I would love to know, in how many of those planets do they have a version of Sonar where you can record a soft synth's audio output in real time. 

Planet Reebok.

 
 

sharke
I would love to know, in how many of those planets do they have a version of Sonar where you can record a soft synth's audio output in real time. 

Now you're just being silly.

I heard a presentation recently that pointed out that, when you consider the age of the universe and our planet, the amount of time it took for life to appear and learn to send signals and space craft out into the universe was an incredibly short span of time.
 
If earthlings could learn do it so quickly, then it follows that all the aliens probably could have too. If there actually are any aliens.
 
The idea is that evidence of alien interaction should be as common as a shooting star. Why don't we experience alien interaction as common?
 
The conclusion of the presentation suggested that we may be more special than some give us credit for.
 
I found it to be an interesting twist on the "anything can happen" idea.
 
best regards,
mike

mike_mccue
 Why don't we experience alien interaction as common?
 
 
best regards,
mike

You mean we don't?  Man, that's why I became a forum member. Maybe
I should have gone with Pro-Tools.
 

sharke
I would love to know, in how many of those planets do they have a version of Sonar where you can record a soft synth's audio output in real time. 

On Vulcan, they use Logic, and they can do just that.

mike_mccue
I heard a presentation recently that pointed out that, when you consider the age of the universe and our planet, the amount of time it took for life to appear and learn to send signals and space craft out into the universe was an incredibly short span of time.
 
If earthlings could learn do it so quickly, then it follows that all the aliens probably could have too. If there actually are any aliens.
 
The idea is that evidence of alien interaction should be as common as a shooting star. Why don't we experience alien interaction as common?
 

 
This kind of "lack of evidence, therefore" argument depends entirely on the premise that there's a very high likelihood that we should be seeing a specific type of evidence that we don't find. But those premises are often quite poorly supported, much less vetted. It's a much harder argument to make than one based on evidence that's actually been found.

light years later, this is what it has come down to:

drewfx1

mike_mccue
I heard a presentation recently that pointed out that, when you consider the age of the universe and our planet, the amount of time it took for life to appear and learn to send signals and space craft out into the universe was an incredibly short span of time.
 
If earthlings could learn do it so quickly, then it follows that all the aliens probably could have too. If there actually are any aliens.
 
The idea is that evidence of alien interaction should be as common as a shooting star. Why don't we experience alien interaction as common?
 

 
This kind of "lack of evidence, therefore" argument depends entirely on the premise that there's a very high likelihood that we should be seeing a specific type of evidence that we don't find. But those premises are often quite poorly supported, much less vetted. It's a much harder argument to make than one based on evidence that's actually been found.

 
I thought of the presentation as a form of entertainment.
 
I found the twist on the premise that "anything can happen" entertaining.
 
It seemed better than watching reruns of TMZ.
 
:-)
 
Plus, it never even mentioned pyramids or ancient calendars... so it was obvious the guy had missed a few visits.
 
best,
mike

It seems likely that if there is intelligent extra-terrestrial life, they may be advanced enough to have deduced that we exist. In that case it is quite likely they are maintaining radio silence in the hope that we will never find them. If our penchant for ruthless warfare were not enough to prompt such rational paranoia, the desire to avoid our telemarketing would suffice.