For your listening enjoyment. Hey, it’s an election year.
Have Advanced Alien Civilizations Ever Existed?
Ten years ago, the discovery of a planet outside our solar system was considered historic. With advances in technology and space exploration, astronomers have now confirmed the existence of more than 3,000 planets in the universe. Astronomers now know that every star likely has at least one planet orbiting it.
The big question is are there any advanced alien civilizations out there we might talk to? Drake’s equation (1961) included a number of factors–number of stars, fraction that have planets, planets per star orbiting at a distance suitable for water and therefore life, fraction of planets where life likely started, fraction of life-bearing planets on which civilization could emerge, and average life of such a civilization.
Four of these factors remain unknowns, but one thing for sure, the fraction of stars that have planets is now considered close to 100%, and about 20-25% of those planets are in right place for life to evolve over our galaxy’s 13-billion-year life.
In a remarkable editorial written for THE NEW YORK TIMES, Professor Adam Frank ignores the question of whether there’s an advanced civilization out there that could be contacted today. Instead, using Drake’s equation, he asks the question of whether human civilization was the likely the first (or last) in our galaxy. The answer is logically, “no.”
Consider that even if 1 in 10 billion planets (a pessimistic probability) have conditions allowing the rise of an advanced civilization, a trillion civilizations would still appear over the course of our galaxy’s history.
Frank writes, “Given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.”
Unfortunately, confirming the existence of such a civilization could take a long, long time.
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When It’s Friday the 13th But Your Baby Is Sleeping
Another hilarious David Lopez short.
Keeping a sleeping baby quiet trumps everything, including a machete-wielding Jason.
Fiction-Reviewer.com Reviews SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Fiction-Reviewer.com recently reviewed SUFFER THE CHILDREN and writes, “It’s not often that a book actually haunts me … What I rarely experience from a novel, is the need to put it down. To walk away from the story and clear my mind of images which are bluntly traumatic, and written with such excellence that every sentence slices away a little more of my sanity. In Suffer the Children, Dilouie has crafted a story of not insignificant excellence … This book is searching, and for some may take a brave and concerted effort to finish; but damn, it is worth the effort.”
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“Impressed” by Sporto Kantes
For your listening enjoyment.
SciFi Film Written by AI
SUNSPRING is a short science fiction film about three people in what appears to be a love triangle while living in what appears to be a space station. The strange plot and almost incoherent dialogue was written by an AI program (that named itself Benjamin). The actors did a great job bringing the resulting weirdness to life.
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