temple posted:

personal top tier alien

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

i just wanna smoke alien weed one time is that too much to ask?

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

i just wanna smoke weed with a alien one time is that too much to ask?

Winkle-Daddy posted:

just gonna drop my favorite ufo adjacent conspiracy here while we all wait for these dozens of whistleblowers to come forward: https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/

tl;dr -- nasa engineer discovers ftl communication device on Mars rovers and something on Mars is being hidden. I'm sure it's fake, but the computer science details seem to check out and are really neat

LuckyCat posted:

Here's a dece article from NPR on this (although it's from 7 years ago): https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2...icle%20Physics.

temple posted:

My personal top tier alien would be a mute starman like lost alien type that shows up and chills with people. But he'd be famous and know poo poo like how to get super high but no freak out or addiction and maybe some nerd poo poo like perpetual motion. All the k pop guys would imitate him but tell people to not get vacines and that would be bad. Overall the starman would be embraced by all as a visitor that would tour the world and have a netflix show where people try to marry him and he'd play with fidget spinners and poo poo.

Olewithmilk posted:

Look at this Alien's huge hog, the alien hog website

Khanstant posted:

Watching some old Unsolved Mysteries earlier and I love when they aliens can travel the stars, but they can't figure out how to turn off their little external lights when they go for a probin

redshirt posted:

Someone earlier mentioned that maybe we are The Progenitors, we are the ones to spread life and technology across the Universe. I find this idea more plausible (though still highly unlikely) than advanced aliens visiting us, apparently regularly.

Consider: The Universe is approximately 14.5 billion years old. Our Sun (and Solar System) is about 4.5 billion years old. That 10 billion year gap may seem like a lot, but the early Universe was not hospitable. Giant stars made of almost pure hydrogen were exploding fast, all over. It was these explosions that created all the rest of the elements - oxygen, carbon, iron, etc. And that took a long time to spread across space. Our sun is a 3rd generation star, and perhaps it is only with this generation of stars that rocky worlds filled with elements could be created, and then life evolved to use these elements.

In sum, we might be the first or one of the first advanced societies in the Universe, strange as that may seem.

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

i just wanna smoke weed with a alien one time is that too much to ask?

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

i just wanna smoke weed with a alien one time is that too much to ask?

Olewithmilk posted:

That's a pretty strong jump. What's your explanation as to why there's no signals/probes/evidence of life? We just don't have the ability to detect it yet?

Bug Squash posted:

It's a bit of a frought time for the UFO community. Got all hyped up about the whistleblower but it's all a wet fart. Like, I saw a guy saying it was going to mark the start of a new BC/AD type split, and then it comes out and no-one cares about some guy saying he has 2nd hand rumours.

Olewithmilk posted:

That's a pretty strong jump. What's your explanation as to why there's no signals/probes/evidence of life? We just don't have the ability to detect it yet?

Chris Pistols posted:

The film Nope is really good and I enjoy it.

Chris Pistols posted:

The film Nope is really good and I enjoy it.

flubber nuts posted:

is it pronounced ooh-fo or you-fo?

Houle posted:

So John Greenewald Jr (the black vault) thinks Luis Elizondo was the one who leaked those vids New York times published back in 2017 cause he gave there different reasons for quitting. That and when he joined Blink-182 he said new videos are going to be dropped soon then tried to get the navy to declassify those vids.

I think I have gone full circle from thinking it could be aliens to thinking it is some weird magnetic hologram thing that tricks sensors into thinking they are seeing a solid object the states are working on. At least the ones over water.

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

i reckon there are probably some places in the universe where intelligent life could find other intelligent life. the numbers are so big that there has to be at least a few solar systems out there that ended up with multiple planets that could independently evolve intelligent life.

not us though, we're in the arse end of nowhere.

Chinatown posted:

Facebook Aunt posted:

It makes sense that every planet that has evolved one intelligent species of "people" has dozens. Including earth. We know some of them, like the neanderthals, died out (mostly). There are probably others that we don't even acknowledge as being people because they are too alien and don't wear pants. Like octopuses.

Chris Pistols posted:

The film Nope is really good and I enjoy it.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Also parrots & whales

deep dish peat moss posted:

and dolphins, and elephants, and pigs, and ravens, crows, and pigeons, and chimpanzees and bonobos, and rats

e: and raccoons and cats and dogs and squirrels


We thought we were special for so long but modern animal science is realizing we basically ain't poo poo except opposable thumbs, cooking our food, and complex recordable/written language (which likely comes from opposable thumbs or cooking our food).