OT: Alien Contact

oleg · #1 February 26th, 2003, 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by Greybeard:
I don't believe that alien races exist, at least not on a level with humans. This would be inconsistent with a God who created mankind to be in His likeness, and be special in all of creation.

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Greybeard

Your argument is fallacious: You question the ability of Allmighty to create the very similar race on any other celectial body. After all, Star Treck proved we can interbreed with Klingons, Vulcans, etc. proving we all are the same kind !

Ragnarok · #2 February 26th, 2003, 08:55 PM

There is no other life out there, if there is, it is only microscopic and not intelligent. Nor have we ever been visited by aliens.
We as humans are unique in the universe, and always will be.

Along with Greybeards thought, well not along with it, but sort of against it.

I don't believe there is another "spirit realm". All those people you see claming to talk to the dead, or talk to the spirits of ones or read the future or crap like that, I like to call that demons at work.
But like I said, that is how I feel and I'm sure not everyone agrees with that. Which is fine.

Wardad · #3 February 26th, 2003, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by QuarianRex:
...As for the military, they might get a little twitchy but there is really nothing they can do against orbital bombardment and they know it...

Some how my disturbed mind conjured up a movie image of a gangster trying to ride a horse. He gets so frustrated and points his gun at the horses head. Well, of course the animal doesn't recognize the threat and doesn't respond.
So maybe we are to stupid to be conquered yet.

Aloofi · #4 February 26th, 2003, 09:25 PM

I don't have an opinion about if alien races exists or not. I really don't.
But if they exist its very unlikely that they would have the means to communicate with us.
In theory, our galaxy might be swarming with life, and even a few intelligent species, or maybe our galaxy its just a barren piece of real estate. Or maybe there is nothing out there and even the stars are an optical ilusion.....
Who knows?

oleg · #5 February 26th, 2003, 09:33 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:

quote:
Originally posted by QuarianRex:
...As for the military, they might get a little twitchy but there is really nothing they can do against orbital bombardment and they know it...

Some how my disturbed mind conjured up a movie image of a gangster trying to ride a horse. He gets so frustrated and points his gun at the horses head. Well, of course the animal doesn't recognize the threat and doesn't respond.
So maybe we are to stupid to be conquered yet.

don't remember exact quote or who said it but it is something like: "the exact proof that there is an intelligent life out there is that no one tried to contact us "

Puke · #6 February 26th, 2003, 10:14 PM

i think that was from a calvin and hobes comic strip, as calvin is looking at a sawed off tree stump, littered with empty beer cans.

Fyron · #7 February 26th, 2003, 10:16 PM

There is little to no possibility of being visited by an alien race because it would be quite impractical to get to earth from another star system. It is impossible to travel faster than light, or even anywhere near the speed of light. It would take centuries to get here from the nearest stars, and there is no way those stars could support life on any planets that could be around them. Alpha Centauri and its companion stars probably don't even have any planets, much less ones that could support life. So, any life-supporting planets are going to be much farther away, making a trip here even less practical. Warp points (or frequent worm holes, which is what warp points would be, really) do not exist in reality, so that nullifies the possibility of bypassing most of interstellar space on the trip here.