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rezatahs posted:knowing the vastness of this universe and thinking all life in it resides on our rock is seriously so monumentally stupid you just have to laugh We haven't found evidence of anything to the contrary, though. Even the "fossilized bacteria" the other poster referred to is, at best, a theory and not indicative of extraterrestrial life. We're alone. And that's a good thing, because if there happens to be intelligent life out there, it will be hostile. Peter Watts' book Blindsight does a pretty good job of explaining why in the quote on this page. Look at human history -- the entirety of our technology is based on either conflict or information gained from conflict. Even our space program is a result of war research; we went to the moon just to whip out our collective dicks and wave them furiously at Russia.
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Gatekeeper posted:"right now any speculation on number and size of breasts is just that, speculation, for all we know they lay eggs, but that said we've all got our fingers crossed for a platypus situation where they plop big honkin eggsies out their butts but also have space nipples on their space tits. eight space tits." What do you think that would smell like haha
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# ? Jun 27, 2017 23:15 |
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Katamari Democracy posted:Either this is a hilarious Hoax made by Anonymous, or this is really going to happen. i feel sorry for you that you can only imagine these two outcomes
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Katamari Democracy posted:Somewhere, someone is going to get totally turned on. Who is going to be the first to gently caress an alien. five bucks says it's a real dumb hoax
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# ? Jun 27, 2017 23:37 |
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i thought the bar for hilarious hoax was higher than putting a headline on your own website without any substantiating claims
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# ? Jun 27, 2017 23:44 |
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the sad part is alien life wouldn't even be that big a deal back in the whatevers there were people actually concerned that if we discover alien life it would like, destroy all the religions and anarchy would reign, everyone would just lose their loving minds at the idea that we weren't the only sentience. they carefully planned progressive disclosures and poo poo to warm everyone up to the idea, really roll it in super slow like but now people can literally have their house washed away, or just straight up die, by something they don't, or can't, believe in. they can let their kids die because they conclude that is the safest thing for them. and the attention economy has gone completely zero-sum already, so your news bulletin has to fight with exponentially better crafted entertainment. either: the few people who even heard about it would go huh thats cool and then go back to binging Spiderman versus Indiana Jones on Netflix, or: everyone would go nuts for it, it would be the trending hashtag for three months, and it would be instantly commercialised. every store would be filled with lovely plastic alien poo poo until everyone hates aliens forever, which would take about 3 weeks then as little as 4 weeks after that people would say stuff like "oh yeah, that's right, aliens do exist, huh thats cool" and then forget again and go back to binging the Backstreet Boy Batmen on Netflix
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 00:18 |
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If aliens exist then how come I'm still gay?
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 00:22 |
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I want to go on record that there are no space aliens.
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 00:25 |
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hitchensgoespop posted:If aliens exist then how come I'm still gay? I want NASA to confirm the existence of gayliens
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I want to go on record that there are no space aliens. Im a space alien
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 00:55 |
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wide stance posted:That's a lot easier than removing 99.9999999% of earth bacteria from a spacecraft to avoid false positives. i always liked the idea that one of our probes we sent out decades ago has dormant chickenpox particles that, to the first intelligent life that makes contact with our probe, becomes Space Aids and wipes them all out
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:12 |
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Gatekeeper posted:"right now any speculation on number and size of breasts is just that, speculation, for all we know they lay eggs, but that said we've all got our fingers crossed for a platypus situation where they plop big honkin eggsies out their butts but also have space nipples on their space tits. eight space tits." I stopped reading at this post so I could tell you that actually platypus don't have nipples they secrete milk from pores and it runs down their folds and the babies put their mouth on the bottom of the folds
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:17 |
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violent sex idiot posted:I stopped reading at this post so I could tell you that actually platypus don't have nipples they secrete milk from pores and it runs down their folds and the babies put their mouth on the bottom of the folds Platypus aren't real lol, it's just a beaver with a duck bill glued on
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:21 |
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violent sex idiot posted:I stopped reading at this post so I could tell you that actually platypus don't have nipples they secrete milk from pores and it runs down their folds and the babies put their mouth on the bottom of the folds gently caress keep going i'm almost there
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:23 |
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:24 |
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Is it possible anonymous misspelled NSA?
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:27 |
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Screaming Idiot posted:We haven't found evidence of anything to the contrary, though. Even the "fossilized bacteria" the other poster referred to is, at best, a theory and not indicative of extraterrestrial life. I think, haha, you will find that you just aren't creative enough. You can only imagine aliens that act like humans. Or like life as we know it. Or like pretty much anything we've ever seen or experienced. Where-as I, an intellectual, can imagine aliens different from anything our own limited human knowledge could possibly predict. Picture aliens who so alien that they're nice to me and want to have sex with me.
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hitchensgoespop posted:If aliens exist then how come I'm still gay? Well poo poo. Never thought of it that way. Makes you think.
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Chomp8645 posted:The problem with space is that it's boring. if we blow our alien wad on bacteria people will be like oh oh there's alien bacteria that will make me poo poo a lot uh ok, we gotta hold out for the good stuff (alien equivalent of pete & pete)
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a bone to pick posted:Bacterial fossils have been found in several meteors "The interpretation that such objects are microbe fossils is still vigorously debated, " "according to The Sun"
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# ? Jun 28, 2017 01:48 |
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What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something?
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Harakiri Potter posted:What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something? keanumatrixwoah.gif
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Harakiri Potter posted:What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something? We're all Golgafrinchans.
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Harakiri Potter posted:What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something? I would watch that movie
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Decebal posted:Seems to me like "finding life" is only an afterthought at NASA or somewhere around 20% interest. Every time they launch something is to "test the rock composition that will tell us about the beginning of the Solar System" or " analyze the cloud structure on Saturn so we can send a cool picture of some gas" It's an incremental process. They are working toward those big picture questions, but even if you had unlimited funding it's not clear how you would just design an instrument that would definitively answer the question about whether there is life or not. You can't skip steps in science. You have to start from what we know - we know there is life on earth, we know our solar system is a certain way, so the logical next step is to search for similar systems. We are doing that and is one of the main goals of the Kepler mission, and the answer seems to be that yes, there are some similar systems to ours. Now the question is whether any of the planets have atmospheres that could hypothetically support life, and unfortunately for the public that requires "boring" spectroscopy. If we find a promising candidate from that then there are several possible further steps you'd have to take up to and including sending a probe to find out for sure. The point is you can't just jump to that last step and launch probes with life detecting capabilities in random directions. You'd never find anything. Space is really really huge, you have to be extremely specific about your targets. Exciting the public is one thing but we can't lie to you and promise things that just aren't realistic.
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Harakiri Potter posted:What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something? Frak!!!
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 18:07 |
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Also there have been ideas for missions to Europa for years. I don't think you realize how complicated it would be to send a probe capable of drilling through the ice and reaching the ocean, let alone detecting anything once you do that would be. Titan was easy compared to that kind of mission. If you ever experienced the bureaucracy involved with doing science while working for the government, you'd be a little more forgiving of how slow it is. Criticize the government, not the scientists. They want to find out all the cool stuff just as much as you do.
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 18:12 |
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So are the aliens rushing or going for fast expand? Should we build more cruisers?
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 18:18 |
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Screaming Idiot posted:We haven't found evidence of anything to the contrary, though. Even the "fossilized bacteria" the other poster referred to is, at best, a theory and not indicative of extraterrestrial life. They won't be hostile, most likely they will be apathetic Are humans hostile to ants? Only the most mentally ill of us are actively hostile to animals or creatures "below" us. More likely that intelligent "life" will be AI or machines after all bio life retreats into VR. And who's to say that we aren't just self replicated machines seeded throughout the universe?
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 18:27 |
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This thread is proof that man is arrogant as gently caress
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 18:43 |
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To be frank any alien dumb enough to make contact with us right now probably deserves whatever they get as a result.yeah I eat rear end posted:If you ever experienced the bureaucracy involved with doing science while working for the government, you'd be a little more forgiving of how slow it is. Criticize the government, not the scientists. They want to find out all the cool stuff just as much as you do. Edgar Mitchell posted:“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 19:35 |
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e: oops
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 19:36 |
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Hostile life forms, like humans would never develop faster than light technology as they would have killed themselves off. If aliens come, they would more than likely be a peaceful race, far, far superior to us savages.
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 19:43 |
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If we do enough dmt the machine elves will just tell us how to build portals
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 20:04 |
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do u know jenny posted:Trump all ready to deport them He's seen the movies. He knows they're only interested in sending their exotic big-game human hunters and shapechanging world destroyers to our planet. Real bad dudes.
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quote:Anonymous states, hahahahahahahaha honestly i wish a group like that (if you want to claim this unorganized scattered label as a group) had some integrity for stuff like this, but they loving ruined it
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 20:17 |
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So is Anonymous in the trolling business now? Remember when their big goal was to topple Scientology? Anonymous go away.
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# ? Jun 30, 2017 20:19 |
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Joe Mama Poonana posted:hahahahahahahaha I saw the last Fast & Furious movie which involves a bunch of sports cars fighting a nuclear submarine and The Rock redirecting torpedo with his bare hands and the most unrealistic thing in the movie remains a line where people are taking anonymous seriously
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Hostile life forms, like humans would never develop faster than light technology as they would have killed themselves off. If aliens come, they would more than likely be a peaceful race, far, far superior to us savages. This is a common line of thinking but it's flawed. Almost all of our real major advancements in science and technology were BECAUSE of warfare. I dare say without things like World War 2 we'd be decades behind in technology. If humans find something to kick the rear end of that requires FTL, we'll want to buckle down and make FTL to go kick it's rear end.
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Blazing Ownager posted:This is a common line of thinking but it's flawed. Almost all of our real major advancements in science and technology were BECAUSE of warfare. I dare say without things like World War 2 we'd be decades behind in technology. Do you think humans will live long enough to develop FTL before it kills itself off, especially if you look at the worlds current climate?
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