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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.07.03 23:40:00 -
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I always remember this phrase from a programme about the universe some time back:
"If all the grains of sand across the entire Earth were stars and you painted one blue to signify our solar system, you'd have to be insane to believe there wasn't another single blue grain of sand anywhere else."
However, even though I am certain life is out there somewhere, it's bound by the same laws of physics as we are, and therefore impossible to be able to travel the vast distances required.
Even if life was on a planet orbiting our nearest star, it's 4.2 light years away. That's 4.2 years at the speed of light. That's 4.2 years at 186 thousand miles a second.
Of course, they may know ways around our physical limitations, and be able to bend space and time. Who knows? If they had the ability to travel to Earth, they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye if they desired.
Secondly, life is likely to be so different, I'm unsure we'd even recognise it as such.
Look at life on Earth: Humans. Viruses. Bacteria. Trees. From the hottest springs, to the deepest oceans, life differs so much.
And that's just on our planet, with our specific gravity, our atmospheric makeup, our planet's mineral makeup, water in abundance etc.
Yes it's out there. No we won't come across it.
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.07.04 14:29:00 -
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A timely page on the BBC News site today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6268708.stm
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.07.05 17:31:00 -
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 Originally by: P3109
Edited by: P3109 on 05/07/2007 08:13:21
Originally by: Keta Min
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
you have absolutely no idea how badly i am geeking out right now...i actually think i just had a stroke because of it
Wow, that's amazing. Thanks.
I didn't just have a stroke, I had a full on tug!  
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.07.05 19:15:00 -
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Why would they come and contact humans first?
Water covers 4/5ths of the Earth's surface. They might have gone under the sea, and are plotting to move against us with the Dolphins.
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.07.05 21:12:00 -
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Consider the unlikely even that bipedal oxygen breathing aliens ever visited this planet.
Why are we assuming they would be nice and kind, and likely to want to avoid us because we're warlike?
Maybe their race to the stars was forged by them being even more warlike, and they had to get a move on into space due to mucking up their own planet even more than we've managed?
They might laugh in our faces if presented with our best military "threats".
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