| 2003-07-08 20:00:26
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| 20:00:26 | Shadow | well, beyond that, the chances for contact of any kind become pretty remote. |
| 20:00:37 | Lucifer | Time to begin |
| 20:00:51 | Lucifer | The topic is The possibility of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence. :: Tonight 9pm CST, 10pm EST (Shadow's helpful link - Drake's equation + calculator at http://kosmoi.com/Space/SETI/) |
| 20:01:04 | Shadow | even outside of our galaxy, and within local group, we could probably at most hope only for some tenuous communication. |
| 20:01:46 | Lucifer | There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy |
| 20:01:50 | Shadow | unless we find a way around speed of light limits. |
| 20:01:59 | Lucifer | There are about 100 billion galaxies in the known universe |
| 20:02:13 | Lassitude | Lassitude is now known as Mermaid |
| 20:02:41 | Lucifer | What is the plausability that Earth has the only life, intelligence or civilization? |
| 20:03:16 | Lucifer | What does it mean if we are alone? What does it mean if we are not alone? Both possibilities are profound. |
| 20:03:58 | Lucifer | First, can we all agree that there is no evidence of ETs? |
| 20:04:21 | Shadow | * Shadow thinks that looking at local group galaxies may mostly prove useful for discovering searching parameters to use within our own galaxy. I think by the time we discovered extra-galactic intelligence, it would be too late to contact them assuming that L (in Drake's equation) is anything much less that 100,000 |
| 20:04:28 | goomba | ask my friend Zorblak |
| 20:04:30 | Ophis | Ophis (~Ophis@[death to spam].116-81-202-209.hyperlinx.net) has joined #virus |
| 20:04:45 | Shadow | Lucifer, |
| 20:04:46 | Lucifer | Fashionably late, as usual Ophis |
| 20:04:49 | Lucifer | ;) |
| 20:04:55 | Shadow | I would agree, we haven't found any ET's |
| 20:04:55 | Ophis | Well of course |
| 20:05:02 | Shadow | yet |
| 20:05:12 | Kid-hmmm | ugh sleep |
| 20:05:14 | Kid-hmmm | Kid-hmmm (Kid-A@[death to spam].217.137.106.2) has left #virus |
| 20:05:15 | prometheus | Yes. No current evidence. |
| 20:05:38 | Lucifer | So we are on thin ice here, extrapolating from a single instance |
| 20:05:49 | Ophis | Instance? |
| 20:06:02 | Lucifer | sample |
| 20:06:08 | Ophis | What sample is that? |
| 20:06:13 | Lucifer | Earth |
| 20:06:21 | Shadow | perhaps, Lucifer, but the speed with which life arose here suggests that chances are good that life elsewhere exists, even if it isn't intelligent. |
| 20:06:26 | Ophis | Oh! I thought you were talking about an ET sample! |
