Space: The Final Frontier

[son of the Morrigan]

Whatever about aliens coming here, I hope in the future no alien population is unfortunate enough to have a shower of human cunts land on their planet.
I shudder to think of the damage we would do to them.

[astfgyl]

The only thing is, is that we are using current human nature as a point of reference, and for any other lifeforms to gain the capability to visit us they will have to have something beyond the human understanding of how it all works so maybe they would be benign or even beneficial.

Still would rather find them first thinking about it, and who knows, we might have advanced to the point where we might not fuck them up. I doubt it though. The first thing humans would figure out is whether or not it was edible and was it any good to work

[son of the Morrigan]

The instinct for survival is, and will always be, the basic driving force behind human nature and behaviour.
Greed is a simply another form of the survival instinct, that of planning for future survival.
If humans find another planet that is rich in resources that we require, we will fucking take them, whether the native inhabitants like it or not, and if its possible to make the natives mine or gather these resources for us, we will make them do it.

Of course one can only assume that any successful alien species landing on earth would be motivated by the same survival instinct so perhaps its better if we keep the auld heads down and hope for the best.

On the bright side, if there ever is any human-alien interaction, the PC and prepetually offended brigade thread here will be great craic.

[Ollkiller]

I'm agreeing with Hawking on this one. Some day though we will have figure out how to get to the nearest star. That some day is 1 billion years away when our run becomes too hot for us to live on earth. To be honest humans will probably be long extinct by then.

[Kurt Cocaine]

I'm agreeing with Hawking on this one. Some day though we will have figure out how to get to the nearest star. That some day is 1 billion years away when our run becomes too hot for us to live on earth. To be honest humans will probably be long extinct by then.

Unfortunately, we'll probably bring everything else on this planet with us.

[leatherface]

Pluto not considered a planet anymore. Down with this sort of thing. Speaking of planets, here are some recordings of planets from space*, odd stuff :

https://youtu.be/IQL53eQ0cNA

*the Sun isn't a planet though

[The Heretic]

My wife bought me a telescope for Christmas and I still haven't taken it out of the box yet..must get the finger out as some of the nights recently have been very clear but cold!

[astfgyl]

Looks like tonight is going to be another clear one, too.

[Carnage]

Sounds interesting, like a Bill Bryson guide to the universe.

Kinda of actually. Mind bending stuff in it. Like how the edge of the universe is just that. The edge. Light behaves differently past the edge. And gravity is not a force. The bit about vacuums blew my mind. Just loads of "fucking hell" moments.

Should have this coming in the next couple of days, looking forward to reading it. Though it's going into a huge to-read pile...

[Cailleach]

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Sounds interesting, like a Bill Bryson guide to the universe.

Kinda of actually. Mind bending stuff in it. Like how the edge of the universe is just that. The edge. Light behaves differently past the edge. And gravity is not a force. The bit about vacuums blew my mind. Just loads of "fucking hell" moments.

Should have this coming in the next couple of days, looking forward to reading it. Though it's going into a huge to-read pile...

If it's as good as Bryson's book A Short History of Nearly Everything, i'll have to get this one too.

Have any of you read The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli?

[Eoin McLove]

I read The Order of Time earlier this year. Quite challenging and conceptually difficult to grasp in places, but fascinating.

[The Butcher]

Scotty, get me warp speed ->
https://thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble/