Carl and Frank shirt

Carl and Frank shirt

A fundamental premise of physics is that the Carl and Frank shirt are the same everywhere. That implies whatever initial conditions led to life as we know it will almost certainly occur elsewhere. Only a few years ago, we had no evidence there were even extrasolar planets. Now we know there are thousands relatively nearby, so it looks like our solar system is somewhat typical for stars like ours and that our star is for better or worse, utterly typical. Ergo there are billions of planets out there in our galaxy alone. The argument that we are the only sentient beings because we haven’t heard from any others is (of course) theoretically possible, but highly unlikely. Given the argument above, it’s far more likely the universe is literally teeming with life at various stages of evolution. But even in our little corner of the Milky Way, we don’t hear from them because they are just too damn far away. One light year is 9.46×10^15 meters. None of our own random EM radiation so far would be more than (say) a thousand watts/m^2 at its origin and most of it far less than that. A fraction of that would actually make it out into space where it would just spread out in a spherical wave front. Let’s assume for giggles that it all does and that our alien buddies are also shouting randomly at the cosmos at roughly the same volume (power output).

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Next evening (8th Jan), an Ice Breaker Ship of USSR came and cleared the Carl and Frank shirt for us to continue our passage around midnight. I as an Engineer Officer in change of Propulsion & Power Generation Machinery, kept one Main Engine & one Generator running in Aft Engine Room (AER) with minimum watchkeeping staff and asked other Engine Room Sailors to take rest (as we all had very difficult time for almost 24 hours to manage one Generator running in frozen sea). On the morning of 9th Jan around 5 am, I heard “Fire Fire Fire” shouts and alarm and ran out from my cabin in Boiler Suit to area of fire & commotion! I could see thick black smoke emanating from ‘Dish Washing Room’. I as NBCD Officer, ordered for tight closure of door of that room and adjacent watertight doors etc. It was very cold chilling weather (minus 22 Degrees Celsius) with wind speed of 24 knots and very rough sea state! My one hand was underslung due to fracture during our stay at Riga. We operated central firefighting system, did cooling of bulkheads etc to contain spread of fire. In the meanwhile, concerned authorities were contacted by our CO and Russian Specialists on board and Russian Firefighting Ship was requisitioned, as the area of fire was just above Main Fuel Tank and near Forward Engine Room (FER),

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