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When I think of aliens and extraterrestrial beings, my eyes start to tear...
Ok, so I'm here, checking stuff on wikipedia (yes, I do that when I'm bored) about like human evolution and I read a bit about Arecibo's message (a message sent to aliens via radio waves in 1974) and I was thinking about an alien encounter, how it would be, what would i need to do or how i should react (Sugar my pants lol)
So, yeah, when I got to the point of actualy thinking about an encounter, my eyes started tearing.
EACH time I think about an encounter, or about why aliens would just observe us just like animals in a zoo (see "zoo hypothesis") my eyes start crying
It's not like a emotionnal one, just like, maybe a little tiny bit of overwhelment tears.
anyways, so I though it was a VERY strange reaction to a simple thought like that. I never cry for no reason except in this case.
A science-fictionnal hypothesis of mine would be that they aliens possibely implanted that reaction in my brain for an unknow reason that I wouldn't know.
Anyone ever cried when thinking about the same thing and without knowing why?
So, yeah, when I got to the point of actualy thinking about an encounter, my eyes started tearing.
EACH time I think about an encounter, or about why aliens would just observe us just like animals in a zoo (see "zoo hypothesis") my eyes start crying
It's not like a emotionnal one, just like, maybe a little tiny bit of overwhelment tears.
anyways, so I though it was a VERY strange reaction to a simple thought like that. I never cry for no reason except in this case.
A science-fictionnal hypothesis of mine would be that they aliens possibely implanted that reaction in my brain for an unknow reason that I wouldn't know.
Anyone ever cried when thinking about the same thing and without knowing why?
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Geezer, //I say hi to my mate in the closest star and his reply comes back in 8 years! //
That's a very limited viewpoint. Maybe we won't have to look as far as the other side of the galaxy. There are a myriad of star systems in between. Any anyway, what's wrong with 8 years - or 50 years - or 100 years? In the great scheme of things that's very little time indeed....
That's a very limited viewpoint. Maybe we won't have to look as far as the other side of the galaxy. There are a myriad of star systems in between. Any anyway, what's wrong with 8 years - or 50 years - or 100 years? In the great scheme of things that's very little time indeed....
14:18 Sat 08th May 2010
Geezer, //Aliens exist, we will never meet them or communicate in any way, the distances are too vast. //
We've had this conversation before. You can't say that because you don't know. Who knows where science might lead us in say 10,000 years (if we haven't blown ourselves to smithereens before)? Don't limit your imagination to what we know now. Technologically speaking we're only babies.
BlacKOoze, no, never.
We've had this conversation before. You can't say that because you don't know. Who knows where science might lead us in say 10,000 years (if we haven't blown ourselves to smithereens before)? Don't limit your imagination to what we know now. Technologically speaking we're only babies.
BlacKOoze, no, never.
Psst, Naomi, have to stopped to consider for a moment the ever so remote possibility that maybe, just maybe, there could be some amongst use who for one reason or another might prefer you did not share certain information . . . ahem, Which as everyone here can plainly see are entirely nonsensical and completely ludicrous notions . . . of that sort with the Whole Wide World?! <o/"\o>
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Naomi, even at warp 10 it would take 8-10000 years to cross the galaxy. Sorry even with Star Trek technology it's impossible. I know it's a romantic notion. I guess you are thinkin of some sort of Stargate style system with communication stones etc. Sorry when you have a good understanding of the vastness of even the locality you can see that even at c communication is impossible. I say hi to my mate in the closest star and his reply comes back in 8 years!
Geezer, //I say hi to my mate in the closest star and his reply comes back in 8 years! //
That's a very limited viewpoint. Maybe we won't have to look as far as the other side of the galaxy. There are a myriad of star systems in between. Any anyway, what's wrong with 8 years - or 50 years - or 100 years? In the great scheme of things that's very little time indeed.
I don't believe my understanding of the universe is any less than yours, and neither do I believe that man is so far advanced technologically that he has little left to learn. We are mere infants. Although I can't say where science will lead us, or what it will discover - and neither can anyone else - I think in the light of our current meagre knowledge if we could foresee what the future holds, it would blow our minds.
That's a very limited viewpoint. Maybe we won't have to look as far as the other side of the galaxy. There are a myriad of star systems in between. Any anyway, what's wrong with 8 years - or 50 years - or 100 years? In the great scheme of things that's very little time indeed.
I don't believe my understanding of the universe is any less than yours, and neither do I believe that man is so far advanced technologically that he has little left to learn. We are mere infants. Although I can't say where science will lead us, or what it will discover - and neither can anyone else - I think in the light of our current meagre knowledge if we could foresee what the future holds, it would blow our minds.
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