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I’m holding out hope it’s the skull from a dead Celestial.

sandworm101 8y ago
Why not? Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. When gravity wave detectors were first turned on every scifi fan was hoping we would see warp drives buzzing around. That sense of wonder, of unlimited possibility, is the real reason we explore such distant places.
- bloopernova 8y ago
  My hope is that if there are whole new levels of science that haven't yet even glimpsed, then the aliens using that science are so far advanced that we have no hope of viewing the footprints they leave across the galaxy. Or perhaps that they have a very strict prime-directive-style zero-interference policy that they've built something that protects us from seeing anything out of the ordinary until we reach a certain level. It may be that such esoteric or advanced sciences can really mess up your local star system if handled poorly, so they want to keep immature hands away from the stove, so to speak. Neither of those possibilities really mean that we should be doing anything different regarding our peering into the cosmos. There's certainly wonders already in our view that are beyond anything we can really comprehend.
- garmaine 8y ago
  > Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. Not everyone (case in point: me). We're not all obsessed with the search for ET.
  - sandworm101 8y ago
    But if you did find something, you wouldnt drop everything else? Finding any serious evidence of ET would bring the entire scientific world to a hault.
    - garmaine 8y ago
      Intelligent aliens? Yes, of course. But there are many lines of evidence which makes it extraordinarily unlikely and almost no one is looking for little green men out there. What people are searching for, and orienting our exploration programmes around, is the possibility of a second genesis and non-intelligent, probably microbial life on other worlds. That, frankly, is uninteresting to me as both a humanist and a scientist, compared with what we could be working on instead. It’s a gigantic, PR driven self-perpetuating hype machine that eats up budget and resources that could have been put to better uses.
      - garmaine 8y ago
        Asked for my opinion, I gave it, and get down voted.. not expecting upvotes, but why the down votes?

Why not? Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. When gravity wave detectors were first turned on every scifi fan was hoping we would see warp drives buzzing around. That sense of wonder, of unlimited possibility, is the real reason we explore such distant places.

bloopernova 8y ago
My hope is that if there are whole new levels of science that haven't yet even glimpsed, then the aliens using that science are so far advanced that we have no hope of viewing the footprints they leave across the galaxy. Or perhaps that they have a very strict prime-directive-style zero-interference policy that they've built something that protects us from seeing anything out of the ordinary until we reach a certain level. It may be that such esoteric or advanced sciences can really mess up your local star system if handled poorly, so they want to keep immature hands away from the stove, so to speak. Neither of those possibilities really mean that we should be doing anything different regarding our peering into the cosmos. There's certainly wonders already in our view that are beyond anything we can really comprehend.
garmaine 8y ago
> Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. Not everyone (case in point: me). We're not all obsessed with the search for ET.
- sandworm101 8y ago
  But if you did find something, you wouldnt drop everything else? Finding any serious evidence of ET would bring the entire scientific world to a hault.
  - garmaine 8y ago
    Intelligent aliens? Yes, of course. But there are many lines of evidence which makes it extraordinarily unlikely and almost no one is looking for little green men out there. What people are searching for, and orienting our exploration programmes around, is the possibility of a second genesis and non-intelligent, probably microbial life on other worlds. That, frankly, is uninteresting to me as both a humanist and a scientist, compared with what we could be working on instead. It’s a gigantic, PR driven self-perpetuating hype machine that eats up budget and resources that could have been put to better uses.
    - garmaine 8y ago
      Asked for my opinion, I gave it, and get down voted.. not expecting upvotes, but why the down votes?