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If I remember correctly Homo Sapiens Sapiens appeared around 75 thousand years ago...

This is a game of course... anything is possible.

Like stopping your engines and you come to a halt... in vacuom!!!

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and how can you prove that they appeared on Earth 75,000 years ago???

Any pictures? or videos? oh wait, they didn't even have fire then.

you just never know.

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Actually it's longer than that. Closer to double that in fact

[URL=http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/sap.htm]click me[/URL]

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karajorma, I was refering to Sapiens Sapiens... If I'm wrong, please correct me... serious!!

But you got the point

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humans will be never find way out from Sol system and and It`s too long way to reach other star systems to reach other star system it would take 10000 years and more.

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karajorma, I was refering to Sapiens Sapiens... If I'm wrong, please correct me... serious!!

But you got the point

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erm, even at sublight speed it wold take about 100-150 years, sinch Alpha Centauri is about 120 light years from Sol.

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erm, even at sublight speed it wold take about 100-150 years, sinch Alpha Centauri is about 120 light years from Sol.

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well, i am not a person of astromony. lol

i can't even spell it right. lol

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While looking around the net for the Homo Sapiens Sapiens thing I found [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/166869.stm]this[/URL] page about the time humankind nearly went extinct. (I had heard the story before) I guess it means that Homo Sapiens Sapiens (if such a species does exist) must have been around more than 75,000 years ago.

There's a more detailed explaination [URL=http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/evolution/]here[/URL]

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erm, but there really isn't any accual proof is there?

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Jamiek, ever heard of fossils? or carbon dating? etc...

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erm, but there really isn't any accual proof is there?

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You mean apart from

fossils
radioisotope dating
genetic diversity evidence

Yeah. If you ignore all that there's no evidence.

If you want to talk about science Jamie I suggest you first try to understand it. I for one am not about to be swayed by the arguements of someone who claims that Alpha Centauri is 120LY away cause he couldn't be bothered to spend ten seconds on a google search. Your knowledge of paleontology is no doubt similarly flawed.

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i am not a astro-wizard. lol

well, accually i think Wolf 359 is closer then Alpha Centauri.......i get most of my knowledge of sci-fi movies. lol

Like i get all my knowledge of Greek Gods from Xena and Hercules and i get the Egyptian Gods from Stargate......not real i know, but they base them on the accual myths..

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i am not a astro-wizard. lol

well, accually i think Wolf 359 is closer then Alpha Centauri.......i get most of my knowledge of sci-fi movies. lol

Like i get all my knowledge of Greek Gods from Xena and Hercules and i get the Egyptian Gods from Stargate......not real i know, but they base them on the accual myths..

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This is why I really hope they find life on either Mars or Europa. It really would end this sort of discussion. Even if we haven't contacted them yet it would seem unlikely that life could evolve independantly twice in one system and never anywhere else.

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Do some real mythological research...StarGate is actually quite good but Xena and Hercules pretty much destroy anything accurate about any of the greek/roman/hindu (what else am I forgetting) gods.

Sci-fi movie writers tend to forgo actual facts for story...they are hoping that people like you don't notice.

I've seen alot of people make posts to the effect of X will never happen. Things like there are definately no aliens absolutely ever its just impossible and faster than light travel is impossible and exporing beyond our solar system is impossible...at this point I'd like to remind everyone who feels so compelled to say these things of some other impossible things.

- heavier than air travel (ie. the airplane)
- crossing the atlantic to the 'new world' (ie. north america)
- breaking the sound barrier in an airplane and not coming apart at the seams
- wireless communication (ie. the radio)
- voice communication (ie. the telephone)
- sending a man into space was deemed impossible
- sending a man to the moon was considered fantasy

I had this wonderful quote of a 17th century duke or someone who proclaimed to everyone that flying through the air was impossible.

So...all of these impossible things, deemed over and over to be simply beyond our grasp have come true and the whole medium you are using to tell everyone that aliens and FTL travel is impossible was once considered impossible itself. Consider the past and then look to the future...

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Well said.

It is only considered impossible because we don't know how to do it.

Imagine how far we have gone in the last 100 years........very far.

We harnessed the Atoms, we created Stealth Fighters and Bombers, Radar is useless, even though 3D Sensors would make the Stealth Technology Useless since it scans in a 3D Dimension instead of a 2D like the radar.

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well, accually i think Wolf 359 is closer then Alpha Centauri.......i get most of my knowledge of sci-fi movies. lol

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well, accually i think Wolf 359 is closer then Alpha Centauri.......i get most of my knowledge of sci-fi movies.

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Wolf 359 is about 11.5 lightyears away, Alpha Centauri is abput 3 light years. I suggest you watch better sci fi movies

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Wolf 359 is about 11.5 lightyears away, Alpha Centauri is abput 3 light years. I suggest you watch better sci fi movies

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Oh come on. If you're going to correct him at least get the facts straight.

Proxima Centauri is 4.2 LY away.

Alpha Centauri A & B are about 4.4 putting the average distance for the Centauri system about 4.3 LY

Barnards Star is next at 5.9 LY away.

Wolf 359 is the third closest at 7.8 LY

To prevent further wrongness everyone should consult [URL=http://www.stellar-database.com/]this site[/URL] just be certain they've got their facts straight next time

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