[workinman]

Originally Posted by horselover

Can the damage be reversed? I'm not sure that it can, but sometimes, it can. This is what I remember reading in different places.
It's kind of like smoking. You damage your lungs, however, when you quit, the damage is repaired, but not all of it can be.
Are we facing a situation similar to that? Will we find that only some of the damage can be repaired?

Maybe we'll never know.

i'm afraid that we will know soon enough... within the next 10 years for sure!

[Simon47]

No and for that matter; spoken language is something you only get to hear in the distant colonies of lesser evolved beings such as that quaint wilderness you live on in the system 2497mu; the inhabitants call it Earth?; as if that name was original and I might add that earth is likely to be all that is left of the place after the human infestation dies off. I don't understand why they don't just send in the exterminator asteroid again like they did for those giant lizard things but you know the almighty prime directive. noninterference;self determination;human rights for a species that barely comprehends it's own existance??? ooo; such potential and all that non sense. what madness befalls the Galactic Federation to presume rights and protect a species that is not even aware of it's protectorate and all for scientific and social interests. What about commerce and what about the Galactic Resource Consortium's right to exploit it's holdings. Eh! It's a hungry galaxy out here and the native "earthers" need us to look out for their interests by developing those resources properly. (GRC President to Galactic Science Minister-2ndArm Division)

Sim

Originally Posted by workinman

what?! u mean that the rest of the universe DOESN'T speak english?!?!

[workinman]

imagine if 'aliens' were out there and intercepting our radio and TV transmissions!!! they'd blow this planet back to space dust in a heart beat!

[Simon47]

I personally do not question their existance although i cannot say i have spoken with any directly... unless they wiped my memory but that's another forum of discussion but.....gotta ask; would we matter until we could actually get far enough away from our planet to be a nuisance. If the infestation spreads.. well; a well is a gravity anomaly surrounding a black hole but that's not important right now; suffice to say...the way space debris is piling up around the planet it won't apparently be long before we are a threat only to ourselves and grounded by our own short sightedness or anthropocentric myopia if you want to give the affliction a name.

perhaps our transmission make them certain we are no threat but it depends how far out they go and the message they get and all presupposing they can make any sense of it out of context. given that the next star system is over 4 light years away our messages aren't reaching them anyway; I'm not worried.

List in Space: Calling the Cosmos Gets Commercial

By Ker Than
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 23 March 2005
06:46 am ET
Aliens will be glad to know that if ever they need to find an apartment here on Earth, someone has got them covered.

On March 11th at 6:30pm, a company called Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a website into space.

The message? Over one hundred thousand separate postings from craigslist.com, the popular community website that includes classified listings for jobs, housing and other goods. The transmission included a date and time stamp, as well as an audio track identifying the message as originating from Earth.

“It's very fitting that the first [commercial] transmission into space is by a community website like craiglist because it represents a wide cross section of society,” said Jim Lewis, vice president of Deep Space Communications Network.


SPACE.com -- List in Space: Calling the Cosmos Gets Commercial

Originally Posted by workinman

imagine if 'aliens' were out there and intercepting our radio and TV transmissions!!! they'd blow this planet back to space dust in a heart beat!

[workinman]

The message? Over one hundred thousand separate postings from craigslist.com,

... heaven help us!

me and my fiance just got back from my dad's house. it was really clear out so i dug my old telescope out of his attic... its always humbling looking out into the vastness of the universe. its amazing that everything that has ever happened in the history of mankind happened on this little speck we call earth... imagine what might be happening elsewhere. we have so much potential to do good but yet so many faults that keep us from acheiving that potential...

[Tag]

Dont even need a telescope to see the vastness of the universe. Just looking up into the starry skies & countless stars & imagine what might be going on millions of light years away.

[Mick]

In a gelogical time scale the earth will fix ti self its just the nature of the beast! but man kind will probably be exstint when this happens

[RideSearch]

Can we fix things? I have hope. I think that if we caused all of this in a span of 200 years, it may take 200 years to fix it. I am thinking a large dome over the earth and a global air conditioner.