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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 8, 2019 at 12:23 pm
On balance, I think that people who spend a lot of time thinking about alien visitations to Earth should probably think about thinking about something else.
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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 11, 2019 at 7:36 pm
I imagine that other life exists, has existed, and will continue to appear throughout the universe much like we did. However, the chances of us ever finding this out is negligible, nor have any aliens visited earth, because trust me, nobody with higher thought and the choice would be that stupid, let alone any technological issues.
The universe is simply too large for us to be the only thing alive. All it takes is one out of every hundred thousand stars, and suddenly you've got a whole lot of planets with life around.
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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 11, 2019 at 8:19 pm
I have a hard time believing that in an area as vast as space that there isn't some other sort of life form. I do think it egocentric to assume they are human-like. Whatever the creatures are that may reside in space, they have not come into being under the same conditions as we have therefore would take a different form.
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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 11, 2019 at 8:37 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 8:19 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have a hard time believing that in an area as vast as space that there isn't some other sort of life form. I do think it egocentric to assume they are human-like. Whatever the creatures are that may reside in space, they have not come into being under the same conditions as we have therefore would take a different form.
Star Wars and Star Trek aren't documentaries.
It'd be interesting to see how life evolves differently on different planets. I'd imagine there would be similarities between Earth life and Xeno lifeforms though, at least to some degree.
(Hell, if i can't get real dinosaurs, get me some alien dinosaurs!)
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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 13, 2019 at 5:47 pm
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RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 13, 2019 at 6:45 pm
I can easily imagine a clutch of Vlturggs, splashing round their silvery lakes of mercury, admiring the gentle drift of the methane clouds...
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