Conspiracy Theory

[Cheasty]

@Batigol

No there wont be. But one way or another, our planet will eventually die. As will our star. We are the only intelligent life in the universe (that we know of). We have a responsibility to survive, otherwise, for all we know, intelligence and consciousness goes with us. For eternity.

I’d argue we also have a responsibility to seek out new horizons anyway. It literally produces the best in us, forcing new and better technologies to be discovered. Space has opened the door to so much that is good that exploration, dangerous and all as it is, will always be worth it.

How long has the Sun got left? The actual Sun, not the rag.

I wouldn’t disagree with any of that in a general sense. I mean I used to occasionally look at The Sky At Night with Patrick Moore back in the day and I always found Leo Enright on RTE to be an interesting broadcaster.

Perhaps there will again come a time when the amount of funding put into space exploration rises and the pace of discovery picks up again, like art has its golden periods throughout history.

As it is I’m enjoying this discussion but hopelessly out of my depth in it. I suppose we all are, which is why we need @Flano back to talk about black holes and the large hadron collider.

[Batigol]

@Cheasty

How long has the Sun got left? The actual Sun, not the rag.

Billions of years, apparently.

I hope we do get back to throwing our lot into space exploration. It’ll probably take the discovery of some expensive new material to mine or some space-based weapon to make governments actually prioritise it, which is sad

[Cheasty]

@Batigol

Billions of years, apparently.

I hope we do get back to throwing our lot into space exploration. It’ll probably take the discovery of some expensive new material to mine or some space-based weapon to make governments actually prioritise it, which is sad

Probably. I do have a grá for NASA as sound skins as about 30 years ago my brother wrote off to their Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California about something for a school project and in response they very kindly posted a hefty parcel with a load of very nicely presented A4 colour photographs of space and helpful explanations, printed on quality paper card. There must have been at least 100 or so such photographs and they sent them out for free. I thought that was dead sound of them.

[Batigol]

@Aertel220

Mars doesn’t sound great tbh.

There aren’t a whole lot of “handy” places in space to visit. Everywhere beyond the moon is going to be incredibly challenging

[Aertel220]

@Batigol

Billions of years, apparently.

Yeah the sun is about halfway through its life cycle so 5 billion years left roughly.

[EstebanSexface]

They’d want to tax its usage now at this stage

[Cheasty]

@Aertel220

Yeah the sun is about halfway through its life cycle so 5 billion years left roughly.

In GAA terms our universe is at the stage where Let’s Dance by David Bowie is being blared over the PA before the start of the second half.

[Aertel220]

@Batigol

There aren’t a whole lot of “handy” places in space to visit. Everywhere beyond the moon is going to be incredibly challenging

Trappist-1 could have been the one but alas it’s too far away.

Mars would suit gym monkeys who love threadmills. I’d imagine the lads who get up at 4am would do untold over there.

[Batigol]

@Aertel220

so 5 billion years left roughly

But how many exactly?

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

KanekoaTheGreat

[glenshane]

I want one

[PhattPike]

When the baby monitor goes off at 6am after a night on the whiskey and fags etc etc

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Santy will get them want they want but this, this is from me. Stick the kettle on mary

[Alphakrul1]

[Tierneevin1979]

The key isn’t the event itself, it’s controlling the narrative. The majority of people (the overwhelming majority in the past) believe a narrative if it’s pushed by the government and the national media.

One of the best examples is the RFK killing. Literally everyone believes the narrative that Sirhan Sirhan shot RFK in the head and killed him. Yet every witness in the room said Sirhan was several feet in front of Kennedy, and the autopsy is very clear and detailed that Kennedy was shot three times and all shots came from behind him. Not just that, his clothes and skin had carbon burns so the gun was next to his body. It is literally undeniable that he was hit by a security guard standing behind him, who just so happened to be a CIA asset, and admitted he drew and fired his gun.

Basically you can get people to believe anything, even if it conflicts with reality.

[Diabhal]

Aliens is now an offensive term. They prefer the term extra terrestrial itinerants.

[neilld]

A good alien invasion would really bring us all together

[maurice_brown]

Take me to your Boss

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Didnt ronnie reagan say that at the UN or something

[neilld]

I dunno, I was just thinking it there with my small, smooth brain