" be. I'm not a bigot. I don't believe they have been here, are here, or will come here and neither will we go there.

There's none in the pub though until I get there.

Galileo was interested in no other thing than ducats. He charged to have a peep and they trained it on the windows opposite to see if any young ladies were acting unobserved.

Never despise financial profit unless it is gained by evil means and an anti-IDer can't define such things and thus can't even admit of their existence. A full-baked one I mean.

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spendius wrote:

He charged to have a peep and they trained it on the windows opposite to see if any young ladies were acting unobserved.

How much? Somehow I am tempted to believe this, Spendi, you are a source of wonder.

Hey Francis, yes it was me. Mea culpa, as usual.

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He probably had different rates I should think. One ducat when there was no action and ten when the whore he'd hired was performing.

Then he sold it to the military but they welshed on the deal.

Umberto Eco said something interesting about it in The Island of the Day Before. I'll look it up and amaze you even more.

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spendius wrote:

He probably had different rates I should think. One ducat when there was no action and ten when the whore he'd hired was performing.

Then he sold it to the military but they welshed on the deal.

Umberto Eco said something interesting about it in The Island of the Day Before. I'll look it up and amaze you even more.

please. I bought a phone/camera/video/thingymajig for Christmas. You think Galileo would have thought it magic?

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No. But he would have been content if everybody else had thought so.

What could he have done with it if nobody else had had one. It didn't need anybody else to have had one for a telescope to amaze.

He is supposed to have found it by picking up the droppings off the floor in a glassblowers sweatshop and putting two and two together. He had gone to get a pork pie from the shop next door.

A phone/camera/video/thingymajig requires it to be a commonplace and thus of little account in the fame game.

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spendius wrote:

...Galileo was interested in no other thing than ducats. He charged to have a peep and they trained it on the windows opposite to see if any young ladies were acting unobserved....

Why would you make something like this up? Do you have some problem with Galileo?

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Brandon9000 wrote:

spendius wrote:
...Galileo was interested in no other thing than ducats. He charged to have a peep and they trained it on the windows opposite to see if any young ladies were acting unobserved....

Why would you make something like this up? Do you have some problem with Galileo?

I think he's trying to derail the thread by making it about him.

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HE who shall not be named, is always trying to turn any thread that hes joined toward himself, sad little puppy is "He who..."

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...wags their tails."

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Is Anyone Out There?-

is a question which provides for a free for all. It's meaningless.

What do you mean by "derail the thread". It was derailed from the start.

It was tailor-made for the anti-IDers to strut their pointless knowledge. Well- everything is pointless according to them.

Is diddums having a tantrum 'cos somebody grabbed the mike seeing as how they were boring the audience.

What's the logistics on this supposed spacecraft that's going at half the speed of light and has a more or less infinite number of points to aim at on a sphere of more or less infinite radius? Where does the **** go for example. What's the cuisine like. That on Star Trek I suppose. Is there any "space debris" on this long journey. I shouldn't think a pellet sized rock would notice colliding with a vehicle at half the speed of light. Is there any shagging? These questions, and many more, need proper answers.

If they don't shag they won't have any technology at all. It's a well known English aphorism that if there's any trouble there's a woman at the back of it somewhere.

A knowledge of physics is sought in order to get money to impress ladies with. That's why it's popular with the speccy-four eyes spotty swots who can't smack a cover drive into the fence or shoot their cuffs.

Everybody would study physics if it was the only way to impress ladies and then you would see who is good at it.

That message is in the cave paintings. That's how old it is. It was catching bison then in a loin cloth with a sharp stick in the snow whilst tumescent. The Venus figurines were their version of our top-shelf.

That's nearly as bad as studying physics without parental assistance.

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spendius wrote:

Is Anyone Out There?-

is a question which provides for a free for all. It's meaningless.

The idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos is either true or false, and so how is it meaningless? Explain, please.

spendius wrote:

What do you mean by "derail the thread". It was derailed from the start.

Please explain how.

spendius wrote:

...What's the logistics on this supposed spacecraft that's going at half the speed of light and has a more or less infinite number of points to aim at on a sphere of more or less infinite radius?

So, the universe is pretty big. So what? You don't have to go everywhere at once. If you send a ship to one particular star, say Tau Ceti, how does it hurt you that the galaxy contains billions of stars? I can go to Daytona Beach pretty easily, even though there are thousands of cities in the world.

spendius wrote:

...Is there any "space debris" on this long journey. I shouldn't think a pellet sized rock would notice colliding with a vehicle at half the speed of light.

Very true. At such speeds, even a grain of sand will come on like an H bomb, but it's not like technical problems haven't been solved before.

spendius wrote:

...A knowledge of physics is sought in order to get money to impress ladies with.

So, I guess the whole idea of studying science because you think it's fascinating doesn't hold much sway with you?

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You're having us on Brandon.

You have got your "you"s a bit mixed up at the end.

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At such speeds, even a grain of sand will come on like an H bomb, but it's not like technical problems haven't been solved before.

Like send a space sweeper on ahead to clear the path. Or a magic beam maybe.

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