Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Science Time" channel.

I read The Elegant Universe 20 some odd years ago when I got bored reading history and philosophy related content. I found it cool for a bit but then it sort of faded from my interest. The whole multi-dimension aspect was fascinating but I was left wondering how valid all of it was if you had to create something that can never been proven to make your theory work. Honestly, I don't know enough about it. That's why I decided to give this video a peek. Am I more enlightened? Not really, but it would be cool to find out I'm rich and famous in one of the other dimensions.
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Repulsive gravity...🤔That term describes some of the women I dated fairly well. But, people always said I had animal magnetism because I attracted animals so there ya go, one force equalizing the other out. Harmony and equilibrium restored in the universe. I still like Johnny Carson's take on it as Carnac the Magnificent when he put the envelope to his head and said: "The Big Cigarette. What followed the Big Bang." Love that one. 🤣🤣
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I grew up during the space race, a child of Apollo if you will. I've been waiting for ET to phone for decades. But the older I get, the more I learn, the more I have come to realize that the conditions necessary for life, let alone intelligent life, have to be so precise that it blows the mind. Then there are the limitations put on any space traveler by physics. We either have it all wrong or some group has figured out how to manipulate not only gravity, but matter and time itself. That is a pretty tall order. Are there other civilizations out there? I dunno. And neither does anyone else. No calculation or computer model will ever change that. I think if they are out there, we'll never hear from them and vice-versa because that's the way it is set up. Who knows, maybe when we pass beyond this life we'll get to meet our extraterrestrial cousins. Until that time, live long and prosper. 🖖
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What could cause a nuclear war to kick off? Sheer stupidity. We live in the Age of Stupid so the likelihood is probably higher now than it was at the height of the Cold War. Look at the quality of "leaders" the global community is burping up these days, in every part of the world. If you think about it too hard you'll scare the crap out of yourself. But that's why we have the NFL to distract us isn't it? Live long and prosper kids, but hang on because the 2030's are gonna be one crazy batsh*t roller coaster ride. Just sayin.
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Naming one of those missiles Satan, yeah, that's a proper fit. So much for the end of the Cold War leading to disarmament. I know he was an early contributor to this mess but Ike put it best when they laid out the Op-Plan for all out nuclear war: "Is all this necessary? How many times do we have to kill a guy?"
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Or maybe we're not as insignificant as this guy makes us out to be. Maybe there's more to it than can be explained by simplistic rationalizing based on our development. Maybe we're not just clever pleasure seeking monkeys who figured out how to use our thumbs? Maybe there is a larger purpose to it all that can't be explained by scanning the sky looking for bio signatures. Just something to consider.
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I think Billy Bob Thornton put best: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky."
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Sorry, but the idea of finding microbial life on Mars or Europa or Titan or wherever someone decides to send a probe just doesn't move the needle for me. I'm sure people who make their living on these Johnny Quest's get excited but spending billions to discover some clump of cells in the frozen region of some distant rock sounds like a helluva waste of time and money. Oh, but it will prove life exists in the universe!!! I can look out my window for proof of that. And this nonsense about building ships that will take hundreds of thousands of years to get to some distant planet in the hope of finding a new home, that is possibly the most narcissistic self-centered idea of all the bad ideas ever put forward. You would be willing to doom generation after generation, longer than we have been building civilizations to an existence of servicing some ship they can never leave and eating and living off what? Warmed over piss from their great grandparents? Eating recycled fecal matter and genetically malformed plant-life? Over time they would forget why the hell they are going to wherever it is they are going and would just give up and die off. The problem with futurists is they are dreamers who discount human nature entirely or act like it just doesn't matter since there is no God or no purpose to anything anyway. So let's say you decide not to doom your children to some lonely existence hurtling thorough space. Let's say we send some microchip hurling through space at ludicrous speed. Supposing it is able to make it to its destination, I imagine there wouldn't be a whole lot of people left who wouldn't even remember let alone give a sh*t. "Hey, we got a phone call from the USS Bill Gates." "What the f*ck is a USS Bill Gates?" And please, spare me this BS about these tidally locked planets around red dwarves being good candidates for intelligent life. The only reason these astro-grifters spend so much time obsessing about them is they are the most common star around and they can point to them and say; "see, they have planets in the habitable zone. Give us some more money to study them please because it's really important that we do" Why? "It just is you silly man. How else can I write my ground-breaking peer-reviewed paper Space.com will put out as the next great thing? Just shut-up and trust the science you knuckle-dragging luddite." If I sound like a total cynic...well, maybe I am. I grew up during the age of Apollo and Star Trek. I bought all the BS NASA and the rest of the scientific community fed me. I believed in going to Mars, that we would be talking with ET by now, and that going to the Moon would be a common and every-day event akin to flying to Pittsburgh for the weekend. Now? Okay, I liked the stuff Hubble found, I even find the stuff Keppler and JWST have spotted interesting. But spending a bunch of cash on some propulsion system to get us to these far off worlds? To boldly go where no man has gone before? I don't know if anyone else has noticed but our country, the U.S., is in a simple term, f*cked right now. Trillions, with a T, in debt, crazies crossing our open border, talk of "national divorce" in the halls of congress. If Europe or even China wants to spend a bunch of time, energy, and resources on these futuristic boondoggles, have at it. But they won't because they are in a worse place than us. Sorry dude, no bucks, no Buck Rogers. There is just too much stuff that has to get fixed right here on our home rock. There is a sh*tstorm heading our way in the 2030s. The sooner we get out in front of that the less impact it will have, but it's going to be bad, worse than anything that has come before it. There, my contribution to the future. I wish it wasn't so, but I just don't see how it can be avoided. Not that anyone will ever read this post but live long and prosper all the same gang. 🤟
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I prefer Billy Bob Thornton's take on it: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky." Succinct and elegant. Kinda says it all.
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"Researchers from the University of Nottingham suggest that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to 36 communicating intelligent alien civilizations." They say it's based on an "assumption." You know what, I'm not an astrophysicist, I don't even play one on TV, but I am familiar with the premise of the Scientific Method, and the main part of it is to test the hypothesis. Then, you have to be able to replicate your findings to move from theory to fact. So what's with the specificity? Sorry, but "suggesting" something and basing a specific number on "assumptions" is junk science. That's the kind way of putting it. Bullsh*t is the more appropriate term. And this nonsense gets published. And people wonder why we have trouble figuring out which bathrooms to use. Am I saying no intelligent life exists? Of course not. But crap like that cheapens the search and turns it into nothing more than science fiction. I say there's 37. Prove me wrong.
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So the man makes the point about red dwarf stars being poor candidates for life. Makes sense. And since roughly 75% of the stars in our galaxy are red dwarves the odds of intelligent life in the Milky Way shrink considerably. When you couple that with the delicate balance our solar system has managed to maintain, and the variables that go into life on our planet, well, slim may not have left town but he's close. Forgive me if I don't do the happy happy joy joy dance if some microbe is discovered on some moon. If I can't talk with it I'm really not that pumped up. Okay, you prove life can exist if water is present. I can look out my window and see that. And this stuff about transferring our consciousness to some machine or maybe even a light beam, well I know the transhumanists get all gushy about a post-human era but the argument itself is fraught with so many contradictions it's really too ridiculous to even talk about it. For starters, transhumanists are atheists by default. You can't want to play God unless you believe someone doesn't already have the job. And if you don't believe in God you can't believe we have souls that can survive death. Yet, that is exactly what they are claiming they will one day be able to pull off. They substitute the word soul for consciousness, treat it like it is nothing more than a collection of digital data, and believe that somehow, someway, they can transfer it to something, and then go along and enjoy the ride, an eternity in some heaven they have built for themselves. These are people who don't believe in souls, heaven, or hell mind you. What they have are egos the size of Dyson Sphere. I think the law averages alone weighs in favor of intelligent life existing somewhere in the universe. To say otherwise is to be just as arrogant as the crazy transhumanists who think living life as a soulless cyborg or riding on a moonbeam is a desirable outcome worth striving for. Perhaps, if we stick around long enough, we'll figure out how a few people will be able to outrun the red giant our sun will become one day, maybe setting up shop on Titan for all I know, but we will never leave our little cosmic corner of the universe and our alien kin will never reach us, so the question; "Is E.T. out there?" will never be answered with any certainty. That's my take on it. And I believe that is part of the plan as well, but that's me. Here's something, how about we figure out how to get along with each other before we worry about having a family get together with our cosmic cousins. Live long and prosper you crazy star voyagers. 🤟
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Nobody can say for certain what came before the Big Bang, but I've got a good idea of what came immediately after it...The Big Cigarette. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Credit Carnac the Magnificent for that one, my favorite of all-time.
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Maybe we can't meet our cosmic cousins for a reason. Maybe the separation is intentional. Or maybe it just us. I dunno, and anyone who says they do is either engaging in speculation or just a flat-out lie. I think the odds it is just us in a universe as vast as ours are awfully slim but until I have a conversation with ET color me skeptical and call me Irish. Just don't expect me to get all gushy if some probe finds some microbe floating around in some primordial puddle on some Jovian moon. And don't expect me to call it cuz.
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