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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by SaturnFX
If I'm "caught up" in anything it is the lack of consistent and/or convincing evidence of visitation.
Maybe it's you who are getting caught up... in speculation about what an "advanced" civilization might be cabable of (light years in 4 months?) and what their motivations may be.
You got shiny ships that can go faster than light (choose your tech...grav wells, quantum teleportation, whatever the new cool science may be that gets us around)...you detect some life on a blue ball...say 4 months travel via ship
you admit you find it highly likely advanced civs may be out there somewhere...lets turn the table...make you commander of earth. You got shiny ships that can go faster than light (choose your tech...grav wells, quantum teleportation, whatever the new cool science may be that gets us around)...you detect some life on a blue ball...say 4 months travel via ship.
your saying the most logical outcome would be to...ignore it forever? not even send a few satellites around the area to keep track, or get some samples of the lifeforms?
Originally posted by antar
reply to post by Come Clean
Great post! Did the flight go down or have trouble? this is the first I heard of it, but good for you and the intuitive Senator.
Originally posted by Phage
and what their motivations may be.
now...we can continue to split hairs, in which case you will most certainly lose considering you may have mistakenly labelled me as someone without an advanced degree...or we can stick to the subject.
Originally posted by BIONICLE ALEX
all I get is curse words and hate,
Originally posted by gagol
The real question to ask ourselves is, will it be a real one or a faked one, and who will that benefit. Unfortunately, I do not have those answers.
it feels soo good when I get to tell a fundy to repent)
Originally posted by Come Clean
reply to post by SaturnFX
Here's my issue. Where is his evidence they never visited us? His point is based on the same belief as the believers. His gut, logic, or whatever tells him they never did. My gut, logic or whatever tells me they did. I've offered, at the very least, reasonable documentation they did visit us.
Where is his reasonable documentation, other than his disbelief, that they never visited us?
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by SaturnFX
it feels soo good when I get to tell a fundy to repent)
It does? How does it feel? Please can you describe the sensation to me? Is it akin to a cool breeze blowing
on your neked backside? You see where I'm going with this right?
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by gagol
The real question to ask ourselves is, will it be a real one or a faked one, and who will that benefit. Unfortunately, I do not have those answers.
Lets say for a moment it happens...who cares if its real or fake...once it happens, a earnest push to get out into space will be underway...finally...
companies will start investing in space crafts, new technologies invented to try to enhance our travelling, etc...it will be considered almost necessary...
and maybe that is the point behind the whole deal...to get a new project going and stimulate the world economy once again..get the plebs working on another pyramid.
During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
"When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.”
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth's first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.