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NNadir

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11. I often find myself saying to myself, that Fermi, he was no Bill Nye.
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 03:31 PM
Feb 2018

Now all I need is Bill Nye to explain (and possibly correct) concepts like the Fermi gas, the Fermi surface, the Fermi-Dirac statistics, the Fermion, the Fermi-Thomas Transport Co-ordinates, the Fermi level, and the Fermi Point... ...and I'll be all set.

All our communications methods consist of using the electromagnetic spectrum. LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #1
Telepathy?! PJMcK Feb 2018 #2
Sorry, out was the only thing that came to mind that fit "they might not use the same LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #8
We're good! PJMcK Feb 2018 #10
Thank you.. LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #40
They also listen somewhere in the electromagnic spectrum PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #3
Good points...also, what if they don't simply care about us? Possible. NT SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #5
Your digital TV can not pick up the old analog signals. Your digital TV would LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #9
I don't think it's inevitable that a technological civilization will destroy itself before ......... LongTomH Feb 2018 #12
But individual species simply don't last for millions of years. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #16
If we, as a species, continue to evolve, then it will be our evolutionary successors. LongTomH Feb 2018 #17
Maybe. And maybe not. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #20
But individual species simply don't last for millions of years. Moid62 Feb 2018 #24
And in those 200 million years what, exactly, have alligators accomplished? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #25
They are indeed an anomaly Moid62 Feb 2018 #30
I think we're headed for a population crash much, much sooner. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #32
Actually, almost everything we broadcast Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #26
Yes, but you have to tune in very specifically PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #29
Not as simple as just tuning to the specific frequency, but to be able to decode the information. SeattleVet Feb 2018 #31
And there are probably more ways to communicate that we ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #4
Give it time and I'm sure we will find something... Thyla Feb 2018 #6
Maybe we are the first. Kablooie Feb 2018 #7
I often find myself saying to myself, that Fermi, he was no Bill Nye. NNadir Feb 2018 #11
I think I get your point. Shemp Howard Feb 2018 #14
Maybe because they are ... GeorgeGist Feb 2018 #13
The first problem is that this is not so much a paradox as a question... TreasonousBastard Feb 2018 #15
Have you ever heard of the song Vlad the Astrophysicist? Staph Feb 2018 #18
Thank you for posting that. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #21
I postulate that it could "possibly" be sound frequencies below Lint Head Feb 2018 #19
They shut us down when they saw Trump SpankMe Feb 2018 #22
Tight beam communications, like lasers or masers, are more efficient. Broadcast is wasteful. tclambert Feb 2018 #23
That doesn't seem to me to be a paradox at all considering the vastness and distances of space. brush Feb 2018 #27
Why would intelligent life want to contact us? FuzzyRabbit Feb 2018 #28
Most likely either they have or they are benld74 Feb 2018 #33
Maybe they're out there but we scare the bejeebers out of them? marble falls Feb 2018 #34
They listened to one of tr-dump's rally speeches.. magicarpet Feb 2018 #35
Drumpf's rally speeches will not have gotten to the nearest star yet. longship Feb 2018 #37
The sheer size of the Universe makes it very difficult to receive signals from other civilizations. world wide wally Feb 2018 #36
ONE MAJOR PROBLEM ?? bleedinglib Feb 2018 #38
DU Rec. raging moderate Feb 2018 #39
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