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Old 10-12-2017, 04:49 PM   #7461 (permalink)
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Maybe you were abducted by the Tooth Fairy.
I think you nailed it.
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Old 10-12-2017, 05:05 PM   #7462 (permalink)
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Do you mean us as a form of logical evidence or is there some stuff I don't know about?
I guess I shouldn't have used the word evidence, as obviously if there was actual evidence that would be a huge news story. I suppose I should say indications, from cave paintings showing what appears to be a space man, to UFO sightings and the accounts of abductees, and so on, there's a lot to suggest that we were visited. I'm no UFO nut, I haven't done any research but even if there wasn't even a scrap of possible evidence I would still conclude there had to be more life in the universe than us. The conditions for life surely exist on some of the billions of planets in our galaxy, and that's only one of many galaxies. It would be ludicrous to insist or believe we are the only intelligent life forms in such a vast cosmos.
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I really want to see TH talk about how he was abducted by aliens.
I .... I .. No. I still ca-can't t-t-talk about it....

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But in reality he just got kidnapped and assaulted by an ugly dude.
Even ugly dudes don't want to abduct me.
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Dafuq does that mean?
You know what it means. You have a reputation, dude, like it or not. You're the resident conspiracy nut. This would be right up your street.
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Old 10-12-2017, 05:10 PM   #7463 (permalink)
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I guess I shouldn't have used the word evidence, as obviously if there was actual evidence that would be a huge news story. I suppose I should say indications, from cave paintings showing what appears to be a space man, to UFO sightings and the accounts of abductees, and so on, there's a lot to suggest that we were visited. I'm no UFO nut, I haven't done any research but even if there wasn't even a scrap of possible evidence I would still conclude there had to be more life in the universe than us. The conditions for life surely exist on some of the billions of planets in our galaxy, and that's only one of many galaxies. It would be ludicrous to insist or believe we are the only intelligent life forms in such a vast cosmos.

I .... I .. No. I still ca-can't t-t-talk about it....


Even ugly dudes don't want to abduct me.

You know what it means. You have a reputation, dude, like it or not. You're the resident conspiracy nut. This would be right up your street.
Have you learned nothing.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 10-12-2017, 05:35 PM   #7464 (permalink)
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"The adult sperm whale brain is 8,000 cubic centimeters. Our brain is about 1300 cubic centimeters."
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Ah. So let's leave it up to whales to solve the problems of Global Warming. Assuming the Japanese stop killing them.
TH beats me to it! We just need to genetically modify a few whales so they have opposable thumbs and fluency in English...

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Just be careful what you wish for......

Thanks, Chula! Watch out for a guy who turns up with a rucksack full of tortillas and world music cds, ok?
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Have you learned nothing.
*Have you learned nothing?

Obviously not: I'm too stupid to learn, remember?
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I suppose I should say indications, from cave paintings showing what appears to be a space man, to UFO sightings and the accounts of abductees, and so on, there's a lot to suggest that we were visited.
and you're calling me [MERIT]?

Read about SETI.
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and you're calling me [MERIT]?

Read about SETI.
I didn't call you [MERIT]: I said I wasn't having a [MERIT]-style discussion with you about why I believe there's life in the universe other than ours. I know about SETI: if they didn't think there was a chance of there being life out there they'd shut that thing down, wouldn't they? Sure they even think it's possible life might exist on Europa, and life may have existed on Mars at one point. I can't see why you, or anyone else, would totally dismiss the possibility when the parameters of the search are so immense that there is no way it could be discounted as being futile.
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I didn't call you [MERIT]: I said I wasn't having a [MERIT]-style discussion with you about why I believe there's life in the universe other than ours. I know about SETI: if they didn't think there was a chance of there being life out there they'd shut that thing down, wouldn't they? Sure they even think it's possible life might exist on Europa, and life may have existed on Mars at one point. I can't see why you, or anyone else, would totally dismiss the possibility when the parameters of the search are so immense that there is no way it could be discounted as being futile.
It's more the alien abduction thing.
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I didn't call you [MERIT]: I said I wasn't having a [MERIT]-style discussion with you about why I believe there's life in the universe other than ours. I know about SETI: if they didn't think there was a chance of there being life out there they'd shut that thing down, wouldn't they? Sure they even think it's possible life might exist on Europa, and life may have existed on Mars at one point. I can't see why you, or anyone else, would totally dismiss the possibility when the parameters of the search are so immense that there is no way it could be discounted as being futile.
Please excuse my meritless assuption.

I'm almost certain that the rare earth hypothesis is wrong and life does indeed spring up elsewhere around the universe, galaxy, and maybe even solar system. The point is there's no trace of any attempt to communicate, radio waves of any sort, or any sort of Dyson Spere type of megastructures. If the reasonable assumption is that humanity is not a one off the lack of evidence of our extraterrestrial cohorts suggests once they reach a certain point in technological advancement they soon die.

There's other theories. What I'm saying isn't indisputed or rock solid but it's the conclusion that strikes me as the most likely. My assumption is we're following the same course and it sure seems like it.
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