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Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
Yes, but your basing your facts on current scientific knowlege. In the fourties a scientist made calculations on what it would take to get to the moon with full equations and everything. The answer that he came up with was it was impossible because it would take so much fuel that the rocket would'nt get off the ground. Yet come the sixties what did we do.
Originally posted by andre18
Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
Yes, but your basing your facts on current scientific knowlege. In the fourties a scientist made calculations on what it would take to get to the moon with full equations and everything. The answer that he came up with was it was impossible because it would take so much fuel that the rocket would'nt get off the ground. Yet come the sixties what did we do.
The aliens could be millions of years ahead using technology very far ahead of us but it doesn't matter how for a head they they might be, millions, billions it does't matter. Any aliens 2-300 years ahead of us are already going to something beyond biology so you can be sure when we do meet aliens in the future they're not going to be the greys or anything like us. That is why i think it's safe to say aliens haven't contacted us because the ones that are described aren't what they're really going to look like.
Let's consider our own future evolution. To begin with we're going start putting chips in our brains and stuff like that but forget all that, that's not really interesting what i think is interesting is is not the cybernetic enhancements but it's the fact that if you develop thinking machines as opposed to cybernetic enhancements for us then you've done something truly different - the point is the speed of improvement.
It should be obvious to you that if you can invent thinking machines, then they evolve very quickly. Not only because the fact of Moore's law, but also because they're not stuck with darwinian evolution, they could have lamarckian evolution.
If you have thinking machines then you have all sorts of advantages that in most cases trump what you can do with biology. Now the real argument is the time scale argument. The people in the AI community have been saying they're going to make a true thinking machine within 10 years, they've been saying that at least for 30 years....
Now let's say they don't do it an the next 10 years, they don't do it in the next 20 years. Suppose it takes until the end of the century or even the end of the next century - it doesn't matter. The point is you invent radio and within a century or two or three you invent your successor. That's a very shot period of time and that's why i think you can forget that ET's going to be some sort of biological entity, like a little grey guy with big eyes...they're be machines.
Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
Once again your basing your argument on too many assumptions. How do you know how an alien species might evolve.
You are right though they may not look anything like us, but when you consider what makes our species so succesful. Like oposable thumbs for example. Then you could say that aliens would have to have some kind of hands.
Personally i only deal with things that have some kind of hard evidence, like UFO's.
So what they look like is'nt an issue and cant be considered when dealing with the argument of whether they've contacted us. You dont need to see something to know its made contact.
Now, i find the aliens being some kind of AI theory kind of interesting and your not the first to bring it to my attention. Aliens may well be machines or bio mechanical hybrids. This is a completley different issue to whether aliens have made contact with us. Although all the arguments ive put forward during this thread. Could very well have been carried out by machines or hybrids. That does'nt change anything.
Originally posted by andre18
The aliens could be millions of years ahead using technology very far ahead of us but it doesn't matter how for a head they they might be, millions, billions it does't matter. Any aliens 2-300 years ahead of us are already going to something beyond biology so you can be sure when we do meet aliens in the future they're not going to be the greys or anything like us. That is why i think it's safe to say aliens haven't contacted us because the ones that are described aren't what they're really going to look like.
I don't but it's easy to assume building computers means you're intelligent and that's enough to support my case. If they can't build computers then they're not going be able to visit us, so it's either one way or the other. They build computers and then after 200 years they've changed their bodies or they don't build computers and they never visit us.
I would't go that far since koalas, possums and pandas do as well.
I'm not sure what your definition of hard evidence is because if there was anything to it, scientists wouldn't be debunking it.
I agree completely apart from the fact there already are claims of contact from beings that are simply projections of what we think we are going to become - very anthropomorphic.
It changes alien descriptions of greys reptilians and pleiadians as irrational.
Originally posted by GeeGee
Just to be clear, I don't believe in greys. There is no hard evidence for alien visitors (but there is a decent amount of evidence for UFOs, some of which might possibly be extraterrestrial in nature), but I did have to point out the flaw in your argument.
Project Mogul was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949. The project was moderately successful, but was very expensive and was superseded by a network of seismic detectors and air sampling for fallout which were cheaper, more reliable, and easier to deploy and operate.
Originally posted by andre18
What flaw i don't see the flaw.....
Here's your argument - aliens crashed here in 47, the government of America kept it a secret. They're flying around the skies abducting people which is the reason for the blurry pictures of flying objects that can't be identified.
3, the pictures of flying objects that can't be identified are flying objects that can't be identified.
Your logic - flying objects that can't be identified = aliens...?????edit on 18-4-2011 by andre18 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by andre18
Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
Yes, but your basing your facts on current scientific knowlege. In the fourties a scientist made calculations on what it would take to get to the moon with full equations and everything. The answer that he came up with was it was impossible because it would take so much fuel that the rocket would'nt get off the ground. Yet come the sixties what did we do.
The aliens could be millions of years ahead using technology very far ahead of us but it doesn't matter how for a head they they might be, millions, billions it does't matter. Any aliens 2-300 years ahead of us are already going to something beyond biology so you can be sure when we do meet aliens in the future they're not going to be the greys or anything like us. That is why i think it's safe to say aliens haven't contacted us because the ones that are described aren't what they're really going to look like.
Let's consider our own future evolution. To begin with we're going start putting chips in our brains and stuff like that but forget all that, that's not really interesting what i think is interesting is is not the cybernetic enhancements but it's the fact that if you develop thinking machines as opposed to cybernetic enhancements for us then you've done something truly different - the point is the speed of improvement.
It should be obvious to you that if you can invent thinking machines, then they evolve very quickly. Not only because the fact of Moore's law, but also because they're not stuck with darwinian evolution, they could have lamarckian evolution.
If you have thinking machines then you have all sorts of advantages that in most cases trump what you can do with biology. Now the real argument is the time scale argument. The people in the AI community have been saying they're going to make a true thinking machine within 10 years, they've been saying that at least for 30 years....
Now let's say they don't do it an the next 10 years, they don't do it in the next 20 years. Suppose it takes until the end of the century or even the end of the next century - it doesn't matter. The point is you invent radio and within a century or two or three you invent your successor. That's a very shot period of time and that's why i think you can forget that ET's going to be some sort of biological entity, like a little grey guy with big eyes...they'll be machines.edit on 18-4-2011 by andre18 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sam_inc
i feel sorry for the 21 people who flag this thread