[ANN/OT] - Nice Review Of My LiveCode Simulation

[Bob Sneidar]

That is very interesting. It appears that if we ever receive radio transmissions from deep space, it is highly unlikly that the civilization that created them still exist. The times it took to get here are so vast it's questionable that any life existed on the earth when the signals began their long trek across the vastness of space.

If we could answer the question, "Is anybody out there?" affirmatively and send it back on its way, in a few million years they might get the reply, and in another few million years we might get back an answer, "Oh... right. Sorry, we figured it out already."

Which begs the question... Why? Why listen at all? What could we hope to gain? If we ask a question we will never get an answer in anything like a timely manner and it is extremely doubtful anyone would be listening when it arrives.

It's because people are incapable of grasping the immensity of space that they can entertain the notion that we could communicate with anyone "out there" even if we could understand them and they us. So I ask again, why?

Bob S


On Nov 2, 2015, at 16:22 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassador at fourthworld.com>> wrote:

Roger Guay wrote:
I am very pleased to announce that my LiveCode app, AlienCivilizationDetection was reviewed by Stephen Webb, the author of “If The Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where Is Everybody?” here:

http://stephenwebb.info/fermi-paradox/a-seti-simulation/ <http://stephenwebb.info/fermi-paradox/a-seti-simulation/>

Needless to say, many of you on this list deserve the credit, and I thank you for all the help!

Super cool, Roger - congrats.

And thanks for posting the LC stack.

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Richard Gaskin