use-livecode Digest, Vol 102, Issue 49

Thomas McGrath III mcgrath3 at mac.com
Sat Mar 24 20:54:05 EDT 2012


I didn't take either comment as overly argumentative but more like a challenge (which we tend to do on this list from time to time). For me, coming up with two criteria is intriguing and caught my interest. I would love to see more on the validity of those two criteria, but what really interested me was how Roger translated those to an interesting LC project. Very cool. I would love to hear more about that.

-- Tom McGrath III
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On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Roger Guay wrote:

> Tim,
> 
> I don't pretend to know anything! As for my thesis, I am merely making assumptions based on statistics and the vast size of our galaxy and the number of stars it contains. No one has decided anything about the nature of our species except the religious. BTW, did you look at the simulation?
> 
> I think it might be best to take any further discussions of this nature off-list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger
> 
> 
> On Mar 24, 2012, at 6:03 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:44:21 -0700
>> From: Tim Jones <tolistim at me.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts
>> Message-ID: <DABD6B02-27FE-40E6-8DF5-3144FCE874FF at me.com>
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>> 
>> Ready to defend your thesis?  Let me toss out two great Sci-Fi antithesis to your points below -
>> 
>> How have we determined how long the "relatively short duration" of the radio stage of any societies is?
>> 
>> How have we decided, even taking asynchronous development into account, that humans aren't the most mature and advanced species in the nearby galaxy?
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 			
>>> The SETI project has been in existence for about 50 years, and Enrico Fermi's question asked in the 1940's, "Where is everybody?" is still germane today.
>>> 
>>> I think I have finally succeded in building a simulation of two criteria relevant to this SETI "problem": 1) The asynchronous evolution of intelligence throughout the galaxy couple with 2) the relatively short duration of the radio stage of alien technologies.
>>> 
>>> You can download this stack at:
>>> 
>>> 							https://idisk.mac.com/irog//Public/SETIproblem.livecode
>>> 
>>> I welcome any feedback.
>>> 
>>> Thanks and cheers,
>>> Roger Guay
>>> ___________
> 
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