So, I saw a UFO today!

[jon]

I can think of a few ufo stories and encounters that cannot be contradicted by even the hardiest of th hardy skeptics.

Would you mind providing an example?
Im not trying to troll you, im just honestly curious.

[Shaolin Wookie]

Once the idea of "cost" is no longer a driving factor (and products can be prototyped very rapidly), what then would hold back a civilization from branching out more effectively into space?

Okay...thanks for the link by the way. Interesting.

I respect your position. But do you really think that an alien civilization would find it "effective" to branch out into space?

Our space-race and its technological devotion (on part of gov. pushes) is the direct result of terrestrial politics. Needn't look any further than the first moon landing's race against the soviets.

[Old Tiger]

Shaolin Wookie,

I won't argue if what I and other saw are alien based or not. However, you are preconceiving that alien life must conform to our human standards. That any alien intelligent life must only make up of hydrocarbons like us and think like us. That any alien societies must conform to our own civilization and that their politics must conform to our own politics. Should we be so arrogant to think that human is the smartest being in the entire universe and no life can exist outside of our 1 in how many billions or trillions of galaxies?

[Hau Tien]

Okay...thanks for the link by the way. Interesting.

I respect your position. But do you really think that an alien civilization would find it "effective" to branch out into space?

Our space-race and its technological devotion (on part of gov. pushes) is the direct result of terrestrial politics. Needn't look any further than the first moon landing's race against the soviets.

No worries on the link! I read a TON on the latest tech stuff. The more you read, the scarier it becomes, really. Most people don't realize how close we are to a MASSIVE change in EVERYTHING.

As for branching out into space being effective? Absolutely. In fact, it really is the only way to ensure that your species is not wiped out of existance.

For instance, Professor Stephen Hawking has recently come forward with the idea that we NEED to colonize space. Not so we can "rule more of the universe", but so that we can protect the human race from an "extinction level event" (like an asteroid hitting the Earth, biological weapon kills everything on the planet, etc).

I tend to agree with the idea that a "backup" for humanity would be a nice thing to have, but I am skeptical as to how soon you're going to see a viable colony on the moon or Mars, etc. The human body as it is now is not capable of surviving long spaceflight due to radiation (gamma radiation especially). We'll need to either replace the human body with something a little sturdier (or make it more able to heal itself through nanomachines) or discover a way to provide radiation shielding that isn't so bloody heavy to our spacecraft.

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

UPDATE:

Looks like MUFON wants to reopen my case. Apparently others have been seeing this particular type of UFO around here this past year.
I am supposed to be reinterviewed by one of thier guys in the next few weeks.

[Lucas]

UPDATE:

Looks like MUFON wants to reopen my case. Apparently others have been seeing this particular type of UFO around here this past year.
I am supposed to be reinterviewed by one of thier guys in the next few weeks.

I dare you to wear a Tin-Foil hat to the interview.

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

LOL!!! I am thinking about it!!! HA Haaa That just made my day!!

[Lucas]

LOL!!! I am thinking about it!!! HA Haaa That just made my day!!

lol, dude it would be sooo funny

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

Bump.......

[diego]

saw a ufo special about everyone saw something in this town and it happenned to really be meteors breaking up outside our orbit...interesting

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

One of the people from the UFO special I was on turned out to be seeing the planet Venus.

they still can't tell me what it was I saw though. It's still unidentified a year later.

[diego]

One of the people from the UFO special I was on turned out to be seeing the planet Venus.

they still can't tell me what it was I saw though. It's still unidentified a year later.

cool......

[Drake]

If they are out there, I do hope they're friendly.


Statistically speaking, it's more impopssible that there ISN'T intelligent life out there. Question is, are they around or below our level of technology, or are they more advanced?

Imagine if we started around the time of the dinosaurs, and we didn't have so many collapses in civilization. Someone like that might be out there.

[diego]

If they are out there, I do hope they're friendly.


Statistically speaking, it's more impopssible that there ISN'T intelligent life out there. Question is, are they around or below our level of technology, or are they more advanced?

Imagine if we started around the time of the dinosaurs, and we didn't have so many collapses in civilization. Someone like that might be out there.

imagine a race of et vegans looking at our slaughterhouses...humans are scarier than dinosaurs...we go all psycho dino's got big teeth uno you should run...humans plot

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

I think the aliens are here for filming Fetish Porn.