Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence'

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

BBC News - Alien hunters

Cracking article and well put. Sounds very plausible if you ask me?

TNBA

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[beorhthelm]

how are we to detect AI machines other than through stray radio signals? i dont see how it make any difference.

 

[clippedgull]

Good article. There are more stars out there than grains of sands on our planet, so there has to be some form of intelligent life. Although if an alien stumbled upon NSC I wonder if they would decline to make contact!

COSMOS by Carl Sagan is still my favourite ever documentary series.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

Well they'll have no luck finding any on here, artificial or not.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Good article. There are more stars out there than grains of sands on our planet, so there has to be some form of intelligent life. Although if an alien stumbled upon NSC I wonder if they would decline to make contact!

COSMOS by Carl Sagan is still my favourite ever documentary series.

I think most astonomers these days believe that there is 'life' out there somewhere. A billion starts in our galaxy alone, and over a billion other galaxies. Given that life started here in a relatively short time after the earth had cooled down, the hypothesis is that given the right environment, life actually might be quite 'easy' to come about.

I'm sure Craig Venter will claim credit for it.

 

[Stoo82]

I'm sure I heard somwhere that there are 100 million 'earth' planets in the Milkyway alone? Also, I believe I heard our solar system has only gone round it 7 times. Its blooming huge!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I'm sure I heard somwhere that there are 100 million 'earth' planets in the milkyway alone? Also, I believe I heard our solar system has only gone round it 7 times. Its blooming huge!

It takes roughly 250,000 years for us to go around our galaxy once, therefore, as the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, we have not been round too many times - but more than 7.

But it is, as you say, blooming huge.

 

[Stoo82]

It takes roughly 250,000 years for us to go around our galaxy once, therefore, as the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, we have not been round too many times - but more than 7.

But it is, as you say, blooming huge.

Solar System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and its speed within the galaxy is about 220 kilometres per second, so that it completes one revolution every 225–250 million years

About 18 times, if my maths is correct. Which I doubt.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Solar System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



About 18 times, if my maths is correct. Which I doubt.

Sorry, my memory mistake, out by a factor of 1,000. What's a few million years between friends, anyway.

 

[jordanseagull]

Is there an estimated figure of how many stars actually exist? It always amazes me.

 

[clippedgull]

Is there an estimated figure of how many stars actually exist? It always amazes me.

tries to answer the question

Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered just how many stars there are in space? This question has fascinated scientists as well as philosophers, musicians and dreamers throughout the ages.

Look into the sky on a clear night, out of the glare of streetlights, and you will see a few thousand individual stars with your naked eyes. With even a modest amateur telescope, millions more will come into view.
So how many stars are there in the Universe? It is easy to ask this question, but difficult for scientists to give a fair answer!

Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also!

 

[beorhthelm]

It's a bit of a bold assumption that an alien life form could/would programme sentience into machine. I personally don't think it's even possible.

you dont think we will ever create true AI then?

 

[Worthai Seagull]

Well they'll have no luck finding any on here, artificial or not.

Beat me to it, but bloody funny LOL

 

[Worthai Seagull]

Is there an estimated figure of how many stars actually exist? It always amazes me.

And what the hell is infinity in space...does it really just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on .......................................its mind boggling really !

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Is there an estimated figure of how many stars actually exist? It always amazes me.

Not estimated no, they're sending Stephen Hawking to count them all individually.


** The above is not really true.

1,000m stars per galaxy * 1,000m galaxies = A shed-load of stars.

 

[glasfryn]

I either heard or read somewhere that the possibility of someone sitting at a desk asking exactly the same question we are somewhere else in the universe is highly possible and they might even be tuned into a forum about sport

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

This thread makes me think of Patrick Moore when he was just a giant floaty head giving out computer game cheats to teenagers.

Haha!

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I either heard or read somewhere that the possibility of someone sitting at a desk asking exactly the same question we are somewhere else in the universe is highly possible and they might even be tuned into a forum about sport

The parallel universe theory must be bollox, because if there were a God surely even he wouldn't be sick enough to create two Crystal Palace's?

Therefore a)There is no God or b)There should be no Crystal Palace or c)both

I rest my case

TNBA

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[Pavilionaire]

SETI. I cannot think of an organisation that's done f*** all for so long. Even Millwall got to the Cup Final a few years ago.

It sounds like someone's government grant's going to be cut so they've thought up another angle to justify their pointless existence.

 

[Stoo82]

And what the hell is infinity in space...does it really just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on .......................................its mind boggling really !

Space is in fact round, like the earth. So yes, it does go on and on and on. Since the universe is growing faster than the speed of light we will never be able to 'go round it'.