Thats why when people say there is no such thing as aliens.. I give them a weird look. The universe is an insanely huge fucking place.

I will never figure out the universe.

Very informative! :thumbsup

Current estimate of the number of particles existing in the universe:
Somewhere between 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000 (or 10^72) and 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000 (or 10^87).

Still, that does not mean that chances of random stuff existing are big in any way. On the contrary, they're almost infinitely small. (basic math: the number of theoretically possible combinations of particles is insanely big, while the number of practically possible combinations is far smaller)

Always look on the bright side of life!

boy.. threads like this make me miss using :/

http://users.pandora.be/aldatillian/...-wormhole1.jpg

:thumbsup

heheh.. made funnier by the fact it's a pisstake.

If I was an alien I would give earth a big miss! :glugglug

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I agree. The only question is are they as advanced, more advanced or less advanced then us?

if we could travel at the spped of light and had a good enough telescope we could actually fly a huge distance away from earth and watch what happened in the past, now that would be cool

Now that's an idea!

no you can't

Bitch.

I met a guy once who was a real genius. Worked for NASA had an IQ of 184 as I recall. He was saying that the possibility of finding life on other planets was remote. At the time we (and by we I mean all of us) had never found another planet outside of our solar system. As someone already mentioned it wasn't until just a few years ago that we found just 1.

His theory was based on the fact that the galaxy as well as the universe is constantly expanding and chances are that any culture that would be advanced enough to make the trip would have died out millions of years ago. We're on the very outer edge of our galaxy and that means more than likely anything significant has already happened.

Not to say that there isn't other life out there but if they are, they're probably living at the same or similar level of advancement that we are. And, if some another culture happened to be more advanced and mastered space travel and could make it to earth from billions and billions of miles of away they would have to so much more advanced than us that we would be nothing more to them then the way we think of caveman.

Is it possible that aliens have landed, that area 51 really contains or contained a crashed alien ship? Sure. But to think that we would even be able to understand it just isn't possible. It would be like going back in time and dropping of a microwave oven when were still apes. There just wouldn't be any frame of reference for us to use it or compare it to. We could reverse engineer it all day long but there's just no way to know what the parts do. We'd be the caveman looking at the microwave wondering what it does. With no concept of electricity, power, microchips, computers, wires, plugs and glass it would just be a shiny pretty box.

So if any culture happened one day to show up here, it would be more than likely it wasn?t to give us advanced technology. It would probably be more like that Twilight Zone episode ?To Serve Man?. Where we?d all think they were doing us favor when in reality to serve man wasn?t their mission statement, it was a cookbook.


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You have been watching too much star trek... turn off the tv and start to work!..:1orglaugh

Samuel

So all those Nobel prize winning physicists that worked at Los Alamos were tipped off by aliens?

So John Bardeen et al didn't invent the transistor but were actually given an explanation of alien technology that they kept secret and they just went through the motions of discovery?

Where in the many years of attempting to invent the laser did Mr. Gould learn of the alien's "red beam"?

and if you really want to blow your mind, you have to ask........what "space" is the universe "expanding" into?

its infinity but the human mind cannot comprehend this, or even begin to grasp it.

They're here, they've been here and the US Government has been cooperating with them on biogenetics experiments for decades in exchange for their advanced technology.

Some can.

its somewhat scary when you think about it, the universe is there but how it got there or why it even has to exist is something that we will never know. Something created all this and something had to create that. I wish i could go in more detail but id just give myself a big headache just thinking of how to say it :(

I think you're an alien.

I got drunk last night, my head hurts and this is just too much for my state of mind :glugglug

you can´t realize how big the universe is cause humans mind cannot understand the infinity, and if the universe isn´t endless, there is still something like nothingness, and even 'nothing' is 'something' like in the beginning of the whole universe, from 'nothing' have growth 'something', and if there was 'something' from which the other things has rised, from what have arised the 'something' i ask...? :1orglaugh

Cool thread,

Here are some interesting stories.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom..._021226-1.html

http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/

And what of the discoveries of non-US scientists?