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Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:37 am
by Capt. Jethro
Rochey wrote:Awesome. Hopefully there's someone look back at us.
Yeah and they're watching the final season of Melrose Place.
Seriously, I agree with your statement. Contact with someone outside our system would be something I would like to see in my lifetime.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:57 pm
by Sionnach Glic
As long as that someone is friendly, of course. Or maybe just of insufficient tech to actualy be a threat to us.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:49 pm
by Grundig
So, isn't it time we started a petition to get one of these extrasolar planets named Vulcan or Andoria or Risa?
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:18 am
by stitch626
I'd sign it.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:40 pm
by colmquinn
Rochey wrote:As long as that someone is friendly, of course. Or maybe just of insufficient tech to actualy be a threat to us.
Hell if they're less advance than us they're screw-ed, we don't have a great track record so among ourselves with someone slightly different never mind aliens with pointy heads or somesuch.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:42 pm
by Mark
Yes. With our current level of "civilization" we'd be a Terran Empire before a UFP. Go us.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:32 pm
by Sionnach Glic
At least we wouldn't have to worry about our spaceships blowing up randomly.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:11 pm
by Sonic Glitch
Rochey wrote:At least we wouldn't have to worry about our spaceships blowing up randomly.
Only during take off or reentry....I suppose that was kinda heartless, but so is this:
Why is Coke the official soft drink of NASA?
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:17 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Why?
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:22 pm
by Sonic Glitch
Because they couldn't get 7-Up. -- horrible, yes. funny, i think so.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:25 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Oh, man, I feel so bad for laughing.....
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:31 pm
by Sonic Glitch
I know. Me too. Supposedly this joke made the rounds after the Challenger Disaster. It's tragically funny.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:40 pm
by Mark
I remember that day. I was in fourth grade, watching the shuttle go up. Just before the launch, it showed that teacher they sent up, standing with the other guy who was the "1st runner up". Then the launch happened, and Challanger blew up. I remember thinking that guy who lost was the luckiest man on earth.
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:08 pm
by Mikey
I think I was in 6th grade. Our teacher had brought in a TV so we could see the launch. I remember a bit later on thinking how that moment was my generation's JFK assassination - that we would all remember where we were and what we were doing. Then, of course, 9/11/01...
Re: 10.5 Light Years
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:06 pm
by Captain Seafort
Or, for that matter, 9/11/89.