You don’t have to drink alone.
We are probably less alone than we thought. The Astrophysical Journal has calculated that there may be as many as 211 alien civilizations with the ability to communicate, although co-author of the study Christopher Conselice, believes number to be 36 . They arrived at this figure by examining the presence of a metal-rich environment, and the likelihood that other stars may have Earth-like planets in their orbits.
I’m less interested in the science than the science fiction tropes. Who are they, what do they look like, what do they want? Are they peaceful, friendly, or will they harvest us for food?
Are they technologically and emotionally advanced or just as stupid, bumbling, and petty as we are?
Do they have a profound message for us, is that message let all the children boogie?
this ones to go with the theme
anyhoo…. im on a mission to support the locals….wich is to say ive been digging through piles of crappy dutch music…found some gems tho… like these guys
who’ve apparently been a thing for at least 6 years but ive only just heard of them….im clearly slipping in me old age
eh….i guess to go with the theme i could have also gone for this one
or even this one
LOL….oh god i still hate that fucking family
I wish the alien from your first song would go after the Kellys.
Well I hope they aren’t like the alien in the first song!
You are quickly becoming my primary source of new music. Keep up the good work.
lol..im only on top of dutch music…theres a whole world of new shit i dont know about
and that annoys me something fierce
i want it all
Are you familiar with Grayson Capps? He’s out of New Orleans.
Or perhaps Big Sugar? This is a cover of Traffic’s “Dear Mr. Fantasy” which was written about Jerry Garcia.
thank you 😀
ive not heard either of them before
good stuff
but hey just incase they never made it big stateside…heres k’s choice…. from years ago
they were on one of the lilith fair albums from back in the 90s
🙂
I think if they can find us and come to meet us then they already got us beat no matter how many nutty Randy Quaids get vengeance for being anal probed.
They won’t eat us because our physiology will be different. We’ll either taste bad or make them sick.
I would hope that any alien civilization will be better and wiser, but who knows?
Sure, we hope they’re better and wiser but they probably are hoping the same about us. And we’d be a big disappointment!
Since any speeds faster than light, or even close to light, are impossible (according to Einstein), they can’t even come to meet us. More’s the pity. As bad as we’re fucking things up, we could use a positive example. Or even a negative example. God knows, we’ve set the bar pretty low. Time for alcohol!
Lots and lots of alcohol.
3rd Rock from the Sun is on Amazon and I’ve been falling asleep to it. It still has some good LOLs, I think.
I loved that show, I need to watch it again.
I think this is probably the most hopeful scenario for alien-human encounters:
…kinda brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “you ain’t from around here, are ya?”
I tend to be a buzzkill on this topic…
The Drake Equation, while an interesting thought exercise, is pretty much bullshit. Too many variables with too many orders of magnitude that we can do nothing but guess at.
And then, even if there is an abundance of intelligent, technological life out there, interstellar travel has so many hurdles as to make it effectively impossible. Space is fucking big. It’s so fucking big, no normal distance measurement is sufficient, so we have to measure it in units based on how far light will travel in a calendar year. That’s fucking absurd.
So, on top of everything being really fucking far apart, the only known way of propulsion through outer space is by throwing shit behind you. And you first have to carry that shit with you before you can throw it behind you. And then you need to carry more shit for changing direction and slowing down. Soon, your craft is carrying so much fuel that it can’t carry enough fuel to get it to move.
Plus, traveling even a small fraction of the speed of light makes even tiny collisions with bits of space dust, or even stray hydrogen atoms, really high-energy events. So you need some sort of shielding or armor or something to keep your craft from just abrading away. And that adds more mass to your craft, that needs more fuel, etc.
And, even if work-arounds were found for those obstacles, space is a really damned hostile environment. Radiation. Vacuum. No heat/light.
I just really get irritated about this topic, because people love to compare it to the “Age of Sail” and the two couldn’t be further apart than calculus and Ancient Hebrew.
They make it look so easy on Star Trek.
But seriously, even a simple communication would take so long.