Keep Life in perspective...

[mertol22]

The worlds primary industry is  warfare we have demonstrated with flair an inability to live together in peace , how much more time do we need?, been talking about aliens with a friend today and david icke came up oh no dont get me there!!

[bob]

Did you win that one Keira?Wheres he gone?To set up another thread to vote us off the forum?

What?

[bob]

Isn't it time you stopped fantasising?

Mmm... care to go head-to-head on a couple of fantasy General Relativity questions?
Fully up to speed on your tensor calculus are you?

[bob]

This topic has some mileage, i do not believe life evolved here the human race is too violent and greed is a benchmark of our race why would aliens come here , what do we have to offer? i do believe some races may have entered our solar system from a safe distance saw and carried on.

It was indeed an interesting thread Mertol, until Keira hijacked it for the purposes of personal abuse.

Now I understand what Hartley feels like 

[bob]

He was asked once if he could explain some of his theories in plain English. He thought for a moment and replied that he could not.

Hardly surprising. I tried to explain the basic concept of curved space to you earlier in very simple terms and you still maintained it was beyond comprehension. Einstein's theories are more complicated than my simple explanation, so it is no wonder that he would struggle to explain them in "plain English" - not least because it wasn't his first language. That does nothing, however, to undermine their validity.

[Roch]

Sorry - only just spotted this thread...

No - I don't think we are alone.

But... beyond our solar system, the distances to other likely inhabited planets are too large for us to ever have any chance of breaching, so whilst I am very confident that Earth isn't the only place in the universe to harbour intelligent life, I'm equally confident that we'll never encounter any other intelligent life forms - well, not in our lifetimes.

That's not to say we won't find some less advanced life forms in the local neighbourhood - there could well be microbial life buried on Mars, and there could certainly be all manner of life under the frozen surface of the waters of Europa - if you think of the organisms that live near the undersea volcanic vents on Earth, those kind of things could have evolved on Europa.

Thanks for the response and it's well thought out.  It makes sense.  I was only kidding about the cavemen killing off the dinosaurs last night.  I do not believe that even a tightnit team of experienced cavemen, with good communication and organisational skills, could bring down an Tyrannosaur. I think they would have avoided beasts of that size.

[grahameb]

Thanks for the response and it's well thought out.  It makes sense.  I was only kidding about the cavemen killing off the dinosaurs last night.  I do not believe that even a tightnit team of experienced cavemen, with good communication and organisational skills, could bring down an Tyrannosaur. I think they would have avoided beasts of that size.

So no bronosaurus steaks then?

[Roch]

So no bronosaurus steaks then?

Cant see it my self.  But their lumbering nature may have given the cavemen a decent shot at formulating a plan.

[grahameb]

Cant see it my self.  But their lumbering nature may have given the cavemen a decent shot at formulating a plan.

Like...erm......throwing banana skins in their path?

[Roch]

Yeah just kidding of course.  Cryptozoology is interesting though.

[grahameb]

Yeah just kidding of course.  Cryptozoology is interesting though.

Rochy. You don't need to tell us you're kidding all the time. We know you're kidding. You were 4 sheets to the wind last night. and I got too pompous and had to delete one of my posts before everyone dropped dead from boredom.

[Reader]

I do not believe life evolved here . . . I do believe some races may have entered our solar system from a safe distance saw and carried on.

Races of what? A safe distance for them or for life on earth? Omitting detail and using "not" and "may" in this type of statement produces, at best, vague useless guesses.

[Roch]

Rochy. You don't need to tell us you're kidding all the time. We know you're kidding. You were 4 sheets to the wind last night. and I got too pompous and had to delete one of my posts before everyone dropped dead from boredom.

I've deleted about three of mine.  Total garbage 

[grahameb]

Races of what? A safe distance for them or for life on earth? Omitting detail and using "not" and "may" in this type of statement produces, at best, vague useless guesses.

Yes reader......

[grahameb]

Alien: "I want your clothes. Your boots. And your unicycle".