Post by Toxic-Avenger on Apr 22, 2002 12:30:49 GMT -5
<<The universe is enormous. / So vast / It is impossible to comprehend how huge it really is.>>
32,000,000,000 light years across!
<< The idea that we are the only planet in the entire universe that has forms of life is incredibly self-centered, in my opinion./ who are we to say that life can't exist away from home. That attittude is so typical. Humans put themselves at the centre of the universe... as usual. >>
Let me ask y'all something. Why is this self-centered? What IF that's the way it is? Why couldn't we just accept the fact that we are the only ones?
Is it arrogant to think we are the only ones, or is it that we can't handle the idea that we're all alone? If we beleive there is life elsewhere, it's just as easy that Earth is it. The rest of the universe was a big experiment that failed, except for Earth. <br>
<<The only planets we know enough about are the 9 that are in our solar system.>>
Many have been discovered in other solar systems, but they are too close to a star to sustain life, or too big for significant life to develop. By being too big, the gravity of a planet the size of Jupiter has a gravity too strong to have life develop into much more than bacteria.
And just think if there WAS an intelligent race out there, do you think God, Goddess, (your divine spirit here) or something has kept us away from each other for a reason? Look how much trouble we have just trying to get along with each other on THIS planet. How could we possibly get along with another planet without p***ing other off? <br>
<<Isn't it interesting how the ancient civilizations in Egypt, S America and Asia just sprang up from no where and then disappeared? Ever stopped to consider if these were really aliens come to earth, to teach everything they knew to this primitive world, and then left? >>
Look at the stuff we build now. The ancient pyrimids were built by hundreds of thousands of people working 16 hour days under brutal conditions and threat of death every day. Alot can be accomplished. They disapperaed because they were attacked by invading races, and people's. Or the societies collapsed becasue of war or mismanagment.
Let's give ourselves as the human race some credit. India, built the first observatories. Some guy in Israel, realized that the Earth was not flat but curved. He went to two cities in Egypt to test out his theories. Then our buddy Pythagorias, and the Chairman of the Board, Leonardo DaVinci. He was ahead of his time with figuring out tanks, helicopters and aircraft, and not a bad artist either. <br>
<<Isn't it worth considering, looking at everything these civilizations had acheived? What these people developed still are ahead of us in some areas>>
Why couldn't we have done that on our own? <br>
Why is it so hard to blow off what the Bible says, for example, but we can believe that aliens came from space and helped ancient people out?
Anyway: . . . . <<aliens came to earth to teach us philosophy. Maybe angels are aliens. Who knows? It is highly likely that these advanced beings wanted to spread their knowledge. >>
Or the angels were thought of as aliens, and not messengers from God.
<<Toxic, your description of aliens is so stereotyped. That's the Hollywood, 'humanified' version of aliens. >>
Perhaps, but that what everyone who claims to have seen, or abducted by aliens, describes the aliens that way. <br>
<<Why should they resemble man in any way? The way we imagine the unknown is too human. They don't need to have two long 'legs' emerging from a 'waist'. Why should their central nervous system have to be in their head? >>
If the nervous system was not in a being's head, the risk of injury or death is increased greatly. It's easier to have the nervous system up and out of the way to avoid injury. Or if the central nervous system is located elsewhere in the body, it better have a strong defense against injury. But that defense would hinder movement and development. The being would either have to be quite small, and at risk from larger beings, or very large, but movement being a chore from being so heavy from these protections. Instead, just put the brain in the head and be done with it. <br>
<<Man is (nearly) always afraid of the unknown>>
And being alone is one of them. It's our collective need to be around others.
32,000,000,000 light years across!
<< The idea that we are the only planet in the entire universe that has forms of life is incredibly self-centered, in my opinion./ who are we to say that life can't exist away from home. That attittude is so typical. Humans put themselves at the centre of the universe... as usual. >>
Let me ask y'all something. Why is this self-centered? What IF that's the way it is? Why couldn't we just accept the fact that we are the only ones?
Is it arrogant to think we are the only ones, or is it that we can't handle the idea that we're all alone? If we beleive there is life elsewhere, it's just as easy that Earth is it. The rest of the universe was a big experiment that failed, except for Earth. <br>
<<The only planets we know enough about are the 9 that are in our solar system.>>
Many have been discovered in other solar systems, but they are too close to a star to sustain life, or too big for significant life to develop. By being too big, the gravity of a planet the size of Jupiter has a gravity too strong to have life develop into much more than bacteria.
And just think if there WAS an intelligent race out there, do you think God, Goddess, (your divine spirit here) or something has kept us away from each other for a reason? Look how much trouble we have just trying to get along with each other on THIS planet. How could we possibly get along with another planet without p***ing other off? <br>
<<Isn't it interesting how the ancient civilizations in Egypt, S America and Asia just sprang up from no where and then disappeared? Ever stopped to consider if these were really aliens come to earth, to teach everything they knew to this primitive world, and then left? >>
Look at the stuff we build now. The ancient pyrimids were built by hundreds of thousands of people working 16 hour days under brutal conditions and threat of death every day. Alot can be accomplished. They disapperaed because they were attacked by invading races, and people's. Or the societies collapsed becasue of war or mismanagment.
Let's give ourselves as the human race some credit. India, built the first observatories. Some guy in Israel, realized that the Earth was not flat but curved. He went to two cities in Egypt to test out his theories. Then our buddy Pythagorias, and the Chairman of the Board, Leonardo DaVinci. He was ahead of his time with figuring out tanks, helicopters and aircraft, and not a bad artist either. <br>
<<Isn't it worth considering, looking at everything these civilizations had acheived? What these people developed still are ahead of us in some areas>>
Why couldn't we have done that on our own? <br>
Why is it so hard to blow off what the Bible says, for example, but we can believe that aliens came from space and helped ancient people out?
Anyway: . . . . <<aliens came to earth to teach us philosophy. Maybe angels are aliens. Who knows? It is highly likely that these advanced beings wanted to spread their knowledge. >>
Or the angels were thought of as aliens, and not messengers from God.
<<Toxic, your description of aliens is so stereotyped. That's the Hollywood, 'humanified' version of aliens. >>
Perhaps, but that what everyone who claims to have seen, or abducted by aliens, describes the aliens that way. <br>
<<Why should they resemble man in any way? The way we imagine the unknown is too human. They don't need to have two long 'legs' emerging from a 'waist'. Why should their central nervous system have to be in their head? >>
If the nervous system was not in a being's head, the risk of injury or death is increased greatly. It's easier to have the nervous system up and out of the way to avoid injury. Or if the central nervous system is located elsewhere in the body, it better have a strong defense against injury. But that defense would hinder movement and development. The being would either have to be quite small, and at risk from larger beings, or very large, but movement being a chore from being so heavy from these protections. Instead, just put the brain in the head and be done with it. <br>
<<Man is (nearly) always afraid of the unknown>>
And being alone is one of them. It's our collective need to be around others.