Flo Scott

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This is fascinating!

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)? One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century. Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science. Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here. My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess. BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

@_Plot_20 Thank you 🙏

Finally I have my date for brain surgery to remove a #meningioma #braintumour so the countdown to August 30th begins! It will be exactly a year to the day since I made the decision to have the surgery, it’s been quite a journey! #SaveOurNHS

Love this heartwarming thread about saving a herring gull chick. Kate you are a legend!

@DirtyGardenH0E I’m so sorry.

All my tools are gone, my plants trampled, ripped up. This is my livelihood. This is my career. All my hard work. I’m absolutely fucking done with the world today.

@Kate_Bradbury I LOVE this!! ❤️

Twitter do you want a very long but happy herring gull story? Course you do.

Oof this is a hard read. But please read it. 💔theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@redactyl We are in unknown territory now. A bit terrifying!

Today the North Atlantic reached its highest temperature ever recorded (and 5.5 weeks before the previously recorded high). Still climbing. Not only is this unprecedented, but there's no model to predict the effect upon weather and current circulation.

Garden update: Broad beans harvested, Hungarian blue squash growing, purple s broccoli gone in, hollyhocks are out! #GardeningTwitter #gardening #gardens #growyourown #Permaculture

@urbanponds101 The hollyhocks are out! #gardening

Midweek timeline cleanse. Post a lovey picture of a flower

@FrankCArt Love it!

Completed yesterday. A3 acrylic of Teignmouth Seafront. Say whatever you like. All feedback appreciated.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was "disappointed" with Sweden's legal system after she was found guilty of disobeying police during a protest and fined Monday.

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits. A bit concerning, don’t you think?

@savebutterflies Red admiral at Pulborough Brooks in Sussex.

We're on the lookout for recently taken photos of Red Admiral butterflies! 📸 🦋 If you've got one you want to share, could you please reply to this post with your image please... Thanks in advance! #BigButterflyCount

Under construction - a new farming landscape. Climate fixing, soil restoring, carbon banking, water saving, wildlife boosting, planet saving, soul mending. Only nature (and farmers) can save us now #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #NaturePhotography #biodiversity

Why scientists are using the word scary over the #ClimateEmergency "More and more scientists are now admitting publicly that they are scared by the recent #ClimateCrisis extremes" #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown theguardian.com/environment/20…

@TwyfordRising @B_Strawbridge A victory indeed! Well done! I was at Newbury at various camps for weekends, it marked me deeply. I remember being up a tree in the cordoned area, trees felling all around me, and a German newspaper guy saying thank you ‘ we support what you are doing’. It felt big.

@_Plot_20 Also my experience!