"Intelligent Life at Proxima Centauri? For real or not?" Topic
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 Parzival  | 14 Oct 2024 8:40 a.m. PST |
link Well, the guy's not a scientist, but he definitely has the connections (filmmaker for NASA), and he sounds credible… and the actual scientists aren't denying it. They're just saying "when we're done, we'll publish what we find." Consider the following:
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our the Solar System (excluding our Sun, of course). Only 4.2 light years away. We can't get there yet (at least in a reasonable amount of time), but we're not all that far from developing interstellar probe capability at that range (solar sails being the easiest approach). In any case, the signal (detect in 2019) would have left the PC system in 2015.
Whatever the scientists conclude (or don't), that signal is worth checking out. Hey, Elon… you have a warp drive in your plans? |
| pzivh43 | 14 Oct 2024 11:30 a.m. PST |
I, for one, welcome our Proxima Centauri overlords. |
| Covert Walrus | 14 Oct 2024 3:01 p.m. PST |
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm not seeing anything particularly extraordinary here, though we are at the stage of detection systems where this *might* be detectable. However, like the Globe Earth or the Moon landing, no amount of evidence either way will convince those who doubt the "official story". |
| Stryderg | 14 Oct 2024 7:57 p.m. PST |
Using humans as a base line, "intelligent" might be a pretty low bar. |
| Zephyr1 | 14 Oct 2024 8:51 p.m. PST |
"I, for one, welcome our (strikethrough) Centauri overlords." Fixed that for you ;-)
(I hope we get Vir for our Emperor… ;-) |
| Moonbeast | 16 Oct 2024 12:46 p.m. PST |
"Fixed that for you ;-)
(I hope we get Vir for our Emperor… ;-)" They had some cool hair styles for sure. Was Gorgio sent here as an ambassador? ;) |
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