Galaxy may be full of 'Earths,' alien life

Preussen · Feb 26, 2009

3peet said:
A professor from an evolution class brought up and interesting point that I'll never forget. "If another form of intelligent life actually found us, are we so sure we wanna be found?" Meaning, if their technology is so far advanced that they're able to travel space in ways we can't even fathom......is that actually good thing?

Never forgot that one.

I learned in school that any civilisation mastering interstellar travel must be highly developed enough to have evolved into some sort of peace-loving, communist society. However, I'm not quite sure if everything I learned in the GDR was correct. ;-)

But seriously, I believe there is a much greater probability of the aliens being so different from us that this alone makes contact impossible.
It always baffles me why scientists usually look for Earth-like planets with water. Who says that just because life has developed on Earth that it can only develop in Earth-like conditions and must be fundamentally similar to organisms we know?

pachyna · Feb 26, 2009

wow you definately read my mind. i think it is ridiculous to believe that Earth is the standard for the rest of the Universe.

Daheavy1 · Feb 26, 2009

Scott L said:
Probably the one thing I'd love to find out before I die. And I won't. Are we alone?

What happens when we find a planet just like ours and they have 3-4 different religions, none of which are like any of ours? Or no religion at all? Do they all go to hell?

I thought Mulder and Scully already proved we're not alone.

roadreeler57 · Feb 26, 2009

The ancient egyptians had special help building the pyramids...For anybody to say we are the only intelligent life would just be super arrogant.

DeathEatsaCracker · Feb 26, 2009

tiznow said:
Even if intelligent civilizations did exist at the same time, they probably would be be separated by tens of thousands of light years, Forgan said. If aliens have just switched on their transmitter to communicate, it could take us hundreds of centuries to receive their message, he added.

As for interstellar travel, the huge distances virtually rule out any extraterrestrial visitors. iReport.com: Share your view of the universe

To illustrate, Boss said the fastest rockets available to us right now are those being used in NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. Even going at that rate of speed, it would take 100,000 years to get from Earth to the closest star outside the solar system, he added.

It always surprises me when scientists think like this. They are trying to take our current technological levels and extrapolate out from there. Who knows what fantastic technologies a civilization a million years older than us have delevoped? I would say intelligent forms that much more advanced than us have pretty much mastered the aspect of cruising around the galaxy (and perhaps even outside it) at will. I would think that most civilizations don't have the ability to get here and those that do could care less about us.

I suspect in our lifetime, we will discover complex (complex

intelligent) right here in our solar system.

DeathEatsaCracker · Feb 26, 2009

Preussen said:
Seeing the scientific progress we made in the last few hundred years I daresay if mankind exists for another billion years we will find a solution for that problem, either by messing with the sun or by finding another planet to live on (I assume that we have colonised other planets by then anyway).
Of course no-one can predict how long mankind will last but arguably we already are the most adaptable species on the planet and unless we kill ourselves in the nearer future I believe we should be able to deal with any crisis, at least in a way that prevents our extinction.

Are you familiar with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku? By that time, we would be a Type III civilization and be pretty much able to do whatever we like, include manipulate stars. Currently, we are a Type zero civilization but we are only a few hundred years from being a Type I.

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DeathEatsaCracker · Feb 26, 2009

Scott L said:
Probably the one thing I'd love to find out before I die. And I won't. Are we alone?

What happens when we find a planet just like ours and they have 3-4 different religions, none of which are like any of ours? Or no religion at all? Do they all go to hell?

If we get to a point where we can actually find and interact with another intelligent species, we will have long outgrown religion.

DeathEatsaCracker · Feb 26, 2009

tiznow said:
we are at the sun's mercy there's no "messing with" that can be done

the sun emits the equivalent of 80 million nuclear bombs per second

as for colonizing planets everything from the earth in is toast.....it won't survive at some point due to the sun......

plus the expansion of the sun is the sun dieing eventually it's done for and i see no way humans can survive without the sun's energy

like if the sun burnt out tomorrow we are toast done for.....extinct along with ever other species on our planet

i think the outer planets (their moons) could be potentially a location to setup shop in the future as the sun expands and the earth gets to fuckin hot

outside our solar system gonna be tough to physically reach (just due to length of time it takes to travel there) IMO regardless of how good the space technology gets

regardless A. each other B. mother nature throwing a bug at us we can't stop C. meteor strike we can't deflect or D. who knows? probably gets us way before than anyway

Your post could not have crammed more FAIL and small thinking into it. See the Kaku video above.

Dave007inVegas · Feb 26, 2009

I believe there are intelligent life forms far superior to humans that monitor our evolution. I also believe they are amused.

Dave007inVegas · Feb 26, 2009

3peet said:
A professor from an evolution class brought up and interesting point that I'll never forget. "If another form of intelligent life actually found us, are we so sure we wanna be found?" Meaning, if their technology is so far advanced that they're able to travel space in ways we can't even fathom......is that actually good thing?

Never forgot that one.

I guess that hinge on whether they were liberal or conservative.
Bwhahahaha

DeathEatsaCracker · Feb 26, 2009

Dave007inVegas said:
I believe there are intelligent life forms far superior to humans that monitor our evolution. I also believe they are amused.

Or pissed.

festeringZit · Feb 26, 2009

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

barman · Feb 26, 2009

Dave007inVegas said:
I believe there are intelligent life forms far superior to humans that monitor our evolution. I also believe they are amused.

It's most certainly reasonable that there are literally a couple billion intelligent life forms - many former residents of Earth who have passed to a different plane of existence - who have ability to observe the behavior and actions of our current human population.

I concur there's little doubt that most would be amused, much as we find amusement watching a young child stumbling and plodding their way through life.

Railbird · Feb 26, 2009

IT would be pretty hard to find 7 bigger morons in One thread.

ScottL · Feb 26, 2009

8 now

Railbird · Feb 26, 2009

yes, Landick makes 8

RobFunk · Feb 26, 2009

Railbird said:
IT would be pretty hard to find 7 bigger morons in One thread.

Why not give us your thoughts instead of the troll posts?

Thanks in advance

Railbird · Feb 26, 2009

My thoughts are not your guys thoughts. You people are of the world which is with satan. You people are hell bound fools who hate the truth.

Railbird · Feb 26, 2009

RobFunk said:
Why not give us your thoughts instead of the troll posts?

Thanks in advance

I dont make "troll" posts. I make truth posts. I think for myself, I dont let my mommy and my 3rd grade teacher tell me how to think like you people do.

Railbird · Feb 26, 2009

thanks in advance

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