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There's more than enough species on earth to explore. Doubt aliens would be as cool as ET anyways.
Out of interest, what would your criteria for "being culled" be?Originally Posted by OmegaFenix
It matter in the prediction of life out there, not if there actually is anything.
We can only estimate the odds of alien life existing, as a fraction of 1, with 0 being no alien life and 1 meaning that alien life does exist. We all know that the truth is either 0 or 1, but we can't say for certain which it is yet.. so we estimate. One of the factors in the estimation is the number of planets in existence, which then changes our current estimate, pushing it slightly towards the 1 side of the scale.
I would be the WORST person to make up the criteria for that. Also it is illegal, a fact which will never change And nobody should have that on their shoulders. I am rather for nature taking its course.
I think the question of extraterrestrial life is a classic schrodinger's cat Paradox. Since we can't prove or disprove that life exist, there for extraterrestrial life both exist and don't exist at the same time.
Sure other intelligent life is a possibility, but the human race will be long gone by the time any of it crosses our path.
Forget space exploration: donate your money to the SPCA.
That's exactly why we work with the statistical nature of the matter, rather with black and white terminology. For now it'll have to do, until we have proof one way or the other, exactly Shrodinger's cat, like you said.
Like I said with odds that big , how can there not be
Re read my post , the math speaks for it self . BTW we have found fossilized microbes out there which technically is other life
Originally posted by Tpex (2009 game review) having a knife fight in a phone booth
I doubt that if aliens travel thousands of lightyears to get to earth, that it would be to say hello. They would:
1. Be here to let us know they are what people believe to be "God", and they created us or changed our DNA to become more like them (in their image).
2. to annihilate us because their planet is also fragile, like ours, and has reached end of life.
I hope that 1 happens...
Last edited by TBlaar; 13-01-2012 at 12:28 PM.
I tend to lean towards the second option. Ever considered the reason we haven't picked up any other signals is that nobody signals their location in a forest full of wolves? Yet humanity has bean broadcasting our presence for decades, hence my comments of rather being the Spanish than the native americans in this story.
Best we can hope for.... whichever species first comes/ has come to investigate this noisy little blue marble has something akin to the Federation's Prime Directive "The Prime Directive dictates that there can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations."/ "No identification of self or mission. No interference with the social development of said planet. No references to space or the fact that there are other worlds or civilizations."
Yes! And maybe they do, but in different types of signals that we cannot comprehend.
People seem to always think that aliens will be humanoid, also carbon based and cannot live on other planets due to not having air... That is earth people, the possibilities of what other creatures may be like, look like or be made of is limitless. We may just encounter creatures who are not creatures at all, and don't travel like we do.
Have you heard about or seen the Mexican jellyfish-like biological ufo/alien sightings? Check this out... just made me think differently on what could be out there:
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