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Postby Jordsindia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:08 pm

Legionica wrote:I assume they have some sort of space tutus or zero-gravity parachute pants. Anyway, anyone played Spore on Space Stage?

Lol i did.
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Postby Lucent Dawn » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:08 pm

Legionica wrote:I assume they have some sort of space tutus or zero-gravity parachute pants. Anyway, anyone played Spore on Space Stage?

I have...
I doubt it was a realistic portrayal of the unverse and its species. :p
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Postby Tetraca » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:09 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Jordsindia wrote:So, i was watching this Phil Sneider guy, maybe you've heard of him, and he talks about how he once worked for the government with top secret programs about aliens.

So i decided to see if you guys believe in aliens.

So, do you?
If so, do you think they are friendly?
If so, do you think they are visiting earth?
Are they hostile?
Are their more than one species?
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Are there intelligent beings on other planets? Yeah, very likely. Friendly or hostile is moot because they aren't visiting us. The logistics are too difficult.

There have to be intelligent life forms on other planets, there's bugger all here.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:15 pm

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Farnhamia wrote:Are there intelligent beings on other planets? Yeah, very likely. Friendly or hostile is moot because they aren't visiting us. The logistics are too difficult.

There have to be intelligent life forms on other planets, there's bugger all here.

Okay, you were the first in this thread with that one.
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Postby Amacia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:16 pm

It's possible, but I keep it in speculation, where it belongs.
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Postby Grainne Ni Malley » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:17 pm

Yes, I believe in my alien lab testers. Can I please get out of the maze now?
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Postby Libertarian Mesa » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:19 pm

I do not believe in aliens. Sorry, but I find it unlikely. And it is ridiculous to suggest that we have had visited.

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Postby Galla- » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:19 pm

Wilgrove wrote:I think there is intelligent life out there. Whether or not they visited us is another story. I mean the only thing we'd have to offer them is our art and creativity, nothing else. Compared to them, we're primitive apes.


Doubtful. Humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, or at least comparable to others, judging by the lack of radio transmissions we've received, and lack of alien contact. Besides, even if they do visit us, they may not be more advanced than we are.

Also, it isn't their place to conquer the universe, it is mankind's destiny to spread amongst the stars and assimilate lesser cultures into our own.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:19 pm

Libertarian Mesa wrote:I do not believe in aliens. Sorry, but I find it unlikely. And it is ridiculous to suggest that we have had visited.

You don't think there is life anywhere else but on this one planet?
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Postby Libertarian Mesa » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:20 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Libertarian Mesa wrote:I do not believe in aliens. Sorry, but I find it unlikely. And it is ridiculous to suggest that we have had visited.

You don't think there is life anywhere else but on this one planet?

Probably not.

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:21 pm

Galla- wrote:
Wilgrove wrote:I think there is intelligent life out there. Whether or not they visited us is another story. I mean the only thing we'd have to offer them is our art and creativity, nothing else. Compared to them, we're primitive apes.


Doubtful. Humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, or at least comparable to others, judging by the lack of radio transmissions we've received, and lack of alien contact. Besides, even if they do visit us, they may not be more advanced than we are.

Also, it isn't their place to conquer the universe, it is mankind's destiny to spread amongst the stars and assimilate lesser cultures into our own.

You're about as silly as Wils. Conquer the universe, right. I do agree, though, that an alien civilization doesn't have to be fabulously more advanced than us.
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Postby Jordsindia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:22 pm

Galla- wrote:
Wilgrove wrote:I think there is intelligent life out there. Whether or not they visited us is another story. I mean the only thing we'd have to offer them is our art and creativity, nothing else. Compared to them, we're primitive apes.


Doubtful. Humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, or at least comparable to others, judging by the lack of radio transmissions we've received, and lack of alien contact. Besides, even if they do visit us, they may not be more advanced than we are.

Also, it isn't their place to conquer the universe, it is mankind's destiny to spread amongst the stars and assimilate lesser cultures into our own.

Maybe the aliens are avoiding us because they think we are barbaric cavemen and we dont deserve their attention.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:22 pm

Libertarian Mesa wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:You don't think there is life anywhere else but on this one planet?

Probably not.

In the whole, huge vastness of the universe? Why? That seems an awfully limited view of things.
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Postby Liriena » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:22 pm

I believe the MUST be life in other planets, because it would make no sense that our planet should be the only one with life in the Universe.
I don't believe in flying saucers, though, or any of the other stuff.
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Postby Legionica » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:23 pm

Alright, the Spore thing. I assume that super-intelligent beings contacted natives of Earth in the early stages of civilization. That would explain how early tongues were odd, and why humanity once worshipped the sun, like a ball of light UFO.

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Postby Libertarian Mesa » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:24 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Libertarian Mesa wrote:Probably not.

In the whole, huge vastness of the universe? Why? That seems an awfully limited view of things.

I know you believe in big bang and everything, myself a young earth creationist. It's just hard for me to understand life more advanced than humanity.

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:24 pm

Legionica wrote:Alright, the Spore thing. I assume that super-intelligent beings contacted natives of Earth in the early stages of civilization. That would explain how early tongues were odd, and why humanity once worshipped the sun, like a ball of light UFO.

It doesn't require aliens for people who live outdoors most of the time to think the sun is a divine power. And just how were early tongues "odd"?
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Postby Jordsindia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:26 pm

Legionica wrote:Alright, the Spore thing. I assume that super-intelligent beings contacted natives of Earth in the early stages of civilization. That would explain how early tongues were odd, and why humanity once worshipped the sun, like a ball of light UFO.

Makes sense.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:26 pm

Libertarian Mesa wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:In the whole, huge vastness of the universe? Why? That seems an awfully limited view of things.

I know you believe in big bang and everything, myself a young earth creationist. It's just hard for me to understand life more advanced than humanity.

Okay, well, you're painting yourself into a terribly small corner. Kind of sad, really.
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Postby The Imperium Dominatus » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:26 pm

I think they are avoiding us due to our violent nature (im not a hippie), or are just waiting in the black abyss mobilizing their armies to take over.
either one is probably true.

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:27 pm

The Imperium Dominatus wrote:I think they are avoiding us due to our violent nature (im not a hippie), or are just waiting in the black abyss mobilizing their armies to take over.
either one is probably true.

Why are those the most likely alternatives?
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Postby Legionica » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:27 pm

Mesopotaiman and Sumerian was assumed very odd, like a fusion of Eastern tongues and Klingon.

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Postby Gordonisia » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:28 pm

I definitely believe there is more life outside of Earth, given the fact that we've observed so many other planets that can sustain life.
Do I think we're slowly being infiltrated by anus-probing lizards? No, but it wouldn't surprise me if they've visited us before.
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Postby Lucent Dawn » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:28 pm

Legionica wrote:Mesopotaiman and Sumerian was assumed very odd, like a fusion of Eastern tongues and Klingon.

As "odd" as the click-knash-cluck-like languages of some tribes in Africa?
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Postby Galla- » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:29 pm

Jordsindia wrote:
Galla- wrote:
Doubtful. Humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, or at least comparable to others, judging by the lack of radio transmissions we've received, and lack of alien contact. Besides, even if they do visit us, they may not be more advanced than we are.

Also, it isn't their place to conquer the universe, it is mankind's destiny to spread amongst the stars and assimilate lesser cultures into our own.

Maybe the aliens are avoiding us because they think we are barbaric cavemen and we dont deserve their attention.


Or maybe because the ability of a race to adopt radio technology and live long enough in the cosmic shooting gallery is so low that any chance we have of meeting alien races is either gone and past and they're already dead, or they're so advanced that we are effectively so beneath them that we are but microscopic organisms and they're entirely unawares of our existence, and likewise.

I seriously doubt aliens are some moralistic shit that thinks that Humanity is "primitive" or "backwards" for fighting amongst nations. Likely if any alien close to our technological level to receive or send radio broadcasts, they do the same.

Of course that makes them rubber suits. Any alien is going to be so hilariously far away from us in terms of life and evolution that will be incomparable and incomprehensible to our minds. Their attempts at saying "hello" might cause brain lesions and tumourss within the average human, and hallucinations and psychosis from their mere presence as they attempt to understand us.

If Humanity does conquer the galaxy, it is likely that we'll be split into differing nationstates that will fight amongst each other, such is human nature, and would be the nature of any comparable alien species. The biggest, baddest motherfuckers in terms of intelligence rise to the top of the heap and kill their way to get there.
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