Saturday, January 15, 2005
Can the Aliens Solve Social Security?
It is believed by some (pdf) that our Sun is a youngster -- a billion years younger than your average sun in the Milky Way:
"We find that ~75% of the stars that harbor complex life in the Galaxy are older than the Sun, and that the average age is ~ 1 Gy older than the Sun."
This raises several questions:
1. Does this mean there are civilizations a billion years more advanced than ours?
2. And, if so, since our top scientists managed to develop our own civilization from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" to "Queer Eye for the Straight Girl" in little more than just ONE year, isn't it a fair extrapolation over a BILLION years to conclude these aliens have recently solved their own Social Security Crisis?
3. So would these aliens be willing to help us solve our Crisis?
4. In other words, would these aliens be willing work on our planet, and pay into our Social Security system to fund human retirements?
5. Isn't waiting for the aliens a more realistic solution to this awful, awful crisis than private accounts?
"We find that ~75% of the stars that harbor complex life in the Galaxy are older than the Sun, and that the average age is ~ 1 Gy older than the Sun."
This raises several questions:
1. Does this mean there are civilizations a billion years more advanced than ours?
2. And, if so, since our top scientists managed to develop our own civilization from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" to "Queer Eye for the Straight Girl" in little more than just ONE year, isn't it a fair extrapolation over a BILLION years to conclude these aliens have recently solved their own Social Security Crisis?
3. So would these aliens be willing to help us solve our Crisis?
4. In other words, would these aliens be willing work on our planet, and pay into our Social Security system to fund human retirements?
5. Isn't waiting for the aliens a more realistic solution to this awful, awful crisis than private accounts?
