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Maybe the answer is to use fewer resources...

AHB — 6/5/2009 3:38:41 AM (archived)

... at least in the exploration phase.

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Aliens may have economic issues, too - Socrates II - 6/4/2009 6:17:23 PM
- Think of seeds, not ivy+another solution to the paradox - sawyer - 6/6/2009 12:11:38 PM
- re: Aliens may have economic issues, too - Buck Galaxy - 6/5/2009 4:51:57 AM
  - Does ALIEN LIFE have 2 Have Bodies? - carl - 6/5/2009 7:47:29 PM
    - Life as we do not know it. - ER - 6/5/2009 9:47:37 PM
      - re: Life as we do not know it. - Marsby - 6/6/2009 5:27:52 AM
        
        Furs, tobacco and Aztec silver. - ER - 6/6/2009 12:08:53 PM
    - Can beings exist as pure energy? - Socrates II - 6/5/2009 8:15:43 PM
- Maybe the answer is to use fewer resources... - AHB - 6/5/2009 3:38:41 AM
- Interstellar travel is impossible, not just uneconomical - mip - 6/5/2009 2:44:05 AM
  - False - Fusion sufficient - Marsby - 6/6/2009 4:53:53 AM
    - 'fraid not - mip - 6/6/2009 2:25:46 PM
      - 1 a non issue, 2 is a potential issue - Marsby - 6/6/2009 5:21:40 PM
        
        LOL - mip - 6/6/2009 10:17:36 PM
        
        LOL=Nothing Inelligent to add - Marsby - 6/8/2009 2:41:51 AM
        
        re: LOL - gbaikie - 6/7/2009 2:01:56 AM
        
        Are you actually suggesting - mip - 6/7/2009 4:15:09 AM
        
        re: Are you actually suggesting - gbaikie - 6/7/2009 12:01:07 PM
        
        Delta-V is only one criterion - mip - 6/7/2009 3:00:45 PM
  - Engineering Aliens - Think of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein - ER - 6/5/2009 11:37:46 AM
    - FAST interstellar travel has a lot of hurdles for us at present - Socrates II - 6/5/2009 1:37:53 PM
      - We put our human limitations on any possible aliens. - REB - 6/5/2009 2:52:15 PM
        
        Not trying to - Socrates II - 6/5/2009 3:13:09 PM
        
        re: Not trying to - phil - 6/5/2009 11:38:09 PM
        
        But what if that one species showed up a long time ago and left? - Socrates II - 6/6/2009 2:54:46 AM
        
        Like I said, interstellar travel is impossible - mip - 6/6/2009 2:53:52 AM
        
        Anthropocentric assumptions abound - S - 6/6/2009 6:19:06 PM
        
        Wishful Thinking - mip - 6/6/2009 10:40:12 PM
        
        That's simply an anthropocentric POV - S - 6/6/2009 11:03:56 PM
        
        Utter Bilge - mip - 6/6/2009 11:12:13 PM
        
        For humans (n/t) - S - 6/6/2009 11:41:27 PM
        
        Yes, and apparently for all life in the universe as well (n/t) - mip - 6/7/2009 1:03:18 AM
        
        According to J. Richard Gott the Third - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 2:36:27 PM
        
        The Flawed Assumption - Marsby - 6/6/2009 5:13:07 AM
        
        Okay, maybe I am the slow one, but... - Socrates II - 6/6/2009 3:02:25 AM
        
        Please allow me..... to shoot it down - mip - 6/6/2009 2:14:08 PM
        
        What about slow interstellar travel in general? - Socrates II - 6/7/2009 12:49:09 PM
        
        re: What about slow interstellar travel in general? - mip - 6/7/2009 2:57:56 PM
        
        Why don't you want humans to have interstellar travel, mip? - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 1:50:29 PM
        
        re: Why don't you want humans to have interstellar travel, mip? - gbaikie - 6/8/2009 8:29:36 PM
        
        Who in this solar system is building actual starships? - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 8:48:25 PM
        
        re: Who in this solar system is building actual starships? - gbaikie - 6/9/2009 4:22:10 AM
        
        re: something small, at light speed - nick hoffman - 6/9/2009 2:21:48 PM
        
        re: something small, at light speed - gbaikie - 6/10/2009 2:59:12 AM
- re: Aliens may have economic issues, too - phil - 6/4/2009 11:36:01 PM
  - They did not make the assumption that you belittled them for making. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/5/2009 2:04:50 AM
    - Uh read the quote - Marsby - 6/5/2009 4:48:13 AM
      - re: Uh read the quote - alcaray - 6/5/2009 8:06:32 PM
        
        Focus - Marsby - 6/6/2009 4:44:42 AM
        
        Just turn the knob to the right, a little bit (or in Phil's case, to the left). - alcaray - 6/6/2009 5:14:40 AM
        
        Simplifying It - Marsby - 6/6/2009 5:34:53 AM
        
        I agree with you in that I do not "think it is a reasonable assumption". - alcaray - 6/6/2009 5:52:49 AM
        
        re: I agree with you in that I do not "think it is a reasonable assumption". - Marsby - 6/6/2009 5:57:51 AM
      - re: Uh read the quote - phil - 6/5/2009 12:54:20 PM
- Speculative - Raoul - 6/4/2009 8:53:55 PM
- re: Aliens may have economic issues, too - gbaikie - 6/4/2009 7:57:17 PM

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