While We Wait: Part 4

[Luckymoose]

Actually, you do. Hey, maybe they might discover magical interstellar unicorns that love rocking out to Ride of the Valkyries and oppressing primate-analogs while at our level of advancement! That's possible too!

It is possible, just as possible as there being a god.

 

[human-slaughter]

Actually, you do. Hey, maybe they might discover magical interstellar unicorns that love rocking out to Ride of the Valkyries and oppressing primate-analogs while at our level of advancement! That's possible too!

Hey CHARLIEEEEEE, HEY CHARLIEEEEEEE, Hey Charlie Wake up.

 

[bestshot9]

The aliens are already here. They walk among us. Humans interact with them all the time during the day, and don't even realize what they are interacting with isn't of this world. I wont tell you what they are (those in power will kill me if I do) but I can tell you it is the last thing you'd expect.

 

[Symphony D.]

Hey CHARLIEEEEEE, HEY CHARLIEEEEEEE, Hey Charlie Wake up.

CHARLIE DON'T SURF!

 

[Dachs]

It is possible, just as possible as there being a god.

You don't believe in God...so what's your so-called "point"?

In other news, Coke >>>>>>>> Pepsi.

 

[Luckymoose]

You don't believe in God...so what's your so-called "point"?

In other news, Coke >>>>>>>> Pepsi.

If he says I need a degree to say something can be possible, why isn't he complaining about all the religious people in the world.

 

[Symphony D.]

If he says I need a degree to say something can be possible, why isn't he complaining about all the religious people in the world.

Because one is faith-based. It does not have empirical proofs or disproofs. The other is fact-based, and does, and quite frankly you are not qualified to discuss them, not that anyone here really is.

 

[Luckymoose]

Because one is faith-based. It does not have empirical proofs or disproofs. The other is fact-based, and does, and quite frankly you are not qualified to discuss them, not that anyone here really is.

Wouldn't you agree that, however unlikely it is, the chance of flying magical unicorns is possible.

 

[Symphony D.]

Wouldn't you agree that, however unlikely it is, the chance of flying magical unicorns is possible.

Any given quantum state is possible. You could also teleport into the Playboy Mansion tomorrow while you sleep. A billion dollars could magically appear in my fridge next weekend.

Thing is, the probability of that happening is about as close a number you can get to zero without it being zero, and if the entire lifetime of the universe were to play itself out a few hundred thousand times, with all the quadrillions of years that entails and the nigh infinite if not in fact infinite space contained therein, it still wouldn't happen. So yeah, I think it might be possible, in a fraction of universes approximating 1/∞, and I don't happen to think we live in one. In short, no, it's not going to happen.

That also has no real bearing on the matter of wormholes, because those aren't a statistical probability, they are governed by physical laws. Laws... you don't have the faintest clue about, and have no need to even think about.

 

[Abaddon]

Aww, but I want unicorns

 

[Symphony D.]

Sorry kid, the Russians captured Santa Claus when they claimed the North Pole.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

Sorry kid, the Russians captured Santa Claus when they claimed the North Pole.

I had a sudden vision of an action flick where a team of American secret agents has to bust Santa Claus out of a Russian gulag. If something like that doesn't exist, it should.

 

[Dachs]

I had a sudden vision of an action flick where a team of American secret agents has to bust Santa Claus out of a Russian gulag. If something like that doesn't exist, it should.

Jack Kirby once made a Christmas comic for DC that featured his version of the Sandman (who ain't even close to the real deal) and Jed freeing Santa from the clutches of the seal king, who was pissed that he'd gotten the wrong presents by mistake a few centuries back. (Turns out it was a clerical error or something.) It also involved a random other evil dude and...yeah. Yeah. Shut up, Dachs.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Unless our potential invaders are stupid, they will either mostly leave us alone, or exterminate us.

I would agree, and the fact we haven't been exterminated yet seems to say something positive about the universe, although I find it interesting to imagine how consciousness would actually work after thousands or millions or billions of years of rampaging technology, effortless survival and intellectual development... maybe 'they' have a grander and much more sinister mode of operating than we can imagine

 

[andis-1]

Sorry kid, the Russians captured Santa Claus when they claimed the North Pole.

It's a fake santa then, sincethe real one is still here in finland

 

[Angst]

We should own the North Pole, not the Russians.

 

[germanicus12]

Who's we? The Canadians or Americans?

Becuase I always believe(d) the Canadians truly owns it.

 

[Shadowbound]

The North Pole belongs to the Elves.

 

[human-slaughter]

The Dark Elves that overthrew Santa in 1432 AD and forced the parents to continue the tradition. And any child who finds out about this, their parents have an early demise.

 

[Dachs]

The Dark Elves that overthrew Santa in 1432 AD and forced the parents to continue the tradition. And any child who finds out about this, their parents have an early demise.

1432 eh? No wonder Satan was born that year...