Alien life: So thoughts... where will this go?

Alien life: So thoughts... where will this go?

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ruggedscotty

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5,791 posts

216 months

Saturday 12th October
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/huge-alie...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/grou...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13...

thinking about this.... could it be ? could this be the were not alone moment, the pivotable point in hsitory where it becomes official.


Imagine finding out were not alone, and it being confirmed not just hearsay. I think it would have a profound effect on the world population.

Skeptisk

8,229 posts

116 months

Saturday 12th October
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Mmmm…not exactly strong sources…

Lefty

16,640 posts

209 months

Saturday 12th October
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Or a strong thread title

NerveAgent

3,540 posts

227 months

Saturday 12th October
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I heard they were going to start with probing “rugged”scotty

Lefty

16,640 posts

209 months

Saturday 12th October
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NerveAgent said:
I heard they were going to start with probing “rugged”scotty
Looking for apostrophes.

Genuine Barn Find

5,817 posts

222 months

Saturday 12th October
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We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.

The Hypno-Toad

12,678 posts

212 months

Saturday 12th October
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Well, I for one will welcome our alien overlords and if they look like this one…



I’d definitely be able to show her where it will go…




I’m sorry it’s been a tough couple weeks and it was there, I had to use it…

cliffords

1,804 posts

30 months

Saturday 12th October
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I heard a good article on the radio on this subject on Friday.
It appears we can look and detect stuff further away than we can travel.
So even if we detected a whole bunch of other chaps , we have no way of getting to them .

slopes

40,133 posts

194 months

Saturday 12th October
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Wonder what will happen if it turns out they are humanoid?

G-wiz

2,569 posts

33 months

Saturday 12th October
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The universe is vast.

There has to be other life out there.

Skeptisk

8,229 posts

116 months

Saturday 12th October
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G-wiz said:
The universe is vast.

There has to be other life out there.
There is good chance there is life. Life started on earth fairly soon after life could have started.

Not such a good chance there is multicellular life. It took billions of years to go from single cell to multicellular life, which suggests that it is very hard/unlikely.

Even if multicellular life evolves it is not sure that intelligent species life us would evolve.

Even if an intelligent species with language, culture and science did evolve it is not sure how long such cultures would survive.

Even if they did exist, would they exist at the same time as us? And be close enough for us to get evidence of their existence?

No evidence to date that any such species does exist

Lefty

16,640 posts

209 months

Saturday 12th October
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One could argue that to assume humanity is the only intelligent life in the 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 solar systems in the observable universe is staggeringly conceited.

croyde

23,900 posts

237 months

Saturday 12th October
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We are only a few years from the Federation of Planets and Warp Drive. I saw the 1960s documentarybiggrin

lizardbrain

2,460 posts

44 months

Saturday 12th October
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It could be we are among the first.

Maybe it’s a dark forest.

Maybe it’s too hard to survive to space age.


Whichever it is, it won’t be the daily mail who solves it


J6542

2,054 posts

51 months

Saturday 12th October
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Apt user name

wc98

11,151 posts

147 months

Saturday 12th October
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Genuine Barn Find said:
We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.
Christ, did the aliens vote Labour into power as well wink

cliffords

1,804 posts

30 months

Saturday 12th October
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wc98 said:
Genuine Barn Find said:
We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.
Christ, did the aliens vote Labour into power as well wink
I suspect Labour are our best defense from anyone wanting to visit us .

EmailAddress

13,550 posts

225 months

Saturday 12th October
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I'll be happy with liquid on Mars in my lifetime.

Accidently brought back to Earth on an astronaut's wet sock.

Left to fester in a warm locker for a month before discovery.

Where it gets unwittingly discarded.

... a pocket of nanobes end up at the dump, next to a World War II navigator's watch, a rotting bunch of bananas, and a cracked Ariana Grande Sweet Like Candy 50ml Eau de Parfum bottle.

500 years later.

They come at night.

dxg

8,756 posts

267 months

Saturday 12th October
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Skeptisk said:
Mmmm…not exactly strong sources…
That's why they've been listening for years!!

Mikebentley

6,694 posts

147 months

Saturday 12th October
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I think there is more chance Zuckerberg finding intelligence somewhere in the universe than on Facebook.