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Exactly, Aarojw. And anyway, in one of the minor prophets (Amos sticks in my head for some reason), it refers to the earth as round. And where on earth are you getting that bit about Noah and Job...?! Enoch walked with God. But Job never said that no one walked with God. As for you, alway, non-interference assumes that what they're doing is fine. You seem to say that exploitation is wrong, but if an alien race we, hypothetically, encounter is exploit

To reply to Overseer, you haven't yet proven your first claim. Your second and third claims are flawed, since we don't really know what chemicals were present in the primordial soup (indeed, our guesses have been derived from what we think could have produced life (which, again, is mere speculation on our own parts), which is circular reasoning). And to reply to your fourth, I HAVE cited my statistics, from The Privileged Planet, by Dr. Guillermo Gonzales, a professor of astr

And, as a good many of you want to know where I got the figure from, I got the number 1/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 from The Privileged Planet , by Guillermo Gonzales, a professor of Astronomy at the University of California at Berkely...

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="10" id="2168159"]I agree with Survivorman thus far, or atleast his approach. An alien species would be adapted to its own environment. They may not even have a concept of war, or peace, or trade, or religion, or any one of these or another. They could have have been born unto an extremely docile environment, so years of evolution and growth would/could give them no concept of the "survival of the fittest" or perhaps war. The reverse could a

Whether or not the hypothetical alien species is anything like us at all, it still must obey the laws of physics. Using only one criterion (that there should be no deadly radiation), we can eliminate over 99 % of the stars in the universe. Each successive criterion (and there are many: the recipe for life is much more complex than "just add water") takes away over 90 % of the remaining stars. Further, why do we keep assuming that all stars have planets? To be sure, we

While God has not perhaps, “Imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God”, for some people have quite obviously no idea of God, and some worse than none, he has left us with a great witness to his existence in the form of our own existence: so long as we have our selves, and know we have our selves, we also know that there is a Go

I always laugh when I see people say that the discovery of alien life will be the death-knell of Christianity. It only makes Theism more attractive, not less. You see, while water is integral to life, not all planets with water are habitable. (at least by complex life; bacteria are probably all over the place.) The probability of a planet coming into existence without any outside Intelligence directing it, and being able to support life any more complex than that found

If humanity ever obtained the level of technology necessary for interstellar travel, it would simply exploit that knowledge to destroy itself. The only society I can see being stable enough for any kind of interplanetary imperialism is one founded on the principles of "Ingsoc". And in such a society, interplanetary travel would do more harm than good: it might raise the quality of life, and if you have read Emmanuel Goldstein's Book, you know just how dangerous to Ingsoc t

To answer your question, yes you have a dirty mind...

I definitely agree that the Vasari Antorak Maurauder is TERRIBLE. For the TEC, I'd have to go with the Cielo Command Cruiser. It is useful, but not nearly as useful as the Iconus Guardian or Serevun Overseer. And for the Advent, I positively despise the Revelation Battle Cruiser When I'm playing AGAINST the TEC, I loathe Marza Dreadnoughts, but especially Hoshiko Robotics Cruisers. The repair drones mean that it takes forever to get through the e

[quote]Having money hungry capitalist companies in charge of the lives of several hundred million people?You heard of how greedy companies in charge of Hospitals have denied life-dependant operations because the patients could not pay?[/quote] And this is a bad thing...? If they can't pay, they die. It's as simple as that. Money is a way of recompense for your productivity. If you don't have enough money to pay for your medical bills, then you obviously weren't productive enough, an

[quote]And matter can be destroyed....turning in to energy.. E=mc^2 read up on it[/quote] That equation proves that mass and energy are interchangeable, not that either can be destroyed. [quote]If I had to grade you for your rhetoric, I would give that a solid F. You managed to use two non-sequiturs, a red herring, and a false premise all in the same paragraph. Who taught you formal argumentation, and where can I go to slap them?Your explanation of thermodynamics earns a passin

[quote]Then again, some theorists swear by intelligent design.[/quote] Hmmmm...? The Second Law of Thermodynamics clearly states that all energy in the universe is rapidly becoming unusable. If this be so, then it follows that eventually there will no longer be usable energy in the universe, unless more is being created. Which directly contradicts the [I]First[/I] Law of Thermodynamics, as it states that energy (and matter) can be neither created nor destroyed. We therefore are left

Well, since exploration and experimentation ain't happening, the best we can do is calculate.

Thank you for clarifying, but as I said, that is an extremely low estimate, and it is most likely far less common than that!

The majority of my figures come from the publications of various universities such as Princeton, MIT, Cambridge, etc. And as far as Heritor goes, that is preposterous; the idea of flight was absurd to the natural philosophers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century because it was just that: absurd. The idea was not mathematically impossible, simply technologically. As it is, we have twenty billion years left to get two and two to make seven...

[quote]Then why have scientists found some particles that are moving faster than the speed of light. the answer is they haven't. massless particles move at the speed of light - the only thing that can break c is quantum effects on two entangled particlesya there called Tachyon particles and they move faster then the speed of light but unstable[/quote] Those are purely fictional.

And as far as the idea of our detection methods being faulty or our definition of life being narrow, what I, or anyone else, for that matter, has said has absolutely nothing to do with detecting planets; even if we assume that every star in the galaxy has eight planets, we still are left with the probability of one life-supporting planet for every few hundred galaxies. Our definition of life is perhaps narrow, but it is not by any means narrow-minded; it is chemically quite impossible for life

No; I'm not; these figures are very much correct and they come from mainstream science publications.

When did I say estimate? I said [I]calculate[/I]. And I would say that the universe, despite its immensity, is still limited to the rule of one naturally habitable planet per galaxy, at the very most. It is far more likely that one planet in a few hundred galaxies will be able to support complex life, and furthermore, as I said, we are not guaranteed that life arises on every planet capable of supporting it. Once again, the probability is [I]not[/I] favorable; it has been calculated that it

Well, we've all been assuming so far that the universe is infinite. That is quite impossible. It is, of course, quite impossible to move any faster than the speed of light; that has been conclusively mathematically proven, and not merely by Einstein. This light barrier is not, as some of you have suggested, simply a pessimistic idea that something cannot be done with our technology; it is a mathematical fact that no matter how fast you go, light will still be moving faster. If this be so, th

Explore planets. Eventually, you will discover that one of your planets has space-ponies on it, giving you the award.

Well, I have absolutely NO experience with the TEC, but I have found that the Vasari do quite well by first maxing out the resource collection tech, then EVERYTHING in the "Oppression" branch, then everything except returning armada in "phase mastery", followed by all the technologies in the "nanotechnology" branch except salvage and nano-weapons jammer thingy. Then get the antimatter interference, charged missiles, inertial field, and capital ship level-up upgrades in prototypes, then everythi

[quote]seriously the archon are a different race[/quote] Nope; the archons are simply the merged souls of two high (or dark) templar.

Either Alexandre Dumas or P.G. Wodehouse...