Right! It is proven! Bumble bees can’t fly! 1950s revelation.
I don’t know who is worse: The so-called “scientists” and “mathematicians” on an ego trip with their wrong assumptions or the media which keeps promulgating this drivel while the true science and scientists get buried on the back pages.
This is the same type of false reasoning that the SETI people use: Extraterrestrials are at the same level of evolution as humans, surely use the same communication technology and, of course, are overly motivated to establish a relationship with humankind!Less than a 100 years ago we “discovered” that the Milky Way is not the universe but a single galaxy among millions and that we are NOT at its center. We’ve had communication tech that barely gets off the planet for only about 200 years. We’ve been “civilized” for a few thousand at best. The universe is 15 BILLION years old. Even allowing 5 billion years for generations of stars to evolve and create the heavy elements, that still leaves a window of 10 billion years for alien beings/civilizations to evolve and possibly die off.That means that it is a 10 million to one chance of one thousand year windows overlapping to even begin interacting – assuming that the aliens would even want to. How many people today would want to have a relationship with a Neanderthal? (I said relationship – not to go back and study them. Even if time travel were possible, it would be totally irresponsible to let them become aware of our existence.)
Right! It is proven! Bumble bees can’t fly! 1950s revelation.
I don’t know who is worse: The so-called “scientists” and “mathematicians” on an ego trip with their wrong assumptions or the media which keeps promulgating this drivel while the true science and scientists get buried on the back pages.
This is the same type of false reasoning that the SETI people use: Extraterrestrials are at the same level of evolution as humans, surely use the same communication technology and, of course, are overly motivated to establish a relationship with humankind!Less than a 100 years ago we “discovered” that the Milky Way is not the universe but a single galaxy among millions and that we are NOT at its center. We’ve had communication tech that barely gets off the planet for only about 200 years. We’ve been “civilized” for a few thousand at best. The universe is 15 BILLION years old. Even allowing 5 billion years for generations of stars to evolve and create the heavy elements, that still leaves a window of 10 billion years for alien beings/civilizations to evolve and possibly die off.That means that it is a 10 million to one chance of one thousand year windows overlapping to even begin interacting – assuming that the aliens would even want to. How many people today would want to have a relationship with a Neanderthal? (I said relationship – not to go back and study them. Even if time travel were possible, it would be totally irresponsible to let them become aware of our existence.)