Posted on 08/28/2019 1:12:33 PM PDT by robowombat
Why would angels and demons fly around in space craft with flashing lights?
Yes....that would be the science is settled gang.
The bus driver has spoken.
You have to store cow lips SOMEWHERE....
I think he’s right. But there is no way it will ever get here or we will ever get there. Best we can hope for is that we may be able to communicate with radio waves.
“I do not know” is the only honest answer.
I don't believe we've been visited by an alien intelligence and I don't believe we ever will. The time and distances are too great to overcome.
A civilization blips into existence lasts a few million years and blips out again. Never knowing about the civilizations that did the same in their own galaxy a billion years ago, let alone the rest of the universe a billion years from now.
Perhaps we'll get radio signals that took 3 billion years to arrive and let us know that a civilization lived 3 billion light years away, 3 billion years ago. But they will have likely been extinguished for 2.9 billion years.
Way back when, my dad was one of the guys who trained the guys who walked on the moon.
Pete Conrad (Apollo 12) was a test pilot prior to going to the space program. As they were sitting around a camp fire late one night over a few adult beverages, Pete, related the time when the base he was flying a new plane out of was shut down when something no one had ever seen the likes of landed on the end of the runway before leaving at very high speed.
Still going on...
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2019/08/mysterious-oregon-cattle-killings-mutilations-alarm-ranchers.html
What do you think happened to him?
LOL
Remember that one. Roz and Frasier, so busy arguing with one another they missed everything John Glenn put on tape. John took the tape with him when leaving and the two were left in the dark.
It’s still rebroadcast on occasion.
Anyone for TANG?
Everyone has their own opinion about the Beatles but I wouldn't go so far as to call them Dung.
And if a planet had dung beetles there would have be some larger critters providing the dung.
I have no idea, but I don’t buy the gubmint BS.
Some really insightful answers to a simple question and simple answer. Statistically when one considers the number of stars in just our Milky Way galaxy there has to be many, many planets that are in the ‘goldilocks zone’. These are planets that have similar location relative to their sun as is Earth. If you start throwing out candidates that are too large (crushing gravity), no atmosphere or at least not NI/O2 in a close combination to Earth, and a large group of other deal breakers, there are still millions of candidates (statistically). The possibility of basic life (fungus, algae, etc) is likely IMHO.
Will we meet the Vulcans? Probably not but I would relish meeting T’Pol.
Why not. All we know about angels is that that are extradimentional physical beings, (as described in the Bible). We have no idea what technology they use or is available to them.
Um, wrong question. The question is has he seen life beyond earth, and humans. Millions of people believe there is life beyond earth, based on nothing more than hope or imagination.
The right term would be farther out.
All it would take would be an intelligent species to have arisen and develop technology a billion years ago on a star somewhere in our galaxy, and they would have been able to build sub-luminal speed capable von Neumann machines/probes packed with their own DNA to have settled much of the galaxy by now.
Gene splicing and constant refinement of whatever life supporting world would be nothing to them.
Maybe we will be the first out of the box to build von Neumann type probes. But then again maybe we weren't. Not by far.
Therefore, as Fermi said, “So where are they?”
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