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- Sunscreen, on 04/11/2008, -3/+44Maybe the computers there can run Crysis.
- consoneo, on 04/11/2008, -0/+39Or they're exactly like us, still stupid, but managed, somehow, to not blow themselves up.
- tmyprod, on 04/11/2008, -1/+39The dominant species may have been around for 50,000 years longer than us, but that doesn't take into consideration if the civilization had futuramaed (been reduced back to the stone ages a number of times). Imagine how advanced our tech would be if the dark ages had never happened, if Rome had kept growing and inventing. Also consider how many times we have nearly destroyed our own world, WWII, Cold War, reality TV.
- Changa, on 04/11/2008, -0/+23Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. - diggdiggerid, on 04/11/2008, -4/+25"Some of the world's smartest astronomers estimate that some of the more advanced technological civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy..."
There is something inherently wrong with this fragment. I doubt the world's "smartest astronomers" are conjecturing about aliens and concluding that "Just like in Battlestar Galactica, and in Stargate with the replicators, the robots are going to be out to kill us!" - zspade, on 04/11/2008, -1/+22Your comment assumes any sort of 'society' even still exists to have conflicts within itself. Such an advanced 'civilization' is probably beyond our comprehension at this point in time. What we find important, even vital now have long since become trivialities to them. Any sort of conflict they would have would most likely be trying to advance any further past the apex they have undoubtedly reached.
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -1/+21Try explaining how your Tivo works to an ant. Then imagine what luck any advance species will have with us.
- hauntedchippy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+17I smell a spinoff
- Dichotomic, on 04/11/2008, -0/+16Not even just more accessible, but more recognized in the academic world of astronomy and physics that this article purports to to be grounded in.
- 3tcp, on 04/11/2008, -2/+17I'm no expert but its seems foolish to assume that any encounter with an alien civilization 1.5 billion years more advanced will be with their robots because our technology is focusing on robots. There is no reason to believe that these aliens would still face the same limitations that we do and couldn't have found a way to travel vast distances in short periods of time.
Ancient Egypt could not have foreseen that we would develop rockets, carbon nanotubes or jet engines . Their predictions of the future would be pretty far off if they assumed the same limitations that they faced. Think about the significance of the sound barrier and how they wouldn't have even known that we would encounter it much less what it would take to break it.
Maybe aliens went through a faze a few hundred thousand years into their existence where they depended on robotics but it's idiotic to assume that they couldn't have outgrown the need for them.. - MattNF, on 04/11/2008, -0/+14*their
- rastap, on 04/11/2008, -0/+14I know what you mean to say, and I agree with the basic thought. Though, sad as it might be, wars often accelerate technological advancement. This is especially true for WWII and the cold war.
- moofree, on 04/11/2008, -0/+13Skinner: "Oh excellent, not only are the trains now running on time, they're running on metric time. Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th; it's the dawn of a new enlightenment."
- twitchr, on 04/11/2008, -0/+11I just knew that someone would find a way to bring politics into this. ***** OFF
- kingvik, on 04/11/2008, -3/+14How come everybody always assumes that we are the least technologically advanced.
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+11"Submitted: 8 hr 16 min ago, made popular 7 min ago"
eyes plz - zspade, on 04/11/2008, -1/+12No, in this advanced society he speaks of, they have so transcended space and time that they no longer measure anything in personal ownership anymore but rather place and time of occurrence. Therefore there becomes the only proper indicator. Conflict(occurrence) happened(place of time) there(indication that it took place in noted place of time, in this case the referenced 'history').
Bet you feel like an ass now. - MooseTaag, on 04/11/2008, -1/+11Can't*
Don't be an ass. - vspazv, on 04/11/2008, -0/+10Without the destruction of the Library of Alexandria we could have been flying a few hundred years ago.
- MrColdheart, on 04/11/2008, -2/+12quote "And, in reality, if we meet them in space, it’s going to be true, because we’re nowhere near getting to interstellar travel."
...huh
anyway... an advanced civilization by definition still has millions(billions) of years of unimaginable progress, technology, innovation and likewise unimaginable and life changing wars and conflicts in there past history.
Our conflicts have just started to cross over into the planet changing category now imagine the conflicts that a future society has to endure who has the technology to negate a solar system.
- tsp00n, on 04/11/2008, -4/+13harry potter is in space ?
- moofree, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9*when* the earth dies.
It's gonna happen eventually. - NFicano, on 04/11/2008, -0/+950,000 years in the future, ours robots will speak lolcat and rick roll their robots at 3am.. were so *****.
- hauntedchippy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Can I buy some pot from you?
- MacEnvy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8"estimating" != "stating"
Perhaps an even better term would have been "conjecture". - toastjam, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Because, we've only been developing for the blink of an eye on the galactic timescale. Chances are, any other life in the universe doesn't yet exist, or has existed for far longer than us.
So maybe you could say we're more advanced than races that don't even exist yet, but will, but that's a pretty pointless statement. - jesuswuzanalien, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Digg used to be a science/tech site...
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7Nobody cares, shut up already.
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7but mah bible and that preacher fellow said...
- protodon, on 04/11/2008, -1/+8I believe this to be true. Our solar system is one of the newer ones on the edge of the galaxy. All of the older ones are concentrated more towards the center. So any civilizations, that have arisen there, should theoretically be older because they've had a head start. Also robots, or some form of synthetic life, are the next big step in evolution. They can exist almost anywhere and can quickly be built or adapt to almost any environment including the vacuum of space. Humans on the other hand must adapt the environment to them which is much more difficult. It's hard to conquer a galaxy when you have to carry a bubble of your home with you everywhere you go.
- 10lbhammer, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7that was just ***** retarded.
- colonelxc, on 04/12/2008, -1/+7Wont all the linux geeks be pissed when the super advanced aliens are running Windows Galaxy
- alphaeno, on 04/11/2008, -3/+9What if we are all alone and if the Earth dies, all life in the universe will be gone forever...
- eadnams, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "
JRR Tolkien said as much in one of his forwards in a Middle Earth book (forget which) in regards to the elves... HE said there is no supernatural magic in his books, just technology to the point of appearing magic... yes, even the One Ring... high-tech. - stoanhart, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6How could WWII have destroyed the world? A few million people shooting each other (out of billions) is a drop in the bucket. Only the States had nukes, so unless they decided for no reason whatsoever to annihilate the entire planet, WWII could never have been the end of us.
The Cold War is the only close call so far. Even then I think some people would have survived to repopulate the Earth. - tmyprod, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6But we never really sure what would happen the first time we detonated "the bomb". And even if people did survive the nuclear holocaust, how long would it take them to get back to our tech level. Consider, as well, how very few of us could survive with out the supermarket, computer, and television, let alone make a fire from scratch.
Jesus, I sound depressing today. I think I need a hug or something. - megaton, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6Why do we always assume robots will want to destroy humanity?
It's not like WE are walking around kicking kittens all day... - rasinhussy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6Giga meaning billion, Year meaning Year.
- duckyinc, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Yep, any sufficiently advanced madness is indistinguishable from truth - insllvn, on 04/12/2008, -0/+5You know what I think would be cool? Hundreds of years from now mankind ventures into the stars. We overcome vast obsticles such as our violent, nationalistic tnedencies and social cultural differences. We teeter on the brink of destruction for decades or more, but finally we manage it. We come across a planet with a species much advanced upon our own. They are millions of years older, maybe billions. They once had a troubled past, but overcame it in a cultural revolution similar to what happened in the sixties and all sit around producing only what the need to survive and get high on space weed. Everyone is happy. We feel like dicks.
- ComradeGoby, on 04/12/2008, -0/+5Then we wipe them out.
- Jaliyl, on 04/12/2008, -0/+51.5 gigayears? Thats over 9000!!!
- kiwiboyus, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4So will it be Cybermen or Darleks?
- stix213, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5Maybe the robots have run out of oil and now use a Biodiesel made from liquefied humanoids!!!! ohhh nooo!!!
- OneLess, on 04/12/2008, -0/+4Then came the Great LOLcat Dark Ages.
- gigasquid, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4The concept that beings so advanced would travel in spaceships, sit in a pilot's seat and have bodies is arcane and needs to be abandoned. After all, what need to travel to another star system when you ARE the star system?
- ausfahrt, on 04/11/2008, -4/+8Why the hell do people make these stupid assumptions? Why would another civilization (if they even have a "civilization" construct) go down a road anywhere near the shape or form of ours. Synthetic! Pah! Why? They could be 2 trillion gigaquadrillion years older than us and still live in trees. That is also assuming that they are anything like us which, because of the size of the universe, i'll let slide. It is safe to argue that odds are in favor of something like us being out there. I mean sure they could be fully synthetic but it's all complete guesses at this point and not educated at all.
- MacEnvy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4No offense to Daily Galaxy, but they always seem to do this kind of thing. Instead of making their articles sound more scientific, they end up sounding strange even to those of us who closely follow astronomy news. They don't use "science terms", they just use unfamiliar terms in the hope that it sounds scientific. Anyone else noticed this?
I suppose technically "gigayears" would be appropriate, but any real scientist would use proper notation if they were trying to be formal about it (1.5x10^9 years). - PlanR, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5This is assuming that a civilization of "intelligent beings" can survive 50,000 years without destroying itself.
OTOH I'm 80+ comments down, so the point might not matter. - LucifersDad, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3It could even be higher. Aliens could be trillions of years more advanced than us.
Assumptions we make:
1) Aliens come from this universe
2) Aliens come from this dimension, if multiple dimensions exist aliens could be far close than we thought.
3) Aliens come from this time (if time travel is possible)
4) Aliens come from this multiverse (if it exists)
5) Aliens come from the same collection of multiverses we are in and so on(if it exists)
All of the above would most probably use some sort of worm hole/jump gate/short cut method of traveling. This means the distance between us and them is irrelevant to them but to us it is impossible. But the simple fact is without the short cut method of travel we humans are going no where in space, so if there is no short cut method we might as well forget about space travel unless people think we will build a space craft that will travel for 1000's of years in a straight line hoping the nothing goes wrong on the journey. -
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