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Originally posted by rusethorcain
Oh no...I saw many different reports and witness reports from these children and their teachers and the local police.
What you are suggesting...mass hysteria or hypnosis is quite out of the question. The theory you propose is quite impossible at least in this instance.
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Now, could you please explain how in the Ruwa case it would be "quite impossible"?
I am psychic. Trust me. If you don't want to know I am not here to beat you over the head with it...believe or not I don't really care
but that said
There are so many differences in the stories of the children they could not have been a mass produced or generated thought or the very similarities would be much greater. And who hypnotized them? The teacher? Did you see or hear the teacher? She would have been incapable...a grandmotherly sort she was. Do you suppose the people investigating the story did not CONSIDER mass hysteria before putting the story out?
Also these children were far from hysterical. They were calm and deliberative, obviously taken aback and gave thoughtful cohesive responses. Absolutely not hypnotism...it was a real event.
sorry about the quote thingy...can't get it right
[edit on 10-12-2009 by rusethorcain]
Originally posted by rusethorcain
There are so many differences in the stories of the children they could not have been a mass produced or generated thought or the very similarities would be much greater.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
And who hypnotized them?
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Also these children were far from hysterical. They were calm and deliberative, obviously taken aback and gave thoughtful cohesive responses.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
BE AWARE THAT NIC1HALO AND DOOMSDAY REX ARE POSTING HERE TO DISTRACT FROM THE THREAD....they are dis-informers. I urge you to sweep quickly over their posts. Now they are both on my IGNORE list.
Congrats! They are the first to get that status!
How do I know? As I told Doomsday... I am psychic.
Any biologist worth the name will tell you it's absolutely impossible. Forget about jumping through a stargate to another planet, where everything is nice and dandy. Even if the planet was livable for a human being and the air breathable, you would be dead within minutes. Orson Welles got it right in "War of The Worlds. The microbial life would do you in. You simply cannot exist in another eco-system than the one you've evolved in, period. Even different eco-systems on a planetary scale can kill you. It's what happened when the Spaniards arrived on the American continent. They brought with them disease that the local population had no resistance to, and so wiped out 90% of them.
The only way to settle permanently on another planet is to breed 'your' genetics into it, slowly directing the evolutionary process so that it goes in 'your' direction, and finally arrive at something that is 'your' species, but adapted to the eco-system of the planet.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
BE AWARE THAT NIC1HALO AND DOOMSDAY REX ARE POSTING HERE TO DISTRACT FROM THE THREAD....they are dis-informers. I urge you to sweep quickly over their posts. Now they are both on my IGNORE list.
Congrats! They are the first to get that status!
How do I know? As I told Doomsday... I am psychic.
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Just a few weeks ago, a wave of mass hysteria hit a Zimbabwe school, wherein students were "screaming wildly and complaining of visions of strange snake-like creatures and lions". Source
In February 2008, over 100 students were victims of a "demonic attack" at Ugandan school. A year before that, over 200 were affected at the same school. Source
In 2002, hundreds of students were affected by a mass hysteria that manifested as intense itching. Source
There are many more examples...
Now, could you please explain how in the Ruwa case it would be "quite impossible"?
Originally posted by Heliocentric
An intelligent life form allowed to evolve during billion of years probably control galaxies, perhaps the entire Universe as we know it.
It can probably not only manipulate stars, it probably controls the process of creating solar systems, and planets.
It can therefore probably seed life and control the evolution of that life.
It is not the same as the Panspermia theory, which states that life was seeded either randomly, or intentionally (Francis Crick). Here we're talking about direct intervention in the evolutionary process of life, ie genetic engineering,
Originally posted by gazerstar
Back on track to the original premise of this thread!LOL Nobody answered about how to get over fear of what we deem 'ugly' aliens. Are they good? Are they bad? How can we know?
Originally posted by die_another_day
All humanoids
can we please be a little more creative.
Originally posted by nik1halo
The simple fact is that in order for a race to develop technology, they must have some sort of apposeable digit in order to handle tools and perform fine motor control. Therefore, they must have hands. Those hands need to be mobile enough to be useful, so they must have arms. It is doubtful that they would use these now precious hands to walk on, as that would put wear and tear on them, so (assuming they were quadrapeds prior to evolution) bipedal is the next obvious step.
I would say that a humanoid form would almost be essential for a species to develop technologically.
E.T. May Look Just Like Us."
"Forget all those fanciful Hollywood notions about the bizarre appearance of extra-terrestrial beings. E.T., if he or she exists, actually may look much like an ordinary human being. That is the conclusion of an international authority on the origins of life who has reported the first scientific evidence that life may be fundamentally similar throughout the universe.
'When we do land on a planet some where some day, don't be surprised if somebody walks up to shake your hand.' Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma said."
Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma was director of the University of Maryland's Laboratory of Chemical Evolution. The lab has pioneered research on how life might have originated from spontaneous chemical reactions among chemicals that existed on earth billions of years ago.
www.hyper.net...