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it was some statistics somewhere
that said there are a few dozen (at least) stars of the same composition as our sun within 27 to 50 light years of us.
it has been postulated that our sun was the result of a supernova of a red giant; thus these other stars also must be; thus this is a system from the same parent and the stars are not too far apart in age (cosmically speaking of course)
Astronomers have found planets now near to Jupiter in size around other stars. Just a little more . . .
posted by
Xeno-x
on July 19, 2005 at 6:09 AM
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empty_handed_painter -- that is a good point that I never considered
When we are extrapulating from a serious lack of information all useful tidbits can be helpful. The neighbouring stars in fact are likely the same age and it would follow that life would or could evolve in a simular timeline since their formation.
posted by
gomedome
on July 18, 2005 at 5:59 PM
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avant-garde -- I stopped in to respond to comments and yours caught me a
bit off guard. Yes I have looked at people and told myself that I would do anything necessary to insure that I do not turn out at all like them. If that is what you meant?
posted by
gomedome
on July 18, 2005 at 5:54 PM
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gomedome
have you ever watched someone to understand what not to do?
posted by
avant-garde
on July 18, 2005 at 1:47 PM
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I HOPE I`M AROUND
when e.t arrives i love him and want to mother him. xx
posted by
mcbreeze
on July 18, 2005 at 7:07 AM
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Hopefully, the earth will still be around when the E.T.s eventually come around to visit.
Ann.
posted by
A-and-B
on July 18, 2005 at 7:05 AM
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Painter...
Yeah !!! It was a GREAT post !!! Definitly makes the mind wonder...
posted by
SincerityAnna
on July 18, 2005 at 6:57 AM
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gotta thank sincerityanna for my reading this
good job
lots we don't know
i personally think that any civilizations out there aren't too far ahead of us because they are from stars about the same age as our sun -- dozens of sun-like stars within 50 light years -- all probably came from the same red giant supernova.
anything that we don't really know about, though, ispure speculation.
CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? is one of those.
posted by
Xeno-x
on July 18, 2005 at 6:48 AM
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Gomedome,
Great post. I have often wondered about such things myself. Congrats, you are my BloGGeR of the day...
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SincerityAnna5289/
posted by
SincerityAnna
on July 18, 2005 at 5:16 AM
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DamonLeigh -- how have you been keeping?
I have to agree with the possibility of having been visited previously in our history and sort of cover it in a roundabout way in this posting. We've had space travel for 48 years of our guestimated 450,000 year existence, we can only imagine how another off world species would develop and there are so many variables. The likelyhood of an alien species being at a point of development in conjunction with our own seems highly improbable. Then when we think in terms of having been visited, say 20,000 years ago to pick a number, does the society that the visiting species came from still exist? Our societies have changed dramatically in that time period. Have they escaped natural disaster or do they have the same inclination towards self destruction that we have as a species? These are but two of countless factors that could make the likelyhood of us making alien contact extremely remote. I don't want to sound like I think that the possibility of alien life somewhere else in the universe is an absolute but as you say the place is just too damn big and it is hard to imagine that the precursive conditions to life only exist on Earth.
posted by
gomedome
on July 18, 2005 at 4:59 AM
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I Know...
...this is off your own personal reality map, but there is a lot of strong evidence that we've already been visited in the dim and distant past. Crypto-archaeology, The Twelfth Planet, the creation of the pyramids and so on.
One explanation for the famous 'missing link' in our own evolution is that giant beings arrived in Neanderthal times, mixed their DNA with Neanderthal, and created us. Circumstantial evidence includes large, mummified bodies that have been found over the years, references to the Naphalim (a race of giants) in the Bible, and the similarity of belief systems between India, Ancient Egypt and elsewhere.
Not sure what to believe myself, but your maths is a good explanation for something I've always argued and instinctively known - the place is just too friggin' huge for us to be the only ones!
How you doing, anyway?
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on July 18, 2005 at 4:33 AM
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