You both look the same after all that time.

What about solar winds? And a sail to catch them? Feels like I've heard about this someplace.

The Nostromo in the original Alien movie had Rolls Royce engines. Not sure if they were nuclear.

Good stuff. Thanks for the info!

I would check out the Trappist system up close. Just to get a look at another star system with multiple planets

This is the correct answer.

Just for fun, you can shine up dull coins and metal with vinegar and salt. For the same reasons.

Right... Gaming.

His apology wasn't sincere. We all know what he thinks about women and his party will back him on it.

Came here to make this point.

A special operation to take down probation violators and make regular arrests. Way to go.

Hope they don't pull a muscle patting themselves on the back.

Drake's equation makes it seem likely that life should be abundant in the universe.

The number of observable galaxies times the average number of stars in each galaxy times the number of planets/satellites in what we call the habitable zone of each system equals an astronomical number that I couldn't possibly fathom, even if we kept the numbers that were used very very conservative. If even 1 in 1,000 of those planets harbor life of some sort there would still be millions with life. If only 1 in 1,000 of those had 'advanced' life, there world still be a shit load of them.

The Fermi paradox simply asks the question "where are they?"

One of the widely accepted answers is, "there are none" while another, my favorite, is that there are many many other life forms out there, but there is also one that attacks, kills/harvests other life for food or some type of personal gain and most of the other societies out there know about them and keep their heads down and their mouths shut... But not us. We are here screaming and waving trying to get anyone to notice us while all the others watch and wait for the horror of this planet being ravaged and killed by the murderers.

Another widely accepted answer has to do with The Great Filter, which is some event or obstacle that the life form must overcome to proceed but usually fails, resulting in extinction of said life form.

Or, again, Mayne they see us for the shit-show we are and have no time for our nonsense.

Based on very conservative numbers, the Fermi paradox should point to hundreds, if not thousands of life forms relatively close to us. My take on why we don't see them is sheer distance between us and them. Just a few LY of distance makes markers instigating possible life very difficult to detect. Now factor in the 105k or so LY diameter of our own galaxy. A sufficiently advanced race that could possibly travel at near light speed could still take tens of thousands of years to find and visit us, provided they didn't see us as the dangerous parasites that we really are.

Could be that we are seen by other advanced races as barely primordial scum and they don't want to get any of that on their cool space shoes.

What I'm seeing in your response is that you don't know the difference any further than you've heard it from your favorite politician.

It sounds like a socialist society would be an upgrade from the present capitalism where a certain few own everything.

What am I missing that makes a society more inclined towards socialism instead of capitalism such a bad thing?

While your post has some interesting information, it says nothing about the differences between socialism and communism.

Just curious... What are the differences between communism and socialism?

Why do so many people think they are basically the same?

Your golden rule hits so much closer to the truth. Upvote dispensed.

I heard the golden rule is...

"Caulk and paint will make you a saint"

It could be a T-5 lamp. The lamps are measured in 1/8" increments. A T-8 lamp has a diameter of 1". A T-12 has a 1½" diameter, so the T-5 is 5/8".

But definitely get an LED replacement.