We’ve barely even begun to scrape the skies in search of sentient life. There are too many variables in how and what we should or could be looking for, far too little clues as to how dense or sparse this tiny part of the galaxy might be in harboring intelligent life besides only ourselves, and far, far too short a time actually searching — let alone time we’ve actually been able to search — to say with any sort of conviction whether or not ETs are indeed out there, somewhere.
As for o’rion’s posts, I can’t help but hear it in the post-apocolyptic, far-future, pidgin-like speech of Tom Hanks’s character in Cloud Atlas, though perhaps a bit less intelligible. Do you only have that one phone to post from, o’rion?
It’s less about style over substance ant more about the effort required to translate your posts into something readable in the first place. In other words, it’s annoying and those with even moderate patience will just pass your posts up.
This board is pretty diverse culturally about most things. But one thing that’s highly valued by our board culture is the communication of ideas. You are getting flack not because you’re dressed wrong, but because you choose to communicate in a virtually incomprehensible way. That’s not our fault, it’s yours.
Thank you, very much, cmyk.
Like to talk more about it but I’m
Gonna reread first n give it some
Time. U bring up stuff I was hoping
To talk about in the first place.
I can go to the library as an alternative
To posting from my phone. Pretty
Limited venue.
Tell u the truth, I just don’t think
All this stink…over style…
I suggest taking a bit more time with your mobile keyboard to spell out words properly and a modicum of grammar so we can parse your thoughts better, and you’ll see more people enter an actual discussion with you. Really… just put yourself in our … … — . … / .- -. -.. / -.-- — ..- / -.-. .- -. / … . . / .. - .----. … / -. — - / .-- — .-. - … / .- -. -.-- — -. . .----. … / - .. – . / — .-. / . ..-. ..-. — .-. - / - — / -.. . -.-. .. .–. … . .-. / .. - / .- .-.. .-.. .-.-.-
It’s capice, c.
Should I jump all over
U for it?
Give u some goddam
Lecture about bein
Hard to understand?
Colibri, yer here, twice.
Decoded me n replied.
Ain’t dead or even injured,
Far as I can tell.
And it is style over substance,
Ain’t nobody complained
About the actual topic.
You’ve read my posts you say.
Then u know what happened.
Lemme ask you, I walk in and start
Bashin anyone?
No?
Other way around?
Yup.
I ignore more than I answered?
Yup.
U n the other one sayin I’m practically
Unreadable seem to b readin me
Fine enough that thingsre
Trackin. Yer replyin, despite
The travails.
I gotta think there’s some
Partisianship goin on,
Which, fine n understandable,
But it’ll kill any vibrancy ao
Board might come to, no shit. One
Sees it all over the net, places
Gettin so inbred ya can’t even
Breathe thout gettin jumped on.
See, I just went to fix a booboo,
And its taken me a couple minutes
Just to get back herey
Aww Fuck it. U know fuckin
Well I did nothing to deserve
Mcs exaggerated crap, and
Once she or he started, the other shit since.
Now I’m done with the crap.
Ban me or keep talkin shit or
Maybe, just maybe, backvup, take a look,
Understand my op and other
Nonselfdefensive posts
Did
Not
Have
This
Coming.
Because the species is dying out, of course. There are no entwives.
ETA:
Wait, did you say ENTS or ETs?
The shift key is your friend.
Also, because there ain’t any economical return to be had in crossing interstellar space just to harass the residents of an inhabited technologically advanced (and armed) planet.
I did take the time to decipher your post and give it a serious answer. But that’s because I’m a nice guy. I would have preferred it if your post had been written clearly in the first place. So as a nice guy, I was just giving you a little advice. Use it or not as you choose.
One of the best books I’ve read on the subject. Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life. The TLDR version is we don’t really have an answer but the question is thought-provoking.
Boy, all this to what I thought was a thoughtful
And at least fairly original op.
Thanks for the serious ontopic discussion that’s occurred,
Those who have.
Kaylasdad, I wasn’t talkin war, but since its mentioned,
I’m thinkin the planetbound wouldn’t hold out.
I agree, a simple harassment ain’t worth crossin interstellar
Or any other space for. That’d just b stupid, and I doubt a
Species that could make that crossing would do so just
To get up to harassment, just my opinion. Some science, too.
A species so foolish would early on be unselected, seems
Like
Interstellar war would be really tricky to achieve. It takes vast amounts of energy to deliver a single kilogram of payload to another solar system, so the weight penalties of weapons would be highly restrictive. The only way to wage war on that scale would be to arrive many years before the attack and construct your weapons in-system from scratch; a long process, which might allow enough time for diplomacy or negotiation to defuse the situation. Most of the time war would be impractical.