Rotating spacecraft that are giant cylinders. That helps with the “gravity”.

It’s a long way off but technically possible with our current tech.

“We’ll also go back and tell Fred Hoyle the truth”

“We’ll go back a few more years and prevent your first book from getting published.”

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Damn hydrocarbons won’t stay in the soap bubbles!

What do you mean thought process or plan? There isn’t a deity.

Of note is that we’re obviously under the right conditions that an ape can look up at the sky and wonder. That’s random but we seemingly won the lottery.

You assume you exist to start with.

If there are infinite universes then, obviously, yes. If there are, say, eleven (to pick a prime number), then probably not.

I’d offer that our Moon had been critical in our evolution and, importantly, biology.

Tides mix up the hydrocarbons.

It hit him in the back of the head while he was still at the home base.

In your experience.

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I’ve seen the gluttony show before. How he’s not died from a heart attack, I don’t know.

I expect he’s diabetic nowadays.

I think the best food (and bars) I’ve seen was in Chicago. SF wasn’t up to much. NYC was “ok”. Boston wasn’t so good though fish and chips in Maine was not bad. I can’t recall food in Seattle.

I lived in the US (Florida). It was very poor quality as a rule. Even the better restaurants were nothing special.

The Publix chain of supermarkets weren’t good. Bread was, well, not worth buying for instance.

Luckily they avoided American cuisine!

Well, anywhere other than low Earth orbit isn’t instant. Even that has latency.

If “magic UDP” existed, I’d still put it in Alpha Centauri. Results of the survey may well drive us to go there by “some magic” technology.

The Alpha Centauri system.

Admittedly, comms (if possible at all) would have somewhat of a latency but the resultant images and other measurements would be of huge interest.

Astronaut will be retrieving it. Along with many other samples that they’ve collected themselves.

I doubt it and I doubt it’ll be his astronauts. But, I’m fairly sure it’ll be his technology that’s used.

I’d be surprised if it’s not NASA astronauts flying SpaceX kit.

Frankly, there’s no other viable option.

That keeps getting repeated but…

Assuming technology increases at the rate it is doing and another Newton or Einstein surfaces, about 300 years or so.

Well, the Earth/Moon system and our gas giant may appear to be unusual, based on what our technology can deduce of other star systems. That might be important for complex life.

I do think the likes of bacteria will be common elsewhere. Essentially, a soap bubble needed to start the whole process.

The possibility of finding technological life other than our own.

I’d expect life itself is common and, although that’d be a Nobel prize, it’s hardly in the same ball park as detecting a civilisation we may be able to converse with.