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The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Doesn’t the very fact that these ET beings haven’t yet contacted us, or replied to our frantic messages, say they are intelligent? What more do you want?
And, oh, meanwhile, why is that all of alien imagery is based on a human form? Or a human-understandable form? What makes you think that aliens aren’t already here – as viruses or as something even deadlier – chocolate?
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July 5th, 2007 - 19:53
Okay, you force a comment
> Doesn’t the very fact that these ET beings haven’t yet contacted us, or replied to our frantic messages, say they are intelligent?
That question already assumes that such beings exist, something we don’t have proof for yet. The search is to get that proof. Further, aliens don’t have to respond or get in touch with us.. it’d be enough if we just pick up some stray signal (electromagnetic or otherwise) that their civilization has put out.
> Or a human-understandable form?
If we can’t comprehend it, how can we render it
> What makes you think that aliens aren’t already here – as viruses or as something even deadlier – chocolate?
If you ever get serious about this, just look up some definitions for life. I especially like the one that says that a life-form is something that executes one thermodynamic cycle (or something like that, IIRC).. chocolate wouldn’t satisfy that requirement
As for virus, it is possible that we all are of alien origin. Still, science demands proof.
July 5th, 2007 - 22:22
Sel Am: looks like you found your alien!
July 8th, 2007 - 03:06
dosent caring about aliens show that we have run out of things to think about on this earth
July 8th, 2007 - 08:12
>And, oh, meanwhile, why is that all of alien >imagery is based on a human form?
Most popular alien imagery is based on a human form – by popular I mean mainstream stuff like scifi movies and comics – probably so that people can relate to them (and hence buy them). Of course genre sf features a lot of variety in alien lifeforms not confined to humanoids – even those reflect certain characteristics we are familiar with in humans or other terrestrial lifeforms. Describing a “really” alien being would imply that you’ve met it, wouldn’t it
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July 8th, 2007 - 10:04
Check this out
http://www.ufoevidence.org/welcome.asp