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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on June 16, 2012, 11:21:13 AM

Title: ET
Post by: Mince on June 16, 2012, 11:21:13 AM: The guys from SETI reckon that with the new knowledge that most suns have planets and about 1 in 10,000 of those are likely inhabitable, and with the exponential growth in detection ability, we will find ET within twenty years.
Title: Re: ET
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 16, 2012, 12:53:35 PM: Quote from: Mince on June 16, 2012, 11:21:13 AM
The guys from SETI reckon that with the new knowledge that most suns have planets and about 1 in 10,000 of those are likely inhabitable, and with the exponential growth in detection ability, we will find ET within twenty years.

Don't you mean uninhabitable?
Title: Re: ET
Post by: Mince on June 16, 2012, 04:21:56 PM: I don't think so.
Title: Re: ET
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 16, 2012, 05:02:07 PM: Okay I misread it. I'm trying to work out how I could have. Senility creeping in...
Title: Re: ET
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 16, 2012, 06:46:46 PM: Unless you subsequently altered the post and the quote in my comment... (No, of course you wouldn't do such a thing.)
Title: Re: ET
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 16, 2012, 08:09:37 PM: I can't believe all this semantic discussion when we're about to be invaded by aliens!
Title: Re: ET
Post by: Bilthehut on June 17, 2012, 08:59:41 AM: Don't worry, Roger. Once they view the internet and a particular forum, they will be so confused they won't want to stay.