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Posted on 2/26/15 at 2:41 am to UFownstSECsince1950
If threads like the one about girls with big foreheads are considered, I'd say we're all up shite's creek. Those aliens have made a bad investment in they're time here.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:21 am to UFownstSECsince1950
I think angelic beings have visited this planet and manifested themselves in human form.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:17 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Yes on intelligent life and more intelligent than us.
I doubt they would find us very interesting. They are probably as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba.
I doubt they would find us very interesting. They are probably as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:29 am to Upperdecker
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stupid threads about whether they exist
Some of them are interesting and well thought out. This one is not.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:31 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Definitely other intelligent life forms.
No idea if they're more or less intelligent than us.
No idea if they're more or less intelligent than us.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:48 am to UFownstSECsince1950
quote:Do you mean here on the Rant? If so, there are none. Us included.
Do you believe there are other intelligent life forms out there?More intelligent
More intelligent than us?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:57 am to TbirdSpur2010
Yes
More intelligent than us? Maybe. Depends if they are older than us and other factors.
But yes without a doubt do I believe there are other life forms out there. The odds are too great
More intelligent than us? Maybe. Depends if they are older than us and other factors.
But yes without a doubt do I believe there are other life forms out there. The odds are too great
This post was edited on 2/27/15 at 7:40 am
Posted on 2/26/15 at 6:21 am to ragacamps
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But yes without a doubt do a believe there are other life forms out there.
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The odds are to great
Posted on 2/26/15 at 6:23 am to mattytiger123
There isn't intelligent life here, so the universe is 0 for 1 minimum.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 6:43 am to UFownstSECsince1950
More intelligent than you? Unquestionably.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 6:59 am to UFownstSECsince1950
More intelligent than us? Yes. Assuming space is infinite, it is insane to think we are the only life existing within it.
Do you think they are aware of us or that we exist? Yes.
Maybe they have visited our planet before? I think it's possible that they have since the beginning of time.
Hundreds or even thousands of years ago? Yup.
Maybe they even monitor our planet right now, and keep tabs on what we are doing? NASA mission recordings made me believe this. Ships seen hovering around planet and/or following space capsule on mission.
Maybe they even manipulate how our planet is run. They have control over how things work here? I think they have intervened and inserted their knowledge into our culture to expedite our technology.
Do you think they are aware of us or that we exist? Yes.
Maybe they have visited our planet before? I think it's possible that they have since the beginning of time.
Hundreds or even thousands of years ago? Yup.
Maybe they even monitor our planet right now, and keep tabs on what we are doing? NASA mission recordings made me believe this. Ships seen hovering around planet and/or following space capsule on mission.
Maybe they even manipulate how our planet is run. They have control over how things work here? I think they have intervened and inserted their knowledge into our culture to expedite our technology.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:09 am to UFownstSECsince1950
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More intelligent than us?
Yes
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Do you think they are aware of us or that we exist
I doubt it.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:16 am to CoachDon
I sure hope you aren't teaching anyone CoachDon.
You sound like this guy
You sound like this guy
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:16 am to UFownstSECsince1950
My dad sure does
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:19 am to UFownstSECsince1950
No.
And if there were and they were "more intelligent" why would they waste their time studying the idiots who inhabit this planet?
And if there were and they were "more intelligent" why would they waste their time studying the idiots who inhabit this planet?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:28 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Yes there are life forms smarter than us. Our planet for example harbors millions of species, live in every environment possible yet we don't make our presence know to each one. You don't see us checking in with each ant pile, declaring our dominance, so why would other life forms in our universe exponentially more vast than our planet do the same?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:29 am to UFownstSECsince1950
I don't believe there's other intelligent life on this board
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:31 am to TeddyPadillac
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I sure hope you aren't teaching anyone CoachDon.
No sir, I'm not. LOL
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:31 am to UFownstSECsince1950
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Do you believe there are other intelligent life forms out there?
The Drake equation is full of variables that we have no basis for estimating. I'd like to believe that the universe is teeming with intelligent life, but in the absence of any evidence I'm more or less an alien agnostic. There are a lot of possibilities though: maybe we're the first; maybe the evidence of other civilizations is being withheld from us by some other far more advanced civilization; maybe we're still in front of the Great Filter and we're doomed as a species, etc.
The big fly in the ointment to me is that, on a cosmological time-scale it doesn't take all that long to colonize large parts of a galaxy. You're looking at a few dozen million years even with the slow-arse technology that we can conceive of today. So if any civilization can survive for that long we ought to be seeing signs of it in the form of very large engineering projects like Dyson spheres or star realignment. Of course there are other explanations: maybe civilizations that last that long aren't interested in colonizing the universe; maybe they don't make visible engineering projects as suggested; maybe they only 'colonize' with drones that we wouldn't detect; etc. This is why I remain agnostic about the whole thing.
I'd be surprised if there isn't microbial life on other planets though, if through no other mechanism than panspermia. And I guess it's logical to say that intelligent life is almost a certainty if the universe is truly infinite, but I'm not sure it means anything if you're talking about something so rare that it's at a distance we have no hope of reaching. Unfortunately with our current understanding of physics, FTL travel violates causality, which is something that I really can't believe in.
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