The Scale of the Universe

[GhostRider]

This'll fry your noodle....

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

GhostRider
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

[Gone]

I prefer my noodles boiled, but that is a bit on the large side.

[Black Knight]

Very good, was hoping for a comedy ending though with his giant nob at the end spanning the universe!
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[SoND]

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[GhostRider]

It’s things like this that make me think….with a universe so large, with entire galaxies that dwarf ours scattered liberally, I find the possibility of there being no other life in the universe a ridiculous notion. I’m not sure if I’m barking up the wrong tree, but surely if the outer edges of the known universe are 93,000,000,000 light years away, and given that the picture we are seeing is that old, then essentially whatever resides on those outer edges is 93,000,000,000 light years ahead of us (I know it’s a distance in essence), and since what we know about world, the universe and the physics that order it has only been gleaned within the last 2000yrs or so, is it really that far-fetched to think that somewhere that has had 500,000+ years of evolution more than us would come up with a way to warp space-time, master worm holes, harness the power of black holes etc?

GhostRider
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

[pinkyfloyd]

[Inkognito]

Pinky i think you're right but i also think that whatever we need to do we should do it within 2000 years as i don't see us being able to live on this planet the way things are going

Honestly i can see this planet torn apart within 500 years to be honest. Ozone layer gone. Planet depleted of natural resources. Population too big for the earth to support

I may be a "glass is half empty" kind of guy but if we havent managed to setup camp on a different planet in the next few hundred years i can see evolution starting all over as we've slowly killed the planet and the environment that keeps us alive.
I just hope someone manages to setup a satellite to record the dinosaurs reborn so the next generation can see the stuff we didn't

[pinkyfloyd]

[GhostRider]

[T0MMY]

I am positive other life exists in the universe. I think if you are of a Darwinian mindset and don't see anything unique or mystical about the evolution of life then it's ridiculous to think otherwise.

The question of whether any other species has got massively advanced technology is interesting though. Given that the experience of this planet is that advancement leads to negative impacts on the environment and weapons capable of decimating life I suppose there is the question of whether there is a natural limit after which species tend to wipe themselves out. You also have the issue of the finite lifetime of any planet and the timescales needed both for the evolution of intelligent life and then for the development of technology.

Makes you wonder if humans will develop a sufficient level of technology to leave this planet before one of these natural barriers are met. That said we only have the example of our species and our planet, maybe things are different elsewhere.

In addition to those natural barriers it's also not impossible that some things just can't be done with any level of technology. For example if we can't break the light barrier then we are pretty much doomed to occupy a very very small and insignificant part of the universe or become spacefaring nomads with generations of people never living outside of a spacecraft.

[pinkyfloyd]

I'll make a serious post debating that ^^^ on the morrow but I'll leave the topic for tonight with a little silliness

the galaxy song
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Teflon-Mike:I think I agree with just about all Pinky has said.

[Glenben92]

s'big.
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[Martay]

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my mind has died

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[Hetzer]

[pinkyfloyd]

[GhostRider]

[T0MMY]

[GhostRider]

[Hetzer]

[blurredman]

My noodle is not even singed looking at this.
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[T0MMY]

Seems unlikely that extraterrestrials would come to Earth given the number of hurdles.

You would need a species technologically advanced enough to travel interstellar distances but more importantly they would have to know we were here. I guess the earliest sign of our existence detectable from space would be radio signals transmitted 100 years ago or so and they would have spread a very insignificant distance by now.

Without us ourselves overcoming the light barrier then however advanced another species is they would still need to travel into our sphere of detectability to become aware of us. The odds of that happening given the vastness of the universe and the possible rarity of very advanced species are probably quite small.

That works both ways of course in terms of us finding other intelligent life in the future (which is a bit depressing) although who knows how the picture may change with advancing technology and maybe there will be new ways to detect activity on distant planets.

[Hetzer]

[T0MMY]

Well I say that because as far as we are currently aware, nothing travels faster than light and therefore even if something made us detectable at the point of our evolution it still wouldn't have travelled that far by now.

The point is the information has to get from us to them so it's OUR technology that's important, not theirs.

Obviously (and as I said in my post) that may change but that's how it looks at the moment so there's no reason to suppose otherwise as yet.

[Hetzer]

[T0MMY]

I agree that it might be hard to predict what technologies another species might have although I still believe the laws of physics would have to apply.

Obviously you can hypothesise any level of technology at all but personally I don't see the point unless there's some reason to suspect it could happen.