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11 hours ago, kent_white said:

We were talking on here a couple of weeks back about solutions to the Fermi paradox and why we don't see evidence of life (let alone intelligent life) anywhere else in the universe. 

I heard a belting one the other day. Basically it was suggesting that, and bear with me. 

Any civilisation reaching a certain level of technological advancement will need to leave it's home star system eventually as they will have used up all it's resources. 

To leave their star system they will need to develop spaceships that can travel at close to the speed of light. Travelling at close to the speed of light also hugely increases the amount of time that travels for the person travelling relative to the observers. Time dilation and all that.

So therefore - there are loads of civilisations - they've just all achieved close to speed of light travel and have therefore sped themselves off into the far future. 

One day - we'll figure out a way of doing it too and when we stop - we'll encounter all these other civilsations - billions of years into the future. 

Is that an observer's year or the traveler's year?

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1 hour ago, Spider said:

Beamed up

Then dropped on his head when they’d had enough and chucked him out of the hatch.

Imagine if they had chosen Youri as a representative example of humanity. They’ll never come back, that’s for certain.

Aye, that's the Fermi Paradox fettled - they took Youri off to their temporary base near Neptune and used advanced quantum computing to probe his mind in order to ascertain whether interacting with humans was possible or even desirable. Once said quantum computer started singing "Daisy, Daisy...My God, it's full of stars" after 10 minutes connected to his hypothalamus, they put us in Galactic Lockdown, slapped a banning order on Earth travel and then fucked off back to Andromeda sharpish. There is an obscure cult back on their home planet that worships him as a God - but they're usually written off as the "beryllium foil hat brigade"...

 

 

 

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On 17/06/2022 at 21:25, Cheese said:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-public-to-view-webb-telescope-s-first-images/

First images from the Webb Telescope to be released on the 12th of July. 👀

Scientists Say New James Webb Images Are So Powerful That It Was Emotional Just Looking at Them (futurism.com)

"What I have seen moved me, as a scientist, as an engineer, and as a human being," NASA's deputy administrator Pam Melroy told reporters.

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They're doing a White House press briefing in an hour (10:30pm BST) previewing the first images from the James Webb Telescope. Full-colour images released tomorrow.

You can watch it live here:

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Here's the youtube livestream.

 

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1 hour ago, Winchester White said:

Can't be arsed with the briefing but looking forward to the pictures.

Looks like you've made the right choice. The stream still hasn't started. Cunting Yanks.

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Fucking hell. The probability that we are alone in the Universe is virtually zero. I already knew that, but that James Webb image..... incredible. That image covers a single grain of sand if you held it at arms-length and looked at the sky. And that's only a preview.

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1 minute ago, TroySwoosh said:

It's amazing, just downloaded the 4k image and zooming in is mind blowing

 

can't wait for the rest of the images

Where from?

Posted
6 hours ago, Cheese said:

Cheers Troy. Fucking mind-blowing. Can only imagine what they're going to capture over the next few years.

More colourful dots and swirls i imagine 

I find the images daunting 

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17 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I find it mind blowing theres probably gaffs out there just getting started, a few million years behind us.

I’m going to Burnley today, funnily enough

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