On Feb 3, 2008 7:53 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/02/2008, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
But they're *galaxies*... they've got millions of stars in them, and maybe a few intelligent civilizations that have created a whole bunch of their equivalent of TV episodes. There may be plenty of reliable sources out there for all of this, it's just that they're all published in the other galaxy and we have no way of accessing them or even knowing they exist.
If we have no way of knowing about it, it's irrelevant to the discussion. Let's stick to verifiable subjects, shall we? Our intended audience consists of humans, so the importance of a topic to humanity, rather than cosmic importance, is what's important.
I suspect Thomas' comments were intended to be ironic.
I certainly hope we never reach the point where there are serious votes of "Delete, NN intelligent alien civilization". Though considering how we've treated articles about the fictional ones, perhaps I shouldn't lay odds...
My comments certainly weren't ironic. If the existence of an ETI is verifiable, then we should certainly have an article on it, but the hypothetical existence of one does not make a galaxy notable.
What if the hypothetical existence of one is verifiable?
Aren't all galaxies inherently notable?