dimreepr

In France, it's illegal to call a pig Napoleon...

Doesn't that explain the Fermi paradox? You may as well be talking about the teapot orbiting Jupiter...

Not at all, facts requires faith for us to accept them, truth is just waiting for us to prove it wrong, again... Why are they required? I can sit here and ponder many thing's and I have no direct information on anything beyond what I think I'm experiencing. Who taught you that?

Really? Intelligent life has to evole somewhere, that retains an atmosphere to live in, long enough to develope an intelligent approach to escaping a gravity well that retains an atmosphere, but prohibits an escape,,, Seems like a fine balance...

"To kill a mockingbird" would be a more appropriate type of fiction in this reality... 😉

It's a very narrow window of the definition of intelligence, for instance "catching up" to what? For instance, the ability to communicate; I saw a meme the other day on FB, I think, that said the higher the IQ the less able they are to communicate with"normal" people.

But that's not based on science, just his particular form of bias. Isn't there a maximum size of planet from which it's impossible to escape the planet with known propellant's? Not much bigger than the Earth, IIRC it's less than !.5. I think, even you, would have to admit that any visitor's have to come from our galaxy, so a finite number of seed planets; I think this would represent a further restriction on the Drake equation.

What makes you think an AI has an opinion?

Are you sure, none of them seem scientific...

These day's it's a number for validating one's worth, via the internet, which is ironic given Einstein syndrome...

Or to mention, how to hop onto a planet like ours, then hop off again with all the swag...

We can't afford to fear this tool, we must learn how to use it properly, whoever the teacher's may be.

Indeed, how much do we need, to last forever? Without a source?

I'm guessing that number wouldn't be enough to realistically sustain, edit/ intelligent, life on an interstellar craft, even an unmanned one.

How much solar energy is avaliable in interstellar space?