One of the few things that really get to me in life is people who just completely discount explanations of events simply because it defies belief. Give it a chance. It's possible, that's all. You really can't argue that it's completely impossible. |
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-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
It's also possible (though utterly minutely so) that I will accidentally discover a cure for cancer lying on the ground tomorrow, despite knowing absolutely nothing about medicine. But what's the point of entertaining all these "possibilities"? Better to disregard it, and spend my time doing something more productive, than walking along examining the ground for anything that could be related to cancer. |
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-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
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Countless billions of planets out there. Probably life out there. Possibly intelligent life out there. Possible intelligent life contacting us. We know so little about the universe, it's silly to think that we know enough to make dramatic assumptions like "aliens were not involved in our history". |
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Countless stars out there, depending on the location within a galaxy, the type of the star, any planets the star system has, if any are in the habitable zone, etc. All of this scattered across vast distances of space. Secondly, look at how long it took for intelligent life to emerge here on Earth. For another planet elsewhere to go through the same process and have intelligent life evolve more or less in the same time frame as us, and to progress to the point they not only surpassed us technologically, but were able to figure out an efficient and quick way of travelling over the vast distances of space. And yet, when they got here, instead of colonizing the planet for themselves, they decided to play god and then bugger off. Hmm, entirely plausible. [/sarcasm] |
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Last edited by bluefinger; 06-15-2008 at 01:43 PM.
-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
You're being very human centred here. Not all planets came in to being at the same time. You're really just making educated guesses. That's not enough basis for an assumption. And don't say that I'm assuming aliens have come into contact with us - I'm not. I'm just saying its plausible. |
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Hence the whole playing god thing. Also, emphasis on educated with the guessing. If you actually understand the implications of the distances involved just for travelling around in our own solar system, once you start looking at the distances between the closest stars to us, travelling around in space will not be an easy feat, even for a much more technologically advanced civilisation. My assumptions are based upon reality, not romanticism, and therefore aren't something to be simply shrugged off without an effective counterargument. And for saying something is plausible is still making the assumption for such a case, especially when there is no evidence or even a decent statistical probability to show otherwise. |
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Last edited by bluefinger; 06-15-2008 at 06:17 PM.
-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
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I would agree that this is entirely possible. There's really no way of knowing what happened, or how we got here. That's the big mystery of life. It's a question everyone wants to know. |
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LD's: ~35++
WILD's: 5
Umm... it's called logic and reasoning. If you look at the distances of space between just the nearest star, any thing coming over to us isn't gonna just go "Oh HAI THAR!" or "Let's drop off some genetic material here and bugger off, shall we?". Also, we have a pretty conclusive fossil record, genetics, taxonomy, and everything that suggests we evolved through natural means via common descent. There is nothing to suggest we were genetically engineered (if so, it was a pretty poor job). |
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-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
I love reading these forums and seeing people who don't have much knowledge about a particular subject, such as biology or space travel, seem to say that we don't have enough knowledge to make educated guesses. |
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Why such belittlement? |
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LD's: ~35++
WILD's: 5
Such closed mindedness and bitterness saddens me. Humanity is not a race worthy of life if we take ourselves this seriously. |
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Last edited by Patrick; 06-16-2008 at 10:13 PM.
-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
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