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Here is an article about what would happen to the earth if all the people were to disappear.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100

It mentions one thing: no matter what happens to the earth if people go away the RF transmissions we make will continue to spread out into the galaxy and they make the point that those signals could still be picked up by some civilization in our galaxy but after 100,000 years or so, even those signals would be beyond the bounds of our galaxy and start spreading into intergalactic space. It would be a million years or more at that rate before the next closest galaxy could even have a chance to pick up those signals so for all intents and purposes we would have totally disappeared and the earth would say good riddance.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Here is an article about what would happen to the earth if all the people were to disappear.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100

It mentions one thing: no matter what happens to the earth if people go away the RF transmissions we make will continue to spread out into the galaxy and they make the point that those signals could still b ...[text shortened]... ll intents and purposes we would have totally disappeared and the earth would say good riddance.
Would'nt it be funny if they did pick up our transmissions but did'nt even care? It reminds me of a cartoon I saw once. In one picture it shows NASA turning off a deep space probe because of lack of funds. Then in the next picture you saw the probe in deep space being discovered by aliens with the same problem. They did not have the funds to go retreive the probe. LOL.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
...the earth would say good riddance.
Are you a member of a voluntary extinction society?

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Originally posted by whodey
...Would'nt it be funny if they did pick up our transmissions but did'nt even care?...
Do you believe in aliens?

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Do you believe in aliens?
I believe in a spiritual world. Does this count?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Here is an article about what would happen to the earth if all the people were to disappear.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100

It mentions one thing: no matter what happens to the earth if people go away the RF transmissions we make will continue to spread out into the galaxy and they make the point that those signals could still b ...[text shortened]... ll intents and purposes we would have totally disappeared and the earth would say good riddance.
Who would take care of the garden ?

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...so aliens supposedly have similar technology and are capable of receiving these signals?

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Originally posted by StrappingYoungLad
...so aliens supposedly have similar technology and are capable of receiving these signals?
Theoretical aliens with theoretical technology theoritically easy enough to reproduce because, after all, dumb humans figured it out....

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Are you a member of a voluntary extinction society?
Just saying how the earth would feel if it could feel. The fact that humans are screwing it up so badly it may take a million years for earth to get over it says something doesn't it? Something like, humans don't deserve the jewel we were born on.

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Is it possible to have been an alien in a past life? It would help explain these stange urges of mine to go build a space craft of some kind and go abduct aliens.

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Originally posted by whodey
Is it possible to have been an alien in a past life? It would help explain these stange urges of mine to go build a space craft of some kind and go abduct aliens.
Hey, go for it! I have a theory. We build enough spacecraft to start over on Mars or Venus after we screw those planets up enough to support our kind of so-called life and go there and let the earth recover for about a million years. No humans allowed on the planet, make it into a spherical preserve. Let Dolphins evolve into something better than us.
In light of how much we are truly screwing up the planet, the religious set thinking we are the pinnacle of creation is just a tiny bit ludicrous.

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