Alien Pessimism
THE search for extraterrestrial intelligence is giving way to a search to keep the human race from extinguishing itself, says Rhodes physics and electronics professor Eddie Baart.
He was addressing about 100 academics, students and residents who braved the wild weather to pack Grahamstown‘s Library Hall recently.
Baart, guest speaker for the Friends of the Library group, said the use of space travel in the search should be given up because distances were too great. “Even if a spaceship could reach one per cent of the speed of light (which would require an enormous amount of energy), it would still take us 400 years to reach the nearest star and a million years to traverse our galaxy, the Milky Way,” he said.
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May 30th, 2007 at 7:52 am
It is unfortunate that scientists feel the need to set themselves apart from anything that is even remotely fringe as far as physics is concerned. Such utterly conservative views are almost sickening.
Nevermind that CalTech and NASA have been looking into exotic propulsion for quite some time now. And nevermind that in a taped meeting with NASA and the governement considering technology that could be utilized in a manned Mars mission one of the NASA guys said, they could ask the Air Force, “… they have a lot of technology.” More so than NASA, apparently!
Some people!
May 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Nick, just found this story about the ‘Flatwoods Monster 55th Anniversary’…
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3347659&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1
May 30th, 2007 at 8:15 am
A true-enough speculative analysis…as far as it goes. It is,though,spun out of the hard-core “Olde School” materialist-orthodoxy paradigm of things
and does not acknowledge any alternative views such as those of Max Planck, Claude Swanson, Amit Goswami, Dean Radin, Brian Greene, Michael Talbot,Fred Alan Wolf or anything brought forth for consideration in Marie D. Jones’s book
“PSIence”. It ignores anything other than one linear universe and light-year distances when pontificating on possible “alien” interactions with earth and its inhabitants. Alternate realities (frequency based or dimensional) don’t rate a consideration
in this “blinders-on” POV. Its an inflexible viewpoint I consider archaic. It’s some yadda-yadda-yadda that is interesting…for a moment…to read through, but not much more I don’t think. A lot of other evidence out there says Shakespeare was right to me: “There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamnt of in your philosophy.”
May 30th, 2007 at 8:21 am
UV/Bill:
Great comments, and they sum up things perfectly.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Flatwoods, huh? That’d be a good stop before your Dark 30 appearance, Nick.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Nessie!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/britain.lochness.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
May 31st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Yep, the new Nessie footage is intriguing; however, right now we don’t know the distances, estimated size, etc, and so hopefully additional scrutiny of the film might reveal that. See my post today at my cryptozoology blog.