[Screwston]

This is a couple of years old but still cool. I wonder if the aliens could get stoned

Quote:

Hawking said it is likely that alien life exists, but a visit from extraterrestrials might be similar to Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas.

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

In the new program, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking," he speculated that aliens' capabilities "would be only limited by how much power they could harness and control, and that could be far more than we might first imagine."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/s...d=10478157

[Hades]

alien notch potential
the flag is worth the risk

[dk902]

Good article.

I almost spat out my coffee when I read this bit:

Quote:

"This is all complete specuation," he said. "[Hawking's] point is very much one-sided. There's an equal chance of meeting a friendly race, like our own."

Yeah because humans have proved to be real friendly right!

[EisenBarde]

If the Columbus analogy proves true, the introduction of otherworldly disease that we have zero immunity to would probably wipe most of us out, at which point the newcomers would say "Look, they aren't even using this place, let's build the summer resort here."

[InternationPlayboy]

The odds of running into an alien race seem pretty slim though considering the size of the universe. But it's hard to say, who knows what kind of technology they may have?

[Lucky]

(03-29-2013 12:01 PM)EisenBarde Wrote:  

If the Columbus analogy proves true, the introduction of otherworldly disease that we have zero immunity to would probably wipe most of us out, at which point the newcomers would say "Look, they aren't even using this place, let's build the summer resort here."

This reminds me of War of the Worlds.

Maybe our viruses or bacteria would wipe them out first.

We could give them smallpox blankets or something.

[guerrilla]

(03-29-2013 05:33 AM)Hades Wrote:  

alien notch potential
the flag is worth the risk

would be so hot!

[InternationPlayboy]

(03-29-2013 03:35 PM)guerrilla Wrote:  

(03-29-2013 05:33 AM)Hades Wrote:  

alien notch potential
the flag is worth the risk

would be so hot!

2/10, would not bang

   

[guerrilla]

nah, alien chicks look like this:

[blackglasses]

I want to impregnate and alien baby to create a hybrid offspring. Mmmhmmm I'm just dying to feel my dick inside of whatever orifice an alien female would have that is analogous to a vagina

[that guy]

(03-29-2013 06:34 AM)dk902 Wrote:  

Good article.

I almost spat out my coffee when I read this bit:

Quote:

"This is all complete specuation," he said. "[Hawking's] point is very much one-sided. There's an equal chance of meeting a friendly race, like our own."

Yeah because humans have proved to be real friendly right!

And because if there is only two possible outcomes, the chances have to be 50/50 right?

[FretDancer]

(03-29-2013 02:24 PM)InternationPlayboy Wrote:  

The odds of running into an alien race seem pretty slim though considering the size of the universe. But it's hard to say, who knows what kind of technology they may have?

This is also a paradoxical statement.

[kbell]

Would you still bang a equivelent 10 alien female, if having sex involved changes to you? Such as losing your dick, gaining a vagina, man boobs, a beard and antenna? You might even become a protected class too.

[tenderman100]

Alien races --even if there are any out there within communication distance (more on that in a second) -- would never be interested in coming here. There are likely so many other interesting places to exploit nearer to them that there is no incentive to come HERE.

But I think that, frankly, in this part of the galaxy, we are IT. That is IT in terms of an intelligent life form that has a reasonable understanding of physics, chemistry, and astronomy.

Really, think about it. We didn't begin to understand the universe until the last 75 years or so. That we do understand it is a amazing happy accident of culture and civilizational development. A change here, or there, and we could still be riding horses, even with our big brains.

And then there's the peculiar nature of the earth as a planet. The right size, within the habitable zone. With larger planets further out that deflect most of the objects that would crash into our planet and cause mass extinctions. Which has happened a couple of times, and could happen again. If it's happened here it's happened on other planets.

And then we have the earth's magnetic field, with just the right configuration to shield us from the most devastating solar radiation, so we can be warm without our DNA getting disrupted.

And the we have the age of the universe itself. The universe, we need to know, is YOUNG. 15 billion years is nothing. Remember, the matter in the universe was at first hydrogen and helium. In order to get the heavy elements needed to create US, stars had to form, then had to burn for a long time, and then explode and create the heavy elements. Heavy elements in the universe are a recent phenomenon, cosmologically speaking.

And then you have the distances. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. It's size is beyond imagining. (Forget about communicating with or traveling to other galaxies). There may be some earthlike planet 40,000 light years from us and it just so happens it HAD developed conscious life with an understanding of physics and math -- but we'll never ever talk to them. Ever. Too far away, And by the time we or they do figure out how to communicate or travel there, we've killed ourselves off, or some asteroid has hit us and wiped us out. We're gone. Or they're gone.

Oh well. Boo fuckin' hoo.

This is it. We are it. Hawking better start worrying more about who will wipe his ass tomorrow.

[guerrilla]

yeah, but that's only this dimension, which is infinite.

there are other dimensions.

perhaps a more intelligent lifeform was able to figure out how to leap through different dimensions.

so that the aliens we meet would not just be from a different galaxy but from a different dimension too.

anyway, if aliens dont wipe us out, an asteroid or something else might like with the dinosaurs. only the cockroaches will survive again.

[Aliblahba]

(03-29-2013 05:33 AM)Hades Wrote:  

alien notch potential
the flag is worth the risk

Everyone that claims to been abducted mentions anal probes. I don't want my alien flag.

[Matt3B]

1 reply before sex was brought up on something that contained nothing sexual. Must be a new record.

[bojangles]

everyone wants 3 tits on Mars

[MidniteSpecial]

Stephen hawking is an alien.

[le prince perdu]

nah Steven Hawking doesn't sound legit on this point, his argument doesn't make sense to me here is why:

If aliens do come to earth that would mean that they have been able to develop the technology to travel through space.
In order to acquire that technology they must have had a long time to really understand how the universe works, the law of physics, aerodynamics, biology, and many more aspects of knowledge we do not even have yet.

As you can see the longer we exist the more we know, the more we learn.
Today if we discover some sort of hidden island the last thing we will probably do would be to slaughter the people living there, we know better.

Columbus lived in an age of ignorance when people believed that native Americans where not humans, he didn't know about the universe, he believed in creationism, he didn't know that all humans are equal and all the shit we know today.

It took the guy years to travel from one continent to another, he didn't know about long distance communication, computers, video games etc..

Basically if Columbus lived today it would be consider beyond ignorant compare to us and nobody on this forum would want to have a conversation with guy, there is just too much shit he doesn't know.

You can see the ridiculous gap of knowledge between the humans of today and the humans of 500 years ago and we still don't know how to travel at the space level.

We are a very young form of intelligence compare to the age of the universe, the different sort of aliens out there that are already able to travel through space are a way older older compare to us.

Comparing them to what Columbus did would be like looking at a baby shitting in his pants and expecting a grown ass man to do the same.

I believe they are many sorts of aliens out there; some are more advanced than us and some are not.

the ones who can travel through space probably wouldn't want to do anything with us as long as the average human being is still extremely ignorant.

[MidniteSpecial]

They travel with their minds. You can do it too if you practice. Highly recommend this video for anyone interested in aliens.

http://vimeo.com/m/60989552

[MidniteSpecial]

Check this one as well.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=01lRLYuht2A...1lRLYuht2A