If extraterrestrials landed...
- Thread starter ClichéGuevara
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Humanity has a sad habit of over extending itself repeatedly. We are so smart and stupid at so many levels it is a wonder we have got this far. As we know the planet is 4.5 billion years old it is conceivable we have gotten this far before and ballsed it up.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'd want to know what music they listened to.
One of my favourite sci-fi movies is Close Encounters... they came, they jammed, they left
One of my favourite sci-fi movies is Close Encounters... they came, they jammed, they left
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'd steer clear of the buggers.
I've seen Mars Attacks.
Although the only way for extraterrestrials to arrive that's not science fiction would likely be microbial blobs in meteorites, like those Martian fossils in the 90s that turned out not to be fossils at all.
I've seen Mars Attacks.
Although the only way for extraterrestrials to arrive that's not science fiction would likely be microbial blobs in meteorites, like those Martian fossils in the 90s that turned out not to be fossils at all.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Why the only way? We as a civilisation now would seem alien to civilisation say three thousand years ago so what's to say life in other dimensions or in different parts of the universe haven't developed civilisations this advanced or beyond what we can imagine?
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Since we're taking this seriously...
If other alien civilisations have evolved, the chances of them evolving in the same several-hundred-thousand-year slot as any other alien civilisation are so staggeringly remote that I don't think a meeting is ever likely to happen. What's more likely is one evolves and becomes extinct, then a hundred-millennia later, another evolves and becomes extinct, then there's us lot, and a few hundred millennia after we're long gone, another will turn up and die off and on it goes.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Ah, but allowing for Drake's Equation it becomes more likely that multiple lifeforms exist simultaneously in the endless expanse of our universe alone. Then add to that the multiverse theory and mathematics prove this beyond mere theory we would not be unique or the only one.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I don't believe in the multiverse
OP
OP
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
I don't believe in the multiverse
Here's evidence for it.
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
Spike Milligan
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Wether you believe in it or not, mathematics suggests it does exist.I don't believe in the multiverse
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I don't believe in mathematics either
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
That may prove problematic in that case. 😁I don't believe in mathematics either
OP
OP
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
I don't believe in mathematics either
I recall an interesting article on life without mathematics as we know it. It made the point by describing various daily events, such as the 'calculations' we make when braking etc.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Just re-read War of the Worlds. I am heading for the underground with my sleeping bag, some books and a cricket bat.
