Extra-Terrestrial Life

Do you believe extraterrestrial life exists?

  • yes

    Votes: 19 86.4%
  • no

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Total voters
    22

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Colin, all things considered, you are probably right.

Ha Ha but wait there's more ;)

One way we could communicate with beings millions of light years away would be to use “Instantaneous transportation of matter” but that is of course a thing yet to be made possible in the meantime a little more work on the famous “Twin particle experiment” could yield quicker results.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Br. Colin,

"Instantaneous Transportation Of Matter"...Do I smell an oxymoron here?:grin::grin::grin:
 

teddy

Duckmeister
A lot of it depends on whether we are working on normal rules, as we know them. Everything must have a begining and an end. Or must it. Does the universe go on for ever without end. Is there nothing outside the universe as we know it. Our rules say that these things are not possible but these are only rules as we can comprhend them. The answer is out there. But where?

teddy
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
A lot of it depends on whether we are working on normal rules, as we know them. Everything must have a begining and an end. Or must it. Does the universe go on for ever without end. Is there nothing outside the universe as we know it. Our rules say that these things are not possible but these are only rules as we can comprhend them. The answer is out there. But where?

teddy

Aye, but there's the rub, Teddy. Who exactly is defining the term "normal"? :scold: Is it "them" or us? :confused: :rolleyes:
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Br. Colin,

"Instantaneous Transportation Of Matter"...Do I smell an oxymoron here?:grin::grin::grin:

spaceeba, CD Don,t spoil my fun :grin::grin:

on the other hand as I had just dropped one it could be that which your snoz detects
 
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teddy

Duckmeister
We can only interpret rules as we understand them. While we can let our imagination run wild there is no guarantee that the things we imagine will have any substance in fact. If we look at the advancement in technology, could any of our ancestors from a hundred years ago have imagined some of the things that exist today. Its is true that some very intelligent and far sighted individuals have always existed, but the average person from a hundred years ago could not have imagined the technology behind space travel or computer controlled brain surgery. We imagine aliens based on what we understand about science, but what else exists, maybe so far beyond our imagination that we would find it incomprehensible.

teddy.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Quite right teddy even today some don't know how to use a VCR and some have difficulty posting a pic of themselves :whistle:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
OK OK I will post my picture. may even do it here. Might be appropriate

teddy (ET)

ET! yes, very clever I never thought of that, but please do use the appropriate thread, keeps thing much more tidy.
You also raise some interesting points which I want to get into with you but have to do my housework first.
 

greatcyber

New member
Consider the immensity of "space" and if one thinks planet Earth is the only planet with life IMHO that would not show an understanding of life and would seem a bit pretentious and narrow-minded. Just my 2 cents.
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Consider the immensity of "space" and if one thinks planet Earth is the only planet with life IMHO that would not show an understanding of life and would seem a bit pretentious and narrow-minded. Just my 2 cents.

Stephen, absolutely spot on!
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief

teddy

Duckmeister
Thanks Colin, very interesting. I will have to re-read it to fully absorb it. I also want to re-visit Einsteins theory. Its been a long time.
As far as the likelihood of other intelligent life. One is there any other life. ? Probably. Two is it intelligent, as we interpret the word. It is no use to us if it existed a billion years ago, as the very planet it was on may no longer exist, let alone any trace of it. One factor which is often ignored is that just because something can happen ( enough monkeys with typewriters may eventually write the works of Shakespeare) does not mean it actually will. The laws of possibility and probability are similar but do not guarantee anything.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
teddy, thanks for taking the time to have a look it is quite a long article but I found it fascinating, maybe not the normal fare for some of our posters but who knows?
if you click on home it provides a wealth of other info, best for long winter nights eh, I copy and paste these articles to be read at my inclination and in a larger text,
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Chasma Boreale, Mars


Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or 1,400 meters, above the floor. Where the edge of the ice cap has retreated, sheets of sand are emerging that accumulated during earlier ice-free climatic cycles. Winds blowing off the ice have pushed loose sand into dunes and driven them down-canyon in a westward direction.

Mars.jpg
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
That is an awesome picture, Colin. It looks like it could have been on earth instead of Mars. Things like this really make me wonder again about the inter-connectedness of all life, both earthly and extra-terrestial. {Yes, I do believe that somewhere in this vast and largely unexplored cosmos of ours other life forms do indeed exist. Whether or not they will ever be "discovered" in my short lifetime is of course a whole different matter.} The devil's always in the details, isn't it?
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I picked it up from the NASA web site they have some terrific pics and I will bet everything I have that we are not the only ones
 
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