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Deity
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You mean like the Voth from the Voyager episode Distant Origin?
If so, despite its improbability it is a theory that I most enjoy.
Theories about aliens
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If so, despite its improbability it is a theory that I most enjoy.
Berzerker
Deity
Myths describe a water covered world and the subsequent formation of land and life accompanying or following "creation". The science agrees...
The evidence for "God" can be found in ancient cosmology...
The evidence for "God" can be found in ancient cosmology...
Blue Emu
GroFAZ
The universe is a very big place, and I certainly believe that there is alien life out there somewhere... probably in lots of places.
Whether any of them ever stopped by our own neighbourhood is a different question entirely. I doubt it. If they did, the odds are that it happened during the Precambrian, since that Era makes up about seven-eights of Earth's history. So there wouldn't have been anyone around to greet them except bacteria and maybe a few worm-like creatures. Not much of a welcoming committee.
And UFO's?... I have my own hypothesis about them.
My UFO hypothesis is no more crazy (and also no less crazy, be warned!) than the usual flying-saucer-with-little-green-men interpretation. It explains most of the common attributes of UFOs, including the shape, color, erratic behavior (hovering, then zooming away), electrical/magnetic effects, invisibiity to radar...
Does anyone want to hear it, or is this the wrong thread for that?
Whether any of them ever stopped by our own neighbourhood is a different question entirely. I doubt it. If they did, the odds are that it happened during the Precambrian, since that Era makes up about seven-eights of Earth's history. So there wouldn't have been anyone around to greet them except bacteria and maybe a few worm-like creatures. Not much of a welcoming committee.
And UFO's?... I have my own hypothesis about them.
My UFO hypothesis is no more crazy (and also no less crazy, be warned!) than the usual flying-saucer-with-little-green-men interpretation. It explains most of the common attributes of UFOs, including the shape, color, erratic behavior (hovering, then zooming away), electrical/magnetic effects, invisibiity to radar...
Does anyone want to hear it, or is this the wrong thread for that?
Disgustipated
Deity
I'm of the belief that faster than light travel (in an object made by an intelligent being) is impossible. So to answer the question, no, we have not been visited by intelligent beings.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Benefactor
Beneficial
I think he is saying that the people who attribute Pyramids to aliens are being arrogant, not you
.As for Aliens visiting Earth, almost certainly no, and if they did I would assume them to be the Alien equivalent of Transhumans. We probably wouldn't even know they where here.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Oh I misread that. Sorry.
Gurubashi
Chieftain
Mother Mary once said in a visitation (not to me) that aliens don't exist, and I believe her and picked "no"
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Mother Mary?
Why can't we not be sober?
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
AHh that Mary! I was confused.. Visitation = vision?
katipunero
Prince
nope, they haven't yet.
also, there's a great likelihood that we're the most advanced planetary civilization in this part of the galaxy. yet the best that we have done so far is to shoot objects out the solar system at a hundredth fraction of the speed of light. in other words, contact is improbable, which might be a good thing according to Hawking.
also, there's a great likelihood that we're the most advanced planetary civilization in this part of the galaxy. yet the best that we have done so far is to shoot objects out the solar system at a hundredth fraction of the speed of light. in other words, contact is improbable, which might be a good thing according to Hawking.
warpus
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It probably is a good thing that we haven't contacted anyone yet. If we do, chances are that they're going to be millions of years more advanced than us... and that's just crazy, cause look at what 2,000 years more advanced means = spears vs tanks. And say we run into very peaceful aliens, they're still going to look at our planet, all of our resources, and see it as a viable colony. When two civilizations meet, and one is far more advanced.. good things have never been known to happen to the less advanced civ.
katipunero
Prince
^ that has been the mainstream sentiment of most cosmologists. Carl warned us of the possible danger of transmitting radio pulses randomly in space in the hope of letting "others" know we're here and where we are in the universe. Stephen was more blunt in his assessment and said that it is not a good idea to give potential colonizers our precise coordinates.
deep down i still hope for contact while i'm alive. i imagine contact like how it happened in that Jodie Foster movie.
deep down i still hope for contact while i'm alive. i imagine contact like how it happened in that Jodie Foster movie.
Like I said upthread, Pascal's Wager.
Gurubashi
Chieftain
I don't know what to term it exactly, it's one of the Bayside prophecies where she spoke through inner voice to a prophetess. She told her that humans and angels are the only sentient beings God has created, and UFOs are vehicles from hell. I believe her
Winner
Diverse in Unity
And I still believe that any civilization advanced enough to actually master interstellar travel HAS NO BLOODY NEED to conquer/colonize Earth. If anything, this is just a projection of human psychology - we're scared ***less that someone will do to us what we've done to each other for the past 200,000 years, without actually considering whether something like that would even be economical for the would-be colonizers.
warpus
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It is very dangerous. Imagine if a bunch of ants somehow contacted us from a yet undiscovered continent here on Earth. I know it's a bit silly, but even if the ants were capable of some rational thought, .. it's just ants. we wouldn't care. Even if we were peaceful, we'd just go and colonize the continent. If any advanced alien intellect picks up any of our transmission, they'll likely see us as that - ants. Insignificant.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Why would we do that, if there was no profit in it?
For a civilization capable of interstellar travel, it will be many times easier to just find a suitable lifeless planet and terraform and colonize it instead of organizing a costly expedition to a far away planet whose ecology is most likely totally incompatible with theirs and whose inhabitants might resist being colonized.
So, if some sort of Antartican ice-ants living kilometres deep under the ice sheet contacted us, would we send drilling teams to get to them and wipe them out, just so that we can occupy their... um, ice caves? Really?
EDIT: Even better - suppose we are contacted by a methane-based lifeforms from Titan. Will we spend trillions of dollars to build a space fleet to get to them and nuke them, just to have Titan for ourselves? Of course we won't. We might send explorers to contact them and see what we can learn from them. We'd study them, because they'd be worth much more alive and well than dead.
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