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"could", "maybe", "might" - so much waffling, so little fact.
- We have some low-quality data about the frequency of earth-type planets around stars close to ours.
- We cannot estimate the likelihood of the development of life (of our type or any other), so we cannot calculate the number of likely life-bearing planets.
- We cannot estimate the likelihood of the development of intelligent life.
- We cannot estimate the likelihood of the development of technology detectible across light-years by said intelligent life.
- We cannot estimate the likelihood of the destruction of said technological civilizations.
IOW, we have no way whatsoever to resolve Fermi's Paradox.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Of course we have no science re/ alien life. Re/ the so called "Fermi Paradox" in my humble opinion it is solved i.e. to wit in particular to be specific namely e.g. Barney and Betty Hill and many others. However that is another matter. The point I obtained from the article was the vague possibility life could evolve around a black hole. I find that amazing. Life here has been found in harsh environments hence the term "extremophiles". It is even now speculated micro-organisms might evolve in the clouds of Venus. The Black Hole / Life article is of course speculation but still intriguing and amazing to me. - Best
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I once read a book about a wandering mini neutron star that approached earth and they discovered life on it. A dropped article would disappear and reappear as it impacted the surface, the indigenes live 1000s of time faster than humans. In a matter of months they went from primitives to FTL tech. Fascinating book but I can't find the name of it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Yep That is the one - bloody hell 40+ years ago  I hate getting old!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Greetings Kind Regards 40+ years ago a co-worker left me a box full of science fiction books for safe keeping while he left town for a week or two. I do not recall why this make sense but that is another matter. The books were published from the 40s and 50s. I read all approximately 12 of them. Each more pleasurable than the last. I was sorry to have finished the last and wanted more. I wish I had recorded the titles and authors. Science fiction since those days seems to have changed which I now realize is natural and to be expected. I thought I did not like the more modern form though I may have been influenced in this regard by a brief failed attempt to read Ursula Le Guin until I read "Forever War" by John Haldeman at least 6x and all 3,000 pages of "Chung Kuo" by David Wingrove which I could not put down. But to be fair I failed at my first attempt at David Wingrove. My fantasy is a streaming TV series will result from each w/ each word presented but as I learned here there are many other such tomes highly esteemed by others so I can not harp on my own exclusively. I don't mind getting old. I do not dwell on it. - Best - Cheerios
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To add to what Daniel says, I'd class that as "a sh*t-ton of clickbait". 
Which makes your post pretty damn close to spam ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I can only conclude one man's science speculation is another man's spam. Two foul words in one post makes your post pretty "darn" close to insulting which violates house rules
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Speculation IS spam.
All it does it breed hope, and hope doesn't get you anywhere.
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The paper referred to in the article was a speculation of the possibility of life existing in the vicinity of a black hole. The author then investigates if such is possible or not and in either case why or why not. In so doing one learns some science. All the result of wild speculation. Further if one opens wikipedia to "wormhole" the very first sentence reads "A wormhole is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations." Further still we now have a laboratory real working model of a so called "magnetic wormhole". I do not know but am willing to assume the original idea proposed by Dr. Allan Greenleaf et al. was inspired by said previous speculation. Good thing we have such scientific spam.
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I visited the Skill of Asking Questions page. I of course assumed I would read something scholarly. My mouth fell open.
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To aliens, we're the aliens.
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#Worldle #220 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Today's Worldle is very easy.
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You were lucky! 
Wordle 436 3/6
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have visited this country about 10 years ago, and had done some research before that - maps, distances, trains, etc.
Note: This is Worldle, not Wordle. Wordle today is in a different thread.
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Ignore me, I didn't notice the "l" ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Now I'm playing the right game ...
#Worldle #220 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
I went there many, many years ago.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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When I bumped into Captain Hook!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I think I saw his crew was at a rummage sale.
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 Give the man a hand.
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Was he buying or selling?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Now for something completely different:
Middle aged Bruce Springfield: "I wish I had Jessie's grill."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If you've been using Visual Studio 2022 (Preview at the very least, but it's probably in the GA release also), you've probably seen this dialog for adding command-line options and other options for debugging:
(It's at https://honestillusion.com/images/badVSDialog.png if the image doesn't show here. )
The dialog is a mess. It's modal when it needn't be. It can only be closed by clicking the [x] in the corner (Which is treated as an "Apply" not "Cancel" which is a direct violation of Microsoft's own design standards).
I opened a bug report on it at Microsoft's feedback hub last December, where it's languished.
Could some of you check out the bug report here (Visual Studio Feedback ) and voted for and/or comment on it?
Truth,
James
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Good luck with it! The last one I filed they decided was behavior by design. The commenters here and I disagree.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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