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Ummm....kinda reminds me of that Stephen King book, "Under The Dome" It's not a nice thought if you consider that we could exist.....in the bell jar.
Originally posted by timetothink
How about just for fun?
We could be a big toy to them....if they are as sick as humanity, just imagine the fun they could have?
Originally posted by whatsup86
Originally posted by Hefficide
Well I have always wondered why aliens would possibly want to visit Earth in the first place. I suppose that dirty pictures and pirated music make more sense than water or gold.
~Heff
This just prooves that the avarage person doesnt even come close to comprehend how advanced any alien civilisation must be compared to us. Projecting human needs on aliens just to try to get a grip is so narrow minded.
The universe is roughly 13,700,000,000 years old (what is behind the universe, what was there before the big bang), our civilisation is maybe 40,000 years old. The estimation is that there are millions of galaxies with millions of planets, adding up to trillions of planets in total and we're just one of those planets. (I heard there are more planets than grains of sand on our planet.
If you can comprehend those figures, which noone really can, you understand that there might be a few 1000 civilisations or even more and a part of those can be a 1000 times smarter then us. And compared to aliens the chances are huge they are 1000s of times smarter and more advanced than us, so they've probably developed different needs and interests as well. We simply can not even come close to know what their interests really are; even the idea that they have the same dimensions and thinking patterns is just rather foolish.
But if you really want to think that way; then why are we investigating regular animals, not even that; we've spent millions of dollars investigating just regular animals. Imagine what we would be doing if we discovered an alien civilisation.
Originally posted by NJoyZ
reply to post by Hefficide
Dude, Gold makes plenty of sense. We've done all the hard work mining and refining it. It never falls apart, rusts, or decays, its perfect for space fairing electronics. That's why we use it in our space fairing electronics. But if you need to build a freaking aircraft carrier for interstellar travel, you're gonna need a lot more gold than a satellite would have. If your going to build a fleet of massive spaceships your going to need LOTS of gold.
Originally posted by caladonea
reply to post by NJoyZ
Beings from other planets very well could be hacking and listening in on us etc. and/or posing as a human and getting information that way...
However; I just have to wonder...why would they want to?
A very good place to start is here (www.webelements.com...). This graph shows the abundance of all of the elements in the universe by mass... note that the vertical axis is in orders of magnitude. As you can see, gold (like most heavy elements) is not that common in the 'verse: only about 0.6 grams for every billion grams of stuff (www.webelements.com...). I am assuming (possibly incorrectly) that these figures do take dark matter into account. The data also says that, across the universe, you'll only find one gold atom out of 250 billion atoms. Not a good way to make a quick buck.
To inject a factoid in this discussion, I heard a Jeopardy question a few weeks ago that asserted that all the gold ever mined from the Earth would make a cube 50 feet by 50 feet by 50 feet. Hijack territory but what the heck........The figure I've always seen quoted is 60' x 60' x 60'. I've spent some time studying gold. I've seen this in every piece of information I've gotten (broker's reports, mining reports, I think even a US Treasury report too), but annoyingly can't find them.
I read was that if we mined the ocean floor, we could get enough gold to give every person on Earth 6 pounds of the stuff. I believe that came from Time Magazine.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by NJoyZ
reply to post by Hefficide
Dude, Gold makes plenty of sense. We've done all the hard work mining and refining it. It never falls apart, rusts, or decays, its perfect for space fairing electronics. That's why we use it in our space fairing electronics. But if you need to build a freaking aircraft carrier for interstellar travel, you're gonna need a lot more gold than a satellite would have. If your going to build a fleet of massive spaceships your going to need LOTS of gold.
You will get far more gold off some passing asteroid than you will from earth.
Space gold!
Space is littered with resources..so much it makes our puny monkeybrains spin..and that's just in our neighborhood. Refining gold is also incredibly easy (you can refine gold in your garage with household items)
they could seriously be affecting peoples thoughts and perceptions with uploaded content into our informational infrastructure.
Originally posted by NJoyZ
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by NJoyZ
reply to post by Hefficide
Dude, Gold makes plenty of sense. We've done all the hard work mining and refining it. It never falls apart, rusts, or decays, its perfect for space fairing electronics. That's why we use it in our space fairing electronics. But if you need to build a freaking aircraft carrier for interstellar travel, you're gonna need a lot more gold than a satellite would have. If your going to build a fleet of massive spaceships your going to need LOTS of gold.
You will get far more gold off some passing asteroid than you will from earth.
Space gold!
Space is littered with resources..so much it makes our puny monkeybrains spin..and that's just in our neighborhood. Refining gold is also incredibly easy (you can refine gold in your garage with household items)
I agree, but does is it harder to mine an asteroid your self, or harder to have some other race of suckers do it for you? Now I do not in any way mean to associate African American slaves with suckers, they are not, they're very intelligent; but when there were slaves in America, it was because it was easier to have someone else do the digging and farming and the cotton picking. And "the best kind of slaves, are the ones who don't know that they are enslaved.". So, we mine the asteroid, and get say 5-20% so that our worldly goods reflect that, then we give the rest to the aliens so that they don't kill us and eat us --we are meat after all .
Originally posted by NJoyZ
There could easily be ET's hovering above our planet posting videos on youtubeedit on 29-1-2013 by NJoyZ because: (no reason given)edit on 29-1-2013 by NJoyZ because: (no reason given)edit on 1/29/2013 by tothetenthpower because: --Mod Edit--ALL CAPS--don't use them