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31-12-2020, 22:18
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cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Boat: 1980 (Canning) Mariner36
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Are we alone?
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31-12-2020, 23:00
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: home town Wellington, NZ and Savusavu Fiji
Boat: Reinke S10 & Raven 26
Posts: 1,423
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Re: Are we alone?
Take me to your leader!
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The cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Yeah right, I wish.
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01-01-2021, 01:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Somewhere in French Polynesia
Boat: Dean 440 13.4m catamaran
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Re: Are we alone?
can't help but wonder if you are in the right forum. this is sailing related : how ?
cheers,
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01-01-2021, 06:33
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Re: Are we alone?
Yeah, but even "off-topic" subjects are meant to relate to sailing or cruising - like Thomm225's thread last month about staying in shape while cruising - off-topic, but periperally related.
Fair winds wherever they may take you in 2021, 
LittleWing77
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01-01-2021, 06:36
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cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Boat: 1980 (Canning) Mariner36
Posts: 834
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Re: Are we alone?
Well someone delete it then.
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01-01-2021, 07:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: On a sphere in a planetary system
Boat: 1977 Bristol 29.9 Hull #17
Posts: 730
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Re: Are we alone?
In the end we are all alone...
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01-01-2021, 07:29
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,073
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Re: Are we alone?
He's likely worried already busy anchorages will become even harder to find room in..
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01-01-2021, 07:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,561
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Re: Are we alone?
Oh common on, it's clearly relevant. Interactions with "aliens" is a key aspect of the cruising life  .
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01-01-2021, 08:04
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Carrabelle, Florida
Boat: Fiberglas shattering 44' steel trawler
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Re: Are we alone?
Parsimony rules! It requires far fewer assumptions to hypothesize that they heard anthropogenic electromagnetic radiation than it does to hypothesize that the is alien culture out there that generates electromagnetic radiation at the precise moment needed for them to receive it. Therefore, their making a mistake is the working scientific hypothesis. We are still alone.
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01-01-2021, 08:16
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 18,692
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Re: Are we alone?
Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisr
can't help but wonder if you are in the right forum. this is sailing related : how ?
cheers,
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Travelling by using solar winds 
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01-01-2021, 09:06
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Rügen, Germany & Bacoor City Cavite, Philippines
Boat: Last boat: 2008 Dix 43 CC, steel, 43 ft
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Re: Are we alone?
I think it is a relevant question. If there's no cruisable ocean on those other planets, it is not worth going. 
Happy New Year to you all!
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01-01-2021, 09:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Boat: Teak Yawl, 37'
Posts: 3,003
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Re: Are we alone?
We should have been smarter and been adhering to the Dark Forest theory!!
Now all is lost.
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01-01-2021, 09:20
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Lake Ont
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Re: Are we alone?
Quote:
Originally Posted by er9
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Statistically speaking, there's no way we're "alone". Let's hope that the distances keep us apart for as long as possible.
Look up some recent "first-contact" fiction like "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu. Such books make the point that any civilization advanced enough to contact or visit us would do so because of our real-estate or because we'd make amusing pets (or snacks). H G Wells and John Wyndham had it right: you do not want to be found and visited by aliens. (yeah - the Dark Forest idea. That was Cixin Liu's followup novel)
...and I expect we don't have a lot to offer aliens as a society, besides some interesting recipes and useless collectibles.
MEGA! (Make Earth Great Again)
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01-01-2021, 09:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Noank, Ct. USA
Boat: Cape Dory 31
Posts: 3,254
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Re: Are we alone?
Covid has made us all surreptitious practitioners, if not proponents of, dark forest theory.
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01-01-2021, 10:08
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,909
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Re: Are we alone?
I hope we are alone. New people showing from a far away land worked out so well for the Native Americans! 
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