How many ta'ers are space geeks ? i just watched interstellar the other day , and wow what a movie, it was really inspiring and made me want to be an amateur astronomer.

we cant be all alone, i keep hearing about these planets in the news that are earth like , and it just makes me wonder how long before we ever come in contact with those that might be inhabiting those places.

I live in/grew up in a rural area, and we constantly did star gazing when I was a kid. It was an annual rite of passage to kick it in lawn chairs and watch the Perseid meteor shower.

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Originally posted by LoveHate we cant be all alone, i keep hearing about these planets in the news that are earth like , and it just makes me wonder how long before we ever come in contact with those that might be inhabiting those places.

Quite possibly never. One of the great mysteries of the origins of life on Earth is that it arrived hundreds of billions of years ahead of schedule, and nobody knows why. There is some mechanism that lead to the first spark of life on this planet, but without knowing what it was there is no way to know how replicable it is. It could have happened on thousands of other planets or it could only ever have happened here. The notion that all you need is an "Earth-like" planet and life will inevitably spring forth is a massive assumption.

Furthermore, there's every chance that even if we did encounter extraterrestrial life we wouldn't even recognise it in front of us. Certainly it's extremely unlikely there would be any "contact". An alien intelligence would most likely be completely incomprehensible.

I remember going camping a few years ago in the countryside and we went to the pub in the evening and got pissed. Walking back to the tent in the dark we fell over in this big field and just laid there staring at the night sky for several hours. It was exceptionally clear that night and we saw more shooting stars in a couple of hours than in the rest of my life combined.

The universe might not be full of intelligent life but it's still an incredible place.

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Fuck Interstellar.

Get some Neil Degrasse Tyson in your life; he's the man.

Huge space nerd. I can tell you all about quantum mechanics, cosmology & theoretical physics. It’ll all be wrong of course, but I can still tell you all about it.

And to echo what jack said above, the universe is so stupidly big the chances of us ever being able to contact anyone is remote indeed.

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Originally posted by OrangestO Fuck Interstellar. Get some Neil Degrasse Tyson in your life; he's the man.

Neil degrasse Tyson is an Uncle Tom. He'll do a lil jig and shine your shoes if you flip him a quarter

Eric I hadn't seen you in so long I started to think you got sent to the box.

Nothing makes me hate something that I love than listening to a bunch of fagot nerds emote over it.

Interstellar was shite

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On djshire don't give a fuck.

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Originally posted by Intellekshual Rave to the grave.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid djshire, you're a cool nigga.

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Originally posted by Taipan Agreed. You da man!

Once, when I took acid, the stars were falling down. Siiiiiiiiiiick

Lovehate you look like Murph from interstellar!

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow Eric I hadn't seen you in so long I started to think you got sent to the box. Nothing makes me hate something that I love than listening to a bunch of fagot nerds emote over it.

I'm back now go home and get your fuckin shine box