Thread: UFOs

Yeah, it's the "unidentified" bit that's key to this stuff. To one person it's a weird moving light in the sky, to another its a refracted image from miles away due to a temperature inversion or similar.

James.

A book series that every UFOlogist should read, at least once.

'Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I indended',
said Ford. 'I came for a week and got stuck for fifteen years.'

'But how did you get there in the first place then?'

'Easy, I got a lift with a teaser.'

'A teaser?'

'Yeah.'

'Er, what is...'

'A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around
looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.'

'Buzz them?' Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult
for him.

'Yeah,' said Ford, 'they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few
people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's ever
going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae
on their head and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really.'

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Originally Posted by Hirlau

At $3.75 a gallon and they gotta travel across the galaxy,,,, I doubt it,,,,

Oh my god. I want to pay that much for gas. You would flip if you had to buy gas here.

there are plenty of unexplained sightings by qualified and trustworthy people. i personally go for the interdementional theory. now maybe you think i'm the weird guy.

Originally Posted by tintin

there are plenty of unexplained sightings by qualified and trustworthy people. i personally go for the interdementional theory. now maybe you think i'm the weird guy.

Nope, there is a hole at the poles that they enter and leave by, the earth is actually hollow.

Originally Posted by Sic4531

....My intention was to show that stuff like bacteria is amusing to us and some people spend their entire lives staring at uninteresting, boring, microscopic blobs as a passion. I meant that intelligent life will always find something to study, no matter how boring....

Here's another contrarian turn. A thought divergence if you will.

Consider the complexity of the human machine. The electrical system, the fluid flow, heat exchange, hydraulics and mechanical systems all fine tuned down to the very atomic level. Intracellular machinery ever smaller than even the macro vs micro machinery and all done in self-repairing organic materials. So well integrated that no conscious thought is required for this set of complex systems to operate. Each of these systems is build upon preceding cellular systems of simpler quality, much like assembling a larger machine from smaller machines, all formerly bacterial or fungal elements with viral particles or assemblies used to exchange the cellular instruction materials for reproduction. Depending on calculating from either cell volume or weight a simple estimate is that the human body contains between 15 to 70 trillion (with a T) cells.

What if God is a bacterial mat and we are constructed beings, not much different than cruise ships? Assembled to take passengers from place to place they can't get on their own, feed them 24/7, a party barge...

Bacteria have a better chance of surviving "outer space" and some pretty hostile environments even in our diverse ecosystem than we do as complicated structures. They adapt far faster to changing conditions to survive. They could "land" on a different planet after a long hibernation trip where the time constraints of space travel would not matter and where they are not nearly as affected by the radiation to begin to adapt directly to the new environment. It's a better explanation of life in more places than Earth without adding insoluble layers of complexity to allow a complex survival suit (us) to survive outside an environment it was specifically adapted to.

This does not make God any smaller, only different. It remains in keeping with the idea that a greater intelligence will still seem more magical to the lesser.

Originally Posted by guitstik

A book series that every UFOlogist should read, at least once.

... or skip the whole reading part and get straight to the answer - 42
of course, one could also simply google it: Let me google that for you

I believe in aliens , I don't believe they need running lights

Originally Posted by Hirlau

At $3.75 a gallon and they gotta travel across the galaxy,,,, I doubt it,,,,

Gas up in New Jersey I think it was 3.44 a gallon the last time I gased up. Thank you Jersey for ya Cheap Gasoline right on the boarder of where I work.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Here's another contrarian turn. A thought divergence if you will.

Consider the complexity of the human machine. The electrical system, the fluid flow, heat exchange, hydraulics and mechanical systems all fine tuned down to the very atomic level. Intracellular machinery ever smaller than even the macro vs micro machinery and all done in self-repairing organic materials. So well integrated that no conscious thought is required for this set of complex systems to operate. Each of these systems is build upon preceding cellular systems of simpler quality, much like assembling a larger machine from smaller machines, all formerly bacterial or fungal elements with viral particles or assemblies used to exchange the cellular instruction materials for reproduction. Depending on calculating from either cell volume or weight a simple estimate is that the human body contains between 15 to 70 trillion (with a T) cells.

What if God is a bacterial mat and we are constructed beings, not much different than cruise ships? Assembled to take passengers from place to place they can't get on their own, feed them 24/7, a party barge...

Bacteria have a better chance of surviving "outer space" and some pretty hostile environments even in our diverse ecosystem than we do as complicated structures. They adapt far faster to changing conditions to survive. They could "land" on a different planet after a long hibernation trip where the time constraints of space travel would not matter and where they are not nearly as affected by the radiation to begin to adapt directly to the new environment. It's a better explanation of life in more places than Earth without adding insoluble layers of complexity to allow a complex survival suit (us) to survive outside an environment it was specifically adapted to.

This does not make God any smaller, only different. It remains in keeping with the idea that a greater intelligence will still seem more magical to the lesser.

I think the forge got a little too hot today,,,,,