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Aliens

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  • #2
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Has to be some better intelligence out there. Look at some of the fcuk ups we have made.


  • #3
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    [History channel guy] Aliens [/history channel guy]


  • #4
    Strawberry Fields
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Strawberry Fields


    BidillyBo wrote: »
    Could someone who doesn't believe in aliens have a look at this and tell me how they don't think there could be any other life as or more intelligent than us out there. Universe pretty dam big. http://api.ning.com/files/U**Gm5XEdF7NTYFEzKAeUNUbomfR2l-sSY0YiSDsMRlxXexviDSmMNwc5yr4b0ZPcl7B1H6C0U5OGRqqDS6q8*Yj9NIjN7rZ/StarSizeChart.jpg

    Well you certainly won't find it on AH.


  • #5
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Belief is an overused word.


  • #6
    joydivision
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.


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  • #7
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us


  • #8
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    The universe may be very big, but the chances of intelligent life evolving is very small.


  • #9
    LostCorkGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭LostCorkGuy


    Of course there is but they are too far away to ever make contact


    Also if we ever make contact there will be an Almighty war a few years after first contact , 2 species who are used to being the dominant species coming together , of course there will be a struggle , and if they are the ones to find us , well then that means we'll prob lose


  • #10
    Mocha Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    Jaysus look at that. I'm giving up diet and exercise and going for 10 pints and a kebab.


  • #11
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,351 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    We are but a dot.


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  • #12
    BidillyBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭BidillyBo


    joydivision wrote: »
    Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.

    could be a lot smarter then us considering there's another thread about one of the most powerful countries on earth who had a pan to bomb the moon to show off to the Russians just kind of sums up how stupid and backwards we are


  • #13
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    The fact that humans are even here is a total mind-fúck. We're the result of a chain of events that, statistically, is next to impossible. Just us being here is a miracle in itself, let alone the fact that we're intelligent life.
    The odds of that happening again are seriously slim. But the fact that universe is so incredibly large makes me believe that there is life out there somewhere. Whether it's intelligent life is a different story altogether. It may just be bacteria or something, but I'd like to believe there is some sort of life out there.


  • #14
    Orim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    Thread title disappoints.

    Game over man, game over.


  • #15
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Intelligent life could be a complete accident. Look at us, in our Goldilocks planet. Just the right distance from the Sun to have liquid water, a moon to buffer us from impacts from asteroids, a spinning molten core which creates a magnetic field to protect us from solar radiation. Who knows if it will happen again? Then again that's not to say life can't exist in other conditions.

    The other thing is, the distances between solar systems is so massive that if there is intelligent life out there, we may never, ever meet. A sobering thought


  • #16
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Let's hope they do not know we are here. They will come and treat us the same way the colonials treated native people's on this planet.


  • #17
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    joydivision wrote: »
    Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.
    Not true.
    The big bang happened over 10billion years before our planet even formed.

    Theres galaxies out there that are much older than ours.


  • #18
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Really interesting thought here on alien life by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
    I'd love to go for a few drinks with this guy! I'd never stop asking him questions!



  • #19
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Nuke them I say. Every single planet out there, just to be sure.

    Except the Moon though, that's just stupid!


  • #20
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Has to be some better intelligence out there. Look at some of the fcuk ups we have made.

    Maybe we are the first intelligent beings...... but not exactly intelligent in a perfect way.
    Imagine what we would be like if we had the ability to travel amongst the stars.....a destructive dominating race no doubt.


  • #21
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »
    Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us

    Nah. I believe they just drop all their duds down here.


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  • #22
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Nuke them I say. Every single planet out there, just to be sure.

    Except the Moon though, that's just stupid!

    Stupid you say....mmmmmm!

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/29/america_plannned_to_nuke_the_moon/


  • #23
    franktheplank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    I want to share this with you guys. I'm not of this world.

    PM me for anal probe.


  • #24
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    This wee planet of ours is nothing but a grain of sand, on the grand scale of things. In our own belief, we are significant, but on the infinite, broader reality of things, we are nothing more than a mere and miniscule existence, in comparison to what the entire universe comprises of. It would be extremely naïve of us to say "we are the only intelligent life forms" to grace existence in this vast Universe, that we only understand from our own locality. We haven't even begun to understand that locality, that being our own solar system fully, yet?!?!


  • #25
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Fermi Paradox.

    If there is Alien life then by now it should have expanded all over the universe and they should be visible.

    "Where are they ?"


  • #26
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Intelligent life could be a complete accident. Look at us, in our Goldilocks planet. Just the right distance from the Sun to have liquid water, a moon to buffer us from impacts from asteroids, a spinning molten core which creates a magnetic field to protect us from solar radiation. Who knows if it will happen again? Then again that's not to say life can't exist in other conditions.

    The other thing is, the distances between solar systems is so massive that if there is intelligent life out there, we may never, ever meet. A sobering thought

    Um. A sobering thought if you initially believed you would be meeting intelligent extra-terrestrial life, otherwise a fairly grounded and logical thought.

    There's no reason to think that earth is a once off. If the conditions are in place we have no evidence to suggest carbon based life wouldn't ignite elsewhere. And the universe is staggering.
    There's no doubt there are other earth like planets in existence but certain universal laws and a propensity for cataclysm would see many worlds face an up hill struggle, and even then there would be no safe bet in them traveling between stars or the like. That's all a bit farcical, up until it isn't, which is an awful long shot in the dark.


  • #27
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    There is no Alien life out there. If there was then they are much more intelligent than us and are avoiding us like the plague.



    If they landed here sure Fianna Fail would have fleeced them.


  • #28
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    tayto lover wrote: »
    There is no Alien life out there. If there was then they are much more intelligent than us and are avoiding us like the plague.



    If they landed here sure Fianna Fail would have fleeced them.

    Earth Visitor TAX :pac:


  • #29
    Fiery mutant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Fermi Paradox.

    If there is Alien life then by now it should have expanded all over the universe and they should be visible.

    "Where are they ?"

    So what about us? Can we not apply the same process to ourselves, and say we should have expanded all over the universe by now?

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • #30
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Really interesting thought here on alien life by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
    I'd love to go for a few drinks with this guy! I'd never stop asking him questions!


    Watch out, we've got a badass here!

    Still a poor mans Carl Sagan.


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  • #31
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »
    Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us

    I for one welcome our new alien overlords


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