Aliens!

[Liar]

You know, the actual kind.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html

 

[pointless]

so like rendezvous with rama only even more boring.

 

[von_Bismarck]

"It's never aliens. Unless it's aliens." About appealing to aliens as an explanation for some phenomenon. One of the most depressing pre-prints I've read included an analysis that showed a reasonable likelihood that we're the only civilization in the observable universe.

 

[von_Bismarck]

Here it is. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

 

[Sean]

so like rendezvous with rama only even more boring.

Arthur C Clarke couldn't write to save his fucking life.

 

[pointless]

Arthur C Clarke couldn't write to save his fucking life.

truth. he had some great ideas, though.

 

[Sean]

truth. he had some great ideas, though.

Agreed.

And, from the OP, Planetary Defense Officer has to be the coolest job title ever.

 

[Liar]

Agreed.

And, from the OP, Planetary Defense Officer has to be the coolest job title ever.

beats Space Force

 

[raysallx]

Yep

"’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable."

A few decades from now a quantum computer generated AI may provide our first encounter with an intelligent alien. Let's hope it likes us.

 

[Kirkrapine]

"It's never aliens. Unless it's aliens." About appealing to aliens as an explanation for some phenomenon. One of the most depressing pre-prints I've read included an analysis that showed a reasonable likelihood that we're the only civilization in the observable universe.

Key word being "observable."

 

[Kirkrapine]

"’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable."

A few decades from now a quantum computer generated AI may provide our first encounter with an intelligent alien. Let's hope it likes us.

Let's hope they remember to include an off switch.