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Yes, I think we would encounter something we had never even considered if we came in contact with space travelers. No little grey/green men at all, actually...men....can't even fit their discription. We'd be stunned.
I suppose what I mean to say is that aliens would be completely different than any preconceived notions we currently have.
Yes, I think we would encounter something we had never even considered if we came in contact with space travelers. No little grey/green men at all, actually...men....can't even fit their discription. We'd be stunned.
That could very well be true. Lacking evidence to the contrary however, I say that if you follow these creatures back to their humble origins, youll find DNA or something extremely similar.
We just can't seem (all of us) to realize things might be 100% different with whatever is out there. They have nothing at all to do with anything we know of. No DNA, or RNA or anything remotely similiar to what we know of.
Maybe now, at their current evolutionary/technological state. But even assuming this as truth, still, at one time the grays or whatever were naked half beasts chilling in three dimensions.
I see no reason to assume "they" had to do anything like we had to deal with. I see it as someting 100% different and unique to us. Something we can't even fathom right now.
That seems pretty in far fetched if you ask me, but hey, what the do I know?
Try talking the cell phone, computers, the TV, radio to the Gro Magnon, they'd think that's all pretty far fetched. Who would have believed back in 1963 that someday we'd have a black president?
We want to put our limitations on everything and that's where we make our mistake. When we start dealing with alien life forms the key word there is....alien.
True, but all those things could have been built back then with the proper tools, materials and means of production. What youre talking about seems more metaphysical in nature.
The point is those things were never thought of back then. Putting sounds on a record/anything was never thought of as ancient man huddled around a fire in as cave. A satellite dish? The airplane?
Where do you think we'll be 1000 years from now?
Maybe "they" see that we aren't ready for them yet, too immature in our thinking.
Sure, its possible, and at the same time they could still have DNA in every cell of their body.
Life as we know it....why? Why would beings/things from the vastness of outer space be governed by our laws and rules? How come no other planets are like this one? So why would "they" be like us when where "they' come from isn't?
Because thats all we have as evidence to draw conclusions from.
Which goes back to those cave dwellers and their limitations at the time. So unless we have evidence of something we can't imagine something else without any evidence?
It's been many times, it's called Sci fi and fantasy.
And before that it was called religion.
That's right, all those ancients had their Gods with ....0...evidence of their existence. And those Gods were not limited like they were. They had superhuman powers, they were different and lived by a different set of laws and limitations.
All dwelling high above their lowly followers.
I do not come in anger little one. This board is a ridiculously funny place.
So consider this:
I think you should just stay on Earth instead of treading into deep water. It's tough to take you seriously when you don't even wish to understand the basics. You are like a frustrated child wishing to write a book yet you do not believe in letters, words or phrases. Anyone can scribble on a piece of paper.
So scribble away as if it were a masterpiece of thought.
Last edited by pgardn; 03-27-2016 at 10:49 AM.
Yep. Part of the beauty of how complex life is. That is part of why current ideas on the mechanisms of evolution are so interesting. We have psuedogenes that appear to do nothing but coattail functional regions of DNA for generation after generation. The "Selfish Gene" , by Richard Dawkins, looks like it was overstated but some of the ideas were very compelling and still hold sway. This book explained junk DNA before it was even identified. Now we have found that some of the junk is has a regulatory function. The big surprise continues to be how few genes it takes to build an organism and how just changing some regulatory regions can lead to a vastly different organism from a morphological point of view. This of course makes evolution even more interesting as it shows the great unity of life as we know it on Earth.
BTW. Dawkins, sadly, used most of his time after his insights into baiting anti evolution preachers into debates that went nowhere instead of adding to the actual science. Another example of a science guy who understood the difference between science and religion and decided to put efforts into nonproductive encounters. IMO of course.
So you believe those basics would be universal? No matter how far away "they" are they would be ruled by the same laws and principles that we abide by? It isn't possible we see a whole other set of laws and principles where "they" come from?
Us earthlings are different as we know, skin pigment is different, hair texture, eyes, size, intelligence. Then we have the different sexes. To think "they" won't be totally different than we are would be naive.
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What basics? The ones you refuse to believe.
Who is they?
Last edited by pgardn; 03-27-2016 at 08:21 PM.
The basics would be what it takes to sustain life on planet earth. And they would be those not from planet earth.
What are the basics that it takes to sustain life on Earth?
http://www.livescience.com/32983-wha...ents-life.html
There you go.
Now, why do you think those of another galaxy would be under the same laws that we are under? Why must we be similiar in anything? They could be totally diferent in everything.
Cool.
So we are almost certain these same atoms are found in other galaxies. Do you know why? So yes, in other galaxies absolutely yes I can see CHONP as being the elements of life. Possibly silicon based as well. This assumes that we have the same definition of life.
In another UNIVERSE with totally different physical principals at work I would not even know where to begin as I know what we think about this universe we are in. We are able to make observations, conduct experiments, and test ideas in this universe. This allows for legitimate discussion about this universe. If you wish to make up a universe in which neither energy or atoms exist fell free to do so. It's like scribbling incoherently on paper. Anyone can do it and there is no discussion as its make your own rules that don't have to be followed when YOU deem it appropriate not to follow rules.
Are you capable of talking about any topic without the aggression? Why do you need to play that? Stick to the topic, ok?
It's this assumption that all things must be as we know them that gets me. We just can't seem to grasp the concept that things out there might be totally different. If we are being visited they are far superior to us when it comes to flight, so why should it stop there?
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