How Many Earths Are There? I suppose, if we play our cards right, we just might survive as a species long after Earth is turned into a cinder...

bearcat

I suppose, if we play our cards right, we just might survive as a species long after Earth is turned into a cinder...

http://exoplanets.newscientistapps.com/?utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

BC

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

bearcat wrote:

I suppose, if we play our cards right, we just might survive as a species long after Earth is turned into a cinder...

http://exoplanets.newscientistapps.com/?utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

BC

Not very likely. Unless there is some way to travel many times the speed of light (impossible according to Einstein) there is simply no place to go.

bearcat

Look what technological progress we've made in the last 100 years.

We've still got a few billion years to figure it out, if we don't blow ourselves up, first.

BC

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

boberic wrote:

Not very likely. Unless there is some way to travel many times the speed of light (impossible according to Einstein) there is simply no place to go.

Agree. And if we cotinue to multplicate at the exponential rate, we'll bury ourselves in our own waste, and perhaps another more civilized human race will evove from the leftover simpler forms of living animaliculae. Perhaps there are other inhabitable places left in our solar system.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

boberic wrote:

Not very likely. Unless there is some way to travel many times the speed of light (impossible according to Einstein) there is simply no place to go.

Of course, it really will not matter will it? If the big bang is to repeat every so many trillions of years or so anyway, we all just start over. Sort of a cosmic RESET to default button.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/was-big-bang-preceded-another-universe-which-was-preceded-another-universe

Menkaure Loc: Michigan

boberic wrote:

Not very likely. Unless there is some way to travel many times the speed of light (impossible according to Einstein) there is simply no place to go.

Your thinking with a 20th century brain. There ARE ways to go here and there. We just haven't invented them yet.
If you believe we are not alone (I believe this in spades!) then the 'people' visiting us did not get here in a gas powered vehicle. And how did they find us in the first place?? Technology that's so far ahead of us that it looks like magic. Kind-a like showing a calculator to Da Vinchi. The smartest man on the earth at that time would call the calculator magic. We say, "Ho-Hum".

bearcat

Be skeptical if you will.

I suppose I should have said, "if and ONLY if we play our cards right"...

As a species, we definitely have issues, but there are actually possibilities that would could avert our own suicide here on Earth...

Besides, it's highly likely that we will be colonizing off Earth before this century is out.

It's in our nature to explore and expand.

We will spread, slowly at first, like a virus.. "infecting" nearby planets with our "humanity", and in the following generations, to the stars...

We can only hope.

I had planned to live forever, but I'll "probably" be long gone by then.

BC

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

bearcat wrote:

I suppose, if we play our cards right, we just might survive as a species long after Earth is turned into a cinder...

http://exoplanets.newscientistapps.com/?utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

BC

I strongly suspect that the Earth will still be here long after humans have ceased to exist.

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

Menkaure wrote:

Your thinking with a 20th century brain. There AR... (show quote)

Reminds me of my mother-in-law, a sweet lady, who likes to pontificate about how scientific theories are just that, "theories only", that can never be proven. Once, when she was telling me about a new scan procedure she had had at the hospital, (a PET scan) I got this bright idea to ask her if she believed that "anti-matter" was real. And of course, she said, "no". When I tried to explain that the "PE" in Pet Scan stood for "Positron-Emission", and that the Positron was an anti-matter particle, she just looked at me like I was a fool and declared that it was, in point of fact, just a fancy abbreviation for "X-Ray".

I was smart enough to leave it at that and act "properly rebuffed".

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

Dngallagher wrote:

Of course, it really will not matter will it? If the big bang is to repeat every so many trillions of years or so anyway, we all just start over. Sort of a cosmic RESET to default button.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/was-big-bang-preceded-another-universe-which-was-preceded-another-universe

All things are cyclic. We come, we go, we come again, until all has been accomplished. Or so I believe.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

BW326 wrote:

Reminds me of my mother-in-law, a sweet lady, who ... (show quote)

Probably a good idea.

Semper Fi my brother,

Dennis

bigwolf40 Loc: Effort, Pa.

Menkaure wrote:

Your thinking with a 20th century brain. There AR... (show quote)

I myself have to agree with you as I do believe there is other life out there. We are just a dot like you see in this this article. Believing in other life is a choice by each individual....Rich

Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az

boberic wrote:

Not very likely. Unless there is some way to travel many times the speed of light (impossible according to Einstein) there is simply no place to go.

Einstein does not have the last word on the subject. The real universe does. For his time, he was right. Just like those that advocated we could not go faster than the speed of sound. There are ideas coming up like bending space and time, which are based upon Einstein's concepts.

The science community think they are finding things faster than the speed of light in the Hadron Collider. Beside, the readily accepted idea of the big bang claims that the universe grew faster than the speed of light according to all the mathematics involved of where the scientific minds think it happened and where we are!

Back in the Thirty's, Dick Tracy's wrist watch didn't exist because of lack of existing knowledge, and thought impossible, but I see those wrist watches on sale today in the stores. Never say never. lol

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

bearcat wrote:

Look what technological progress we've made in the last 100 years.

We've still got a few billion years to figure it out, if we don't blow ourselves up, first.

BC

Be careful with that last line.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Menkaure wrote:

Your thinking with a 20th century brain. There AR... (show quote)

You are assuming a lot of things which violate physics. If Einstein was correct(most think he was) an item increases in mass as it approaches the speed of light E=MCsquared) Ok you must know that the nearest planets are mant times the speed of light. therefore we would have to develope technology to overcome the speed of light by 1000's of times. Unless Einstein was wrong and we develop time travel there is just no place to go.