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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/should-we-actively-try-to-contact-aliens-2015-3 Good read! My boy Neil deGrasse Tyson preaches! In all seriousness, what do you think? And who has the right to speak for earth?? All good questions. Would you give your address to a stranger? I wouldn't. Although our perceptions of aliens are the ones that blow up earth or harvest humans...
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 06:29:34
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I think we should actively look for other life, but to send out a beckon of our position, I'm not so sure about.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 06:39:18
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If Aliens have a sense of humor they are probably laughing at the stupidity of the human race.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 06:39:25
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Kind of a pointless debate since we have zero proof that aliens even exist at this time.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 06:58:52
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Making contact with a space traveling alien species is just stupid. Forst off we barely get along with ourselves so how the hell are we with aliens? Second if we did and they decide to conquer or wipe us out we wouldn't stand a snowball chance in hell
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:05:56
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MrImSoGood Making contact with a space traveling alien species is just stupid. Forst off we barely get along with ourselves so how the hell are we with aliens? Second if we did and they decide to conquer or wipe us out we wouldn't stand a snowball chance in hell
It is stupid. These wacko scientist keep watching too many Hollywood movies. All they do is come up with some crazy theory out of their rear ends and then tell society its real and you should believe because I am a classified as an "expert".
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:11:00
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HAZMAN_THE_GREAT
MrImSoGood Making contact with a space traveling alien species is just stupid. Forst off we barely get along with ourselves so how the hell are we with aliens? Second if we did and they decide to conquer or wipe us out we wouldn't stand a snowball chance in hell
It is stupid. These wacko scientist keep watching too many Hollywood movies. All they do is come up with some crazy theory out of their rear ends and then tell society its real and you should believe because I am a classified as an "expert".
As much as I love science and space travel I do believe that alot of the stuff we're being told is straight bulls**t. Like how are they to know that the universe is 14 billions years old when we can't even leave our own planet
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:14:15
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“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:15:07
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HAZMAN_THE_GREAT I should be the one who deserves to talk to aliens. Why am I the chosen one because aliens are not real so we dont ever have to worry about me talking to them.
Ha!, nailed it.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:18:25
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well there are billions of planets in this galaxy alone. and billions of other galaxies out there. to say there is no other life in the universe would be incredibly short sighted. that being said, the only thing this planet might have that isn't abundant everywhere in the universe is us. so yeah, alien movies where they stop by to harvest our planet for minerals or water is unrealistic. but as far as trying to contact aliens.. I don't think we'll have to tell them where we are.. we've been broadcasting radio and TV signals for the last century, we wouldn't be that hard to find for any race that is traveling through space looking for someone like us.. as long as they're relatively close =P
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:23:35
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lempo well there are billions of planets in this galaxy alone. and billions of other galaxies out there. to say there is no other life in the universe would be incredibly short sighted. that being said, the only thing this planet might have that isn't abundant everywhere in the universe is us. so yeah, alien movies where they stop by to harvest our planet for minerals or water is unrealistic. but as far as trying to contact aliens.. I don't think we'll have to tell them where we are.. we've been broadcasting radio and TV signals for the last century, we wouldn't be that hard to find for any race that is traveling through space looking for someone like us.. as long as they're relatively close =P
And it's not a guarantee that we're the only species to take this form
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:38:50
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Should we search = yes Should we advertise our location = no
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 07:39:36
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Yep there is absolutely no way any other intelligent life exists in all of the billions of galaxy's that exist. No way that any intelligent life has ever come here before. We are the center of everything. And if you believe that, I have some swamp land in death valley for sale. We don't have to try and contact aliens. They already know we are here.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 08:24:45
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All things considered, they would have to have a really good reason to come and visit Earth, because it would take a heck of a long time to get here.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 08:30:57
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Any species capable of intergalactic travel would be way beyond us. Time will must likely be irrelevant to them, we be ants compared to them. I like Stephen Hawking theory, they come consume our solar system's resources, consume our sun's energy to create a worm hole to head to another system. http://science.howstuffwo...r-the-aliens-video.htm
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 10:07:23
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McMada Any species capable of intergalactic travel would be way beyond us. Time will must likely be irrelevant to them, we be ants compared to them. I like Stephen Hawking theory, they come consume our solar system's resources, consume our sun's energy to create a worm hole to head to another system.
http://science.howstuffwo...r-the-aliens-video.htm
I still don't think that if you were truly a space fairing civilization that travels through interstellar space and survives off gathering resources that you would bother with small rocky planets that are already inhabited. first off the amount of resources that could be gathered here are miniscule compared to even the kuiper belt and oort cloud that surround our solar system. Seems like it would be easier to gather up a handful of the trillions of comets and icy bodies that inhabit those regions then it would be to bother with the tiny little crumb of a rock we call earth. Not to mention the obvious fact those things are probably already pretty much sterile and would pose a much smaller risk of contamination. If you think humans are dangerous, you know very little of microbial life. Think of our solar system and surrounding region as a banquet hall, you walk in and see a veritable smorgasbord of resources, the main course would of course be the oort cloud and kuiper belt with the very large gas giants maybe playing the role of side dish or appetizer. the earth would be a pea that had fallen on the floor compared to the feast that surrounds us. of course you might squash that pea while walking around the table gorging yourself on resources. but you wouldn't want to pick it up and eat it because it's filthy..... we're the filth on the pea and we've been here a lot longer than 5 seconds, so the 5 second rule no longer applies.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 10:22:22
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 10:45:15
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Anyone considered whether other life would be obliged to be intelligent? Perhaps it's all exactly like earth would be without humans. Never know.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 10:46:40
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Nereus The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 10:55:33
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ty_ger07 Kind of a pointless debate since we have zero proof that aliens even exist at this time.
You would change your mind if you met my mother-in-law
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 11:49:07
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lempo
McMada Any species capable of intergalactic travel would be way beyond us. Time will must likely be irrelevant to them, we be ants compared to them. I like Stephen Hawking theory, they come consume our solar system's resources, consume our sun's energy to create a worm hole to head to another system.
http://science.howstuffwo...r-the-aliens-video.htm
I still don't think that if you were truly a space fairing civilization that travels through interstellar space and survives off gathering resources that you would bother with small rocky planets that are already inhabited. first off the amount of resources that could be gathered here are miniscule compared to even the kuiper belt and oort cloud that surround our solar system. Seems like it would be easier to gather up a handful of the trillions of comets and icy bodies that inhabit those regions then it would be to bother with the tiny little crumb of a rock we call earth. Not to mention the obvious fact those things are probably already pretty much sterile and would pose a much smaller risk of contamination. If you think humans are dangerous, you know very little of microbial life. Think of our solar system and surrounding region as a banquet hall, you walk in and see a veritable smorgasbord of resources, the main course would of course be the oort cloud and kuiper belt with the very large gas giants maybe playing the role of side dish or appetizer. the earth would be a pea that had fallen on the floor compared to the feast that surrounds us. of course you might squash that pea while walking around the table gorging yourself on resources. but you wouldn't want to pick it up and eat it because it's filthy..... we're the filth on the pea and we've been here a lot longer than 5 seconds, so the 5 second rule no longer applies.
It's all theorys man, who knows the truth, you are wrong as much as I am.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 11:59:06
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ty_ger07 Kind of a pointless debate since we have zero proof that aliens even exist at this time.
You would change your mind if you met my mother-in-law
+1 Awesome. Ours must be related.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 12:02:44
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rjohnson11 If Aliens have a sense of humor they are probably laughing at the stupidity of the human race.
I agree and then they can wipe us out for being so stupid. But I think we should still take the chance to find life elsewhere. Who knows maybe the can correct our ways and lead us on a better path.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 12:10:45
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If we made contact, they would take our fossil fuels. I bet they already around us helping our population grow since the beginning, farming us with the help of medical science prolonging human life, so when the population reaches a breaking point they will exterminate 99% of life which in turn will make more fossil fuels.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 14:20:13
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I think when looking for life we need to stop looking for earth like planets...
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 18:55:50
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Brad is an alien from another planet disguised as a rabbit.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 19:45:14
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Two words: Lizard People. Yeah, you heard me.
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Re: Should Earth Make Contact With Aliens?
2015/03/31 21:41:30
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Nereus Two words: Lizard People. Yeah, you heard me.
I read a book about lizard people, maybe arthur c clark wrote it, he is known to be correct on some things
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