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Originally posted by mclinking
I reckon we ARE extra-terrestrials.
We managed to escape from Mars before it finished the way it is today.
Now, NASA is thinking of trying to get back there which seems damn stupid as there's a strong possibility of a comet impact on October 19 2014!
There is no missing link. Civilisations rise and fall. As for aliens, tell me WHO discovered the longest line of latitude, the longest line of longitude and then founded a country where the two intersect? We all know, but how many thousands of years ago did that happen?
This planet is plastered with aliens.
Both dark energy and dark matter exist, they are not theories
Originally posted by winofiend
If a pea is lost out at sea, floating on the high waves and crashing down into the never ending turbulence, do you think you could find it, if you had no idea where to look?
If not, why? You're a highly intelligent creature, far more intelligent than any pea?
If that pea is never found, does this mean that you do not exist?
Can you exist, and never find that pea?
We're that pea.
Originally posted by 3n19m470
Originally posted by winofiend
If a pea is lost out at sea, floating on the high waves and crashing down into the never ending turbulence, do you think you could find it, if you had no idea where to look?
If not, why? You're a highly intelligent creature, far more intelligent than any pea?
If that pea is never found, does this mean that you do not exist?
Can you exist, and never find that pea?
We're that pea.
I'm kinda... I dunno... Embarrassed for you, that your imagination cannot conceive of such things...
Originally posted by neoholographic
Should this be a surprise? He didn't say it's possible. He didn't say maybe. He said definitely.
He said this on The Definitive Guide to Aliens. A new show that came on the Science Channel. Most of the Scientist in the show were talking as though extraterrestrials are a forgone conclusion.
This goes back to what I said before. Humans always weigh the available evidence then reach a conclusion. We do it in all walks of life.
It's just with areas that clash with people's belief system are we supposed to tip toe around obvious evidence because we need "extraordinary evidence."
I have reached the conclusion that extraterrestrials exist based on the available evidence. I have also reached the conclusion of visitation based on the available evidence.
I think they're a few reasons keep people from seeing the obvious based on evidence.
1. A belief system. Whether religious or atheist in nature. I actually think some in religion are actually more accepting of these things than atheist and skeptics.
In my talks with religious folks, many of them don't see a problem with the existence of extraterrestrials. When I debate atheist and skeptics they're the ones that seem scared to death of their existence. I think it's because the next natural question will be, did these advanced civilizations start some of the worlds religions. Then we have to look at things like the Bible in the context of advanced technology and not supernatural miracles.
2. I think the Bible and other text are full of Extraterrestrial Visitations and things like missing time. Like I said, if the Bible and other text is looked at from the standpoint of supernatural miracles then people can try to debate the supernatural. If it's seen in the context of advanced technology then the miracles are very easy to explain.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3.Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
3. The egocentric view of life is disturbing to me. Basically life in the universe has to be started like life on earth. First, there's more evidence for Panspermia than there is for Abiogenesis and secondly there's no evidence that life on earth has some special ingredient that can't be duplicated anywhere else in the universe.
It was a good show and I'm looking forward to the next episode. Again, we don't need any special or extraordinary evidence, just evidence and there's plenty to support the conclusion that extraterrestrials exist.
edit on 20-3-2013 by neoholographic because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neoholographic
It's just with areas that clash with people's belief system are we supposed to tip toe around obvious evidence because we need "extraordinary evidence."
Originally posted by ImpactoR
reply to post by Wolfenz
That's one very good example why one should not exclude the possibility people in the past to have encountered technologically advanced civilization which clearly is not that of humans on the surface. Which is why people laugh at Ancient Aliens and disrespect the whole idea only because they found inaccuracies in one's claims but this is again part of their pseudoscientific approach to exclude something that isn't 100% clear and accurate.
The possibilities are two:
- A civilization, an alien one has come from outer space and flied through the Earth like these did when visiting the islands.
- The part saying - there is a civilization of beings living underground, thus the stories of UFOs in trenches, at the poles, caves. This civilization to be from Earth or to have settled to Earth millions of years ago and around their trips on the Earth surface, to be the reason for this encounters.
- Both - beings living underground and some visiting from outer space. thus the Heavens (i.e beyond the Earth) and Hell (those living underground in caves deep below)
I do not think this is far fetched, people need to start exploring the caves and those deep places underground more than exploring space. Because if such civilization is found to exist and hide, there will be the technology that humans need to do something more progressive in outer space.