Starship Asterisk*

Chris Peterson wrote:overpopulation is really the root of all our problems.

Oh really, I bet just 5 centuries ago Europe was a waste hole you wouldn't want to live in, even though there were much less people.

Chris Peterson wrote:Viewed biologically, there's a name for that pattern: cancer.

cough

Are you talking about the plague, mak? Actually, that was one of nature's solutions to our first overpopulation problem. Even though there were a lot less people, the cities were still overpopulated. Had we not come up with ways of being more sanitary and more efficient, the plague would have cleared us down to a more natural density and the transmitting vectors would also subsequently be reduced. I assume at that point that the bubonic plague would have returned to its former and much more tolerable rate.

mark swain wrote:They could be closer than we could imagine....

No planets found yet; it's just a computer model which shows small rocky planets should form in that kind of system.

It sounds like the researchers have an interesting way of detecting these panets, and of course the search is well worth the effort.

Rob

Hi Rob

I been watching a new program on Nat Geo channel. Extreme Universe . They do glits it up but its very interesting.

They talking about a new generation of huge telescopes out in space that they are developing. Telescopes that will be very sensitive and can shut off the stars light as so to measure the light coming from the planets . They said life stinks, and if there is life on those planets around other stars they will find it .

But its a long time off.

They also discussed the Drake Equation and other solutions as to the probable number of civilizations in our galaxy .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

They said it is more than 1 lol. but less than 1 million. Taking into consideration of all the world killing objects in our galaxy. Very interesting stuff.