Extraterrestrial Life and UFO sightings; constructively critical deliberation.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Now cut that out! 

[Charger]

You guys crack me up!

[Zzzptm]

Meanwhile, the debate over the proper value for Hubble's Constant is starting to heat up, with three different values to deal with.

[Typhon]

Mercury Transits The Sun Today

On the morning of Monday, November 11, 2019, the planet Mercury will transit the Sun for the first time since 2016. The transit of a planet across the face of the Sun is a relatively rare occurrence since, as seen from Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible—those being the only two planets within the inner solar system and closer to the sun than our own. There are only about 13 transits of Mercury each century, and while it’s only been three years since the last transit, the next one isn’t for another 20!

Why is there such an irregularity and scarcity to being able to see these transits? The answer has two parts. First is that Mercury’s orbit is very fast—just 88 (Earth) days compared to our 365. As it whips around the sun, we lumber along, which makes it hard to align our orbits. Second is a larger part in the answer, and that is because the planets in our solar system don’t follow the same orbital plane, meaning the solar system isn’t flat like a plate, as many illustrations suggest. Relative to our orbital plane, Mercury’s is pitched at an angle. When you combine these two factors, you have a fast-moving planet that comes in at an oblique angle to ours, so it’s very rare that our position lines up with the sun both in our orbits and in our orbital planes.

[Charger]

I was gonna take my telescope out to watch that BUT the cloud coverage was 100% here so no luck.

[Typhon]

Check this out, a new robot being worked on that will some day replace soldiers and police. 

[Zzzptm]

Check this out, a new robot being worked on that will some day replace soldiers and police. 

Since I do security, my thoughts immediately go to asking questions about what would cause this robot soldier to wind up in a friendly fire situation. Both code errors and external compromise of communications come to mind, but what about these would be different from current soldiering?

[Charger]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

[Typhon]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

[Charger]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

They'd still be TERRESTRIAL though...

[Typhon]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

They'd still be TERRESTRIAL though...

So are UFOs.   

[Charger]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

They'd still be TERRESTRIAL though...

So are UFOs.   

Some are most certainly...some might not be. We simply do not know....and that is the fact of it.

[Typhon]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

They'd still be TERRESTRIAL though...

So are UFOs.   

Some are most certainly...some might not be. We simply do not know....and that is the fact of it.

  When you find one that isn't, you let me know.

[Charger]

Robots will one day replace soldiers and police officers too I have no doubt about that. Atleast in the most dangerous areas. The problem with them ofcourse is that what if they would turn on their masters? When AI becomes fully sentient it might decide one day that man is the root of all evil and just eradicate us all. Especially if any kind of environmentalist codes are written into it.

Fascinating stuff this all in all but has NOTHING to do with this topic though...

You just described a possibility of robots turning on their masters, so how far is that from other forms of life?

They'd still be TERRESTRIAL though...

So are UFOs.   

Some are most certainly...some might not be. We simply do not know....and that is the fact of it.

  When you find one that isn't, you let me know.

That's a deal..

This is actually a pretty good candiate for one....so says the US military too.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
It's China!