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SETI; do you beleive...
Topic Started: Dec 28 2007, 07:19 AM (912 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
LWpianistin
Dec 28 2007, 08:23 AM

Yeah, yeah, we get it. You don't like each other.

"But Mommy, he started it!"

It's like watching 7 year olds throw mud at each other.

At least they keep it to themselves and don't bring it into public discussion.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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OperaTenor
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big al
Dec 28 2007, 08:47 AM
JBryan
Dec 28 2007, 07:29 AM
I believe the chance that there isn't some other intelligence in a universe so vast is vanishingly small.

My view as well.

Big Al

I think the "other" part is a bit presumptuous, myself....

:D



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Phlebas
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"Lonesome outerspace invader blasting through the night
Tuning in the soul music on the satellite
All that low-down funky rhythm makes him jump and shout
Just got to find that ghetto planet that everyone's talkin' about

Tuning in the local scene on the radio
The D.J. on the radar screen is telling him where to go
The funky fever's getting louder, sounds just like a soul encounter
Cruisin' for some bar-b-que right up Central Avenue
And he's got a little dance he wants to do

He pulls up to a big night club in his UFO
Gets right in with all the folks out on the big dance floor
It really stops the action, everybody's mystified
To see that little step he's got as he goes glidin' by

('Now, he ain't doin' the Gigolo 'cause he ain't got no hips
Looks like the Funky Chicken man, 'cept he ain't got no hips
Those shiny metal threads he's wearin' really got some class
I'd say he was doin' the Bomp, but I can't seem to find his ass ')

Now, everybody fall in love
He's reet, he's neat, he can't be beat
You shake your shimmy like I shake mine
He's hand held and he's jet propelled
Shake it up from sun to sun
He's fast and loose, he's full of juice
Shake it like an atomic bomb
He's got the goose so what's the use
That UFO has landed in the ghetto
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Might that be Bootsie Collins and his funky Space Bass?
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Phlebas
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Kincaid
Dec 28 2007, 09:46 AM
Might that be Bootsie Collins and his funky Space Bass?

Ry Cooder trying to sound like Bootsy Collins.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Klaus
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Maybe. Maybe not.

There is a statistical argument in favor of ET life, but I am not sure whether it holds water.

It there is ETL, it is still likely that we will never contact them due to the huge distances. We can only contact them if they are within a few lightyears or so.
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Frank_W
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I'm agnostic, when it comes to intelligent alien life. If it had any intelligence whatsoever, it would stay far far away from planet Earth. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if there IS intelligent life out there, Earth is the trailer park of the galaxy.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Frank_W
Dec 28 2007, 10:05 AM
I'm agnostic, when it comes to intelligent alien life. If it had any intelligence whatsoever, it would stay far far away from planet Earth. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if there IS intelligent life out there, Earth is the trailer park of the galaxy.

Yeah, but maybe Earth's a great fixer-upper or an ideal starter planet. The cosmic real estate market might not be the same as our own, y'know.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Frank_W
Dec 28 2007, 10:05 AM
Earth is the trailer park of the galaxy.

The most articulate and eloquent summation I've read yet!

:D


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It's ten after four in the afternoon, and everybody in the world mysteriously falls asleep. Just like that, they are driving cars, whatever they are doing, bang!, they got to sleep, the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans, and the whole world sleeps for exactly one hour, till ten after five, and they wake up at ten after five, and mysteriously upon awakening everybody in the world find themselves in the pants business.

Stay with us, 'cause it's brilliant.

Everybody is making cuffs and flies and cutting velvet, y'know, And a spaceship lands from another planet, and men get out with jackets and shirts and black socks - no trousers at all. They say: "Are the pants ready?" We say: "No. Could you come back thursday?". They say they must have them, 'cause they are going to a wedding, and we work dillingently and make pants constantly and they come to get them, and when they come to pick them up, they leave us with socks, hankerchiefs, pillowcases and soiled linnen, and they say: "Do it!", and the president of the United States goes on television and says that an alien superpower from outer space with superior intelligence is bringing us their laundry, and they are foiled, 'cause they travelled a hundred and seventeen million lightyears to pick it up, and they forget their ticket.

"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Woody Allen! I had that album.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Klaus
Dec 28 2007, 11:00 AM
Maybe. Maybe not.

There is a statistical argument in favor of ET life, but I am not sure whether it holds water.

It there is ETL, it is still likely that we will never contact them due to the huge distances. We can only contact them if they are within a few lightyears or so.


Drake's equation?

There's also the rare earth theory that statistically argues against it, but I ain't betting either way.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Free Rider
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I just got home from work. All of these replies are awesome.

I liked reading this thread...Larry is hilarious...Frank you're right on.

I was surfing around the internet and came across some stuff mentioning aliens and SETI...

I do not think we are alone....just very far away from somewhere else with life.

Just a hunch!
Thanks for the fun
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Frank_W
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Yeah.. There doesn't seem to be much life down here. That's for sure. :lol2:

Maybe when I get my Camaro off of them concrete blocks and move into a double-wide! Ah... Then we'll be livin' the good life!! :D
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Free Rider
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you have a Camaro?

What color!

You should be careful because I heard that if you drive a white Camaro after dark you will be abducted by aliens.

Supposedly they LOVE white camaros with the 1983 body style. T top.
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Frank_W
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:lol2: Nawwww.. I don't, but a friend of mine seriously has a white t-top Camaro.

I drive a white Jeep. (with lots of stuff on it, hanging off of it, falling off of it, and held together with duct tape, mud, and a prayer to the Jeep Gods.) LOL
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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Free Rider
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Be careful when you go out at night with your friend. I'm surprised he hasn't been nabbed yet.

I think you're Okay with that jeep as long as you do not have one of those big antennas whipping around. That attracts them. :o

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Frank_W
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Well, I don't have a wire-whip antenna, but I have a big Firestick antenna sticking....

Ohhhhh noooooooo.... Here they come!! And me, without my tinfoil hat!! :hair: :eek:



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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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bachophile
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i like stephen hawking's simple proof that time travel is impossible.

if it were, why havent we been visited from the distant future?

or maybe we have?
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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HOLY CARP!!!
bachophile
Dec 29 2007, 02:35 AM
i like stephen hawking's simple proof that time travel is impossible.

if it were, why havent we been visited from the distant future?

or maybe we have?

It may be that time travel is only physically possible to/from a few specific points on the time line and to/from a few specific places, not "any time, any where"; the Earth may not yet have reached any time traveling entry/exit point since its formation for all we know. :)
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bachophile
Dec 28 2007, 11:35 PM
i like stephen hawking's simple proof that time travel is impossible.

if it were, why havent we been visited from the distant future?

or maybe we have?

Why would people want to come back here unless the future were really bad?
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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ivorythumper
Dec 29 2007, 03:02 PM
bachophile
Dec 28 2007, 11:35 PM
i like stephen hawking's simple proof that time travel is impossible.

if it were, why havent we been visited from the distant future?

or maybe we have?

Why would people want to come back here unless the future were really bad?

To point and laugh.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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ivorythumper
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Good point.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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sue
Dec 28 2007, 12:50 PM
big al
Dec 28 2007, 09:47 AM
JBryan
Dec 28 2007, 07:29 AM
I believe the chance that there isn't some other intelligence in a universe so vast is vanishingly small.

My view as well.

Big Al

Mine too.

Agreed. I think the majority conception of life is an old one, that life can only exists under certain very, very narrow conditions. Now we find that there is life in very deep rock formations, under incredible pressure underwater and in intense heat of volcanbic areas.

I believe life is probably as fundamental to the universe as the known elements themselves.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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