[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
I think the most likely way for humans to colonize other worlds would be to develop AI technology to the point AI’s could journey for hundreds of years to another world then prepare it for human life. The AI’s would then need to raise test tube babies and be able to love, educate and otherwise prepare them. The challenges of terraforming another world or genetically modifying humans to live on another world would be staggering but probably more surmountable than living humans making the journey and doing all that.[/quote]
Yeah, but if that was a likely scenario and if there were other intelligent life forms in this here galaxy, this would already have homesteaded the whole galaxy.
Google von Neumann probe, I kid you not. [/quote]
While it’s possible we’re not the only intelligent life in the universe, it’s also possible we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. You also really can’t rely on the reasoning of “if it were possible, someone else would have done it before”. We may end up being the first to homestead the galaxy, even if another lifeform has the technology and capability to do so. The reasoning just doesn’t add up.[/quote]
If just one, just one alien civilization has had the same idea they would have settled this galaxy in 20 million years, i.e, nothing if their probes made around 1% of the speed of light,
Of course I am pulling this all from memory but I believe its in the ballpark.
Could we be the first?
Yes.
I suspect though that we are in for another narcissistic shock, like the earth not being the center of the universe and such.
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That is true to an extent, but most advanced topics in any field require years of dedicated study to understand, but in his case he was doing it on purpose in order to sound so smart and to confuse readers to discourage criticism, which didn’t work since he is not the only smart person in the world, and other smart people like myself actually took the time to become experts in our fields and can spot an amateur pretending to be an expert from a mile away.
I did a little research and he did actually did provide his results from an IQ test. He scored a 47 (he is not the only person to do that either) on the Mega test, which would put his IQ at between about 185 and 195. In contrast, I got a 46, the same as Savant, so our ability to learn is about the same, give or take about 10 IQ points, if you think IQ tests mean anything. His abilities are not that far above most top scientists, with the exception that we are actual experts in our fields, that he can claim to understand multiple topics so much better then us that we wouldn’t understand him. It is just absurd and his claims to the contrary are just childish and ruin any credibility he may have had. I really feel sorry for him because if he would take the time to actually dedicate himself to any field and use his ability to learn he could be an expert and have the renown that he expects just for having a high IQ.[/quote]
Somehow I feel that post was for someone else.
I shall deliver your mail asap.
edit: no, thats mine.
Well, in that case, hey, being really, really clever does not really prevent anyone from being a full blown narcissist.
In fact it would make it so much easier, but there comes a point where I myself would wonder why I would only use it to be a bouncer and to get handjobs from highschool girls.
At the very least he could do is become a criminal mastermind or a Wall Street mathematician… though one could argue that this is the same thing really.
I work on correlated electron systems research, so I’m about half a century behind in terms of theory.
