Reply to: UFOs - bollocks?

[wendigo100]

Au contraire. There is so much more to life and the universe than we could ever wish to know about. It IS sheer arrogance to think that we are the highest beings in all of it's infinite existance.

How do you know?

[pisces]

There is bugger all out there. The initiation of life on Earth was such a jammy event that the odds against it happening again elsewhere are astronomical.

Au contraire. There is so much more to life and the universe than we could ever wish to know about. It IS sheer arrogance to think that we are the highest beings in all of it's infinite existance.

[shoes]

There is bugger all out there. The initiation of life on Earth was such a jammy event that the odds against it happening again elsewhere are astronomical.

Yes. Astronomical. Why, you'd need billions of stars for a start! Oh. Drake equation anyone?

[wendigo100]

Disagree
It is arrogance to suppose that in the billions of galaxies, trillions of stars we would be somehow unique

Why arrogance? You and I dispute the value of chance, not the worthiness of our existence.

[Troll]

There is bugger all out there. The initiation of life on Earth was such a jammy event that the odds against it happening again elsewhere are astronomical.

Disagree
It is arrogance to suppose that in the billions of galaxies, trillions of stars we would be somehow unique

[wendigo100]

There is bugger all out there. The initiation of life on Earth was such a jammy event that the odds against it happening again elsewhere are astronomical.

[threaded]

Maybe they'd find us comical, and we're this seasons unwitting replacement 2 Ronnies on ET TV.

[xoggoth]

If there is superior intelligent life out there it will not be benign, peaceful herbivores do not dominate. The reality would be Independence Day, War Of the Worlds, Midwich Cuckoos, not this "Welcome To Our Federation" crap.

No, there are no UFOs out there, if there was any race advanced enough to travel the galaxy and lurk in our solar system, we would have been conquered, exterminated, shagged and/or eaten long ago.

[ratewhore]

All that was on the telly the other night. Program about the large hadron collider.

Looks like they should find out about the Higgs this year one way or the other. Either that or blow us all up as discussed in a previous thread.

Me - I haven't got a fecking clue...

[wendigo100]

Or renounce it as the devil.

Well that's true. If He says "Sorry, the jews were right, Jesus wasn't my son", the Christians might well denounce Him.

And if He says "sorry, but there's no 72 virgins", the Muslims might try to blow Him up.

[OwlHoot]

Have they found Higg's Bosun yet?

I hope not - I've bet string theorist Lubos Motl $500 that it won't be found before 31 Dec 2012

He probably reckons the bet's a no-brainer (and that I am too), because the Higgs is predicted by the Standard Model, and he's probably right; but I'm not so sure ..

[Captain Dispensable]

Or renounce it as the devil.

[wendigo100]

Edited, slight typo.

It's probably me then, but is there still an extraneous word or two in there?

Whatever the answer is all mainstream modern religions would be dissapointed to be hear it.

I'll assume you mean "disappointed to hear it", and you might be right. Then, after a suitable pause to check their bibles, korans and stuff, they will all say how they were right all along.

[XTC]

I saw one at Party in the PArk last year.

[gingerjedi]

Space is an amazing place. Just looking up at the milkyway on a moonless night is awesome, even without recreational drugs!

I did that after a particularly boozy night out last September whilst in Cyprus, I just lay there on a secluded beach staring at the Milky Way, the longer you look the more you see, truly mind bogglingly amazing.