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Even among trillions of habitable planets, I doubt there is another planet in the universe which holds an industrialized population at this time.
I'd be a whole lot more surprised if there wasn't... ETA; Thinking we are the be all-end all as far as an intelligent species goes, seems more than a little self righteous to me...ymmv It is not that I believe we are the only intelligent species to evolve in the universe. But that given the time frames involved, those other species could have come and gone ten million (or billion) years ago, or those other planets may well be the home of slithering sea creatures, and anything having the ability to develop cognition might well be a million years in the future. Heck, even if the SETI program were to discern intelligible signals from deep space, the species from which they originated might well be extinct for a million years before their signals reached us.
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Think of all the oil and gas we can exploit! Gold and Copper too. And maybe some Elk hunting to boot. Be more fun if they still had velociraptors & TRex...as for minerals...how bout some "unobtainium"... 
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Think of all the oil and gas we can exploit! Gold and Copper too. And maybe some Elk hunting to boot. EARTH FIRST!
....Strip mine other planets later. Right, and we'll pipeline the rest of the planets latter
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Even among trillions of habitable planets, I doubt there is another planet in the universe which holds an industrialized population at this time.
I heard it best put that the one thought is life as we know it exists out there somewhere... Or...we are alone in the universe... Either concept is preposterous...
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Even among trillions of habitable planets, I doubt there is another planet in the universe which holds an industrialized population at this time.
I heard it best put that the one thought is life as we know it exists out there somewhere... Or...we are alone in the universe...
Either concept is preposterous... ![[Linked Image]](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d62/jwp475/confused.gif)
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Prolly..... 
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Wait a minute...I just thought about my prior post...that didn't sound too much like Gus did it? 
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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HBO's got a good bout coming up Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana....gotta go!!!
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Wait a minute...I just thought about my prior post...that didn't sound too much like Gus did it? Reading his posts, I sometimes think we may be related... The difference being that I sometimes stay at a Holiday Inn Express... 
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And sometimes I play a Doctor on TV...
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http://content.usatoday.com/communi...rs-think-trillions-of-earths-may-exist/1And, assuming they are correct, what are the odds another intelligent species, capable of space travel, does exist today? Given that the universe is billions of years old, and that the life span of any biological species, (let alone one capable of engineering its own destruction) is infinitesimal in comparison. EX: For what percentage of Earth's history has a mechanized society existed? Even among trillions of habitable planets, I doubt there is another planet in the universe which holds an industrialized population at this time. Right on. Elk hunting with no limits, no fees, no wolves, and no other hunters, here I come! Of course you're assuming that YOU are hunting the ELK. On another planet it just might be possible.....
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These astronomers regard themselves as some of the most intelligent people on the planet, yet they give an estimation no better than a small child's.
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Kinda hard when you deal with infinity...
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that was a damn good fight i was pulling for the Argentine.frigging Joe cortiz had no business deducting that point.
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
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I was neutral as far as to who...cause I don't like the dirty chit Maidana's constantly pullin & for no other reason, I don't like Kahn cause he's a muzzy...that said, it WAS a damn good fight.
ETA; I was really pissed that Ortiz was a draw...to my eyes, he whopped on some ass...
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Trillions of earths? Check out "Privileged Planet" on YouTube and get back me. Yeah, I watched those- pretty good. Series of 12 takes about an hour to watch but worth it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnWyPIzTOTw
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"Astronomers � think trillions of Earths may exist." And, assuming they are correct, what are the odds another intelligent species, capable of space travel, does exist today? And if there's even one other planet like ours, what logical reason is there to assume that its denizens (if there are any there) are superior to us?
"Good enough" isn't.
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Not to mention that the image of those planets would take 100s of thousands of light years to get here. So there's no guarantee those planets even exist anymore.
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I think there probably are, but the difficulties in interstellar travel are so daunting, or impossible, that they never will be overcome. Go back 200 short years... ...no phones...no electricity...no piped natural gas for heating or cooking...no air travel...hell most people were still setting off their rifles with flint...IMO nothing is so daunting or impossible that mankind will not find a way to overcome ANY perceived impossibility... If something is physically impossible than that is they way it is. Just that we don't know what is possible. In relation to what there is to know, we are no more than a baby that can only barely crawl.
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