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Post by Mr42 on Sept 12, 2014 18:36:33 GMT
Obviously not the green googly eyed type seen everywhere on cartoons and drawings and stuff, but, actual real life intelligent life forms on other planets somewhere out there in the distance that is too far to even comprehend. I actually think there are, there HAS to be, something, somewhere else, moving around, 'living', 'breathing' or whatever the equivalents would be on other planets.
Maybe I just like to think there are, but, it's got to be way too selfish and self-centred to think we are and can be the ONLY actual living beings in the entire universe... what say you?
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Post by courage on Sept 12, 2014 20:32:55 GMT
Yes but I think it's probably nothing like we could ever imagine... If that makes sense
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 12, 2014 22:21:07 GMT
Even if it's just small globules of weird shit moving around like slugs, there's gotta be SOMETHING else out there.
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Post by sellotapethecat on Sept 12, 2014 22:56:40 GMT
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 12, 2014 23:05:20 GMT
them things are awesome... there's a longer documentary about them.
also, there's an immense swiss black metal band called tardigrada
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Post by sellotapethecat on Sept 12, 2014 23:11:50 GMT
Both made of awesomeness. There is no grim smiley!
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 12, 2014 23:14:21 GMT
Am sure I'll add more over the weekend.
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Post by courage on Sept 13, 2014 9:29:52 GMT
Thanks. Now I can't drink water and I'm going to die.
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Post by sellotapethecat on Sept 13, 2014 17:22:13 GMT
courage haha this article linked to all the horrible stuff that naturally lives on your face. Been itching ever since. Eurgh.
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Post by sellotapethecat on Sept 15, 2014 21:37:31 GMT
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Post by sellotapethecat on Sept 15, 2014 22:17:21 GMT
That's not just one creature, it's a colony of thousands of individual organisms called zooids. Aliens.
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Post by mulkington on Sept 20, 2014 14:37:42 GMT
I would like to think so. I think it would be wrong to assume we are the only life in the whole universe. This sort of thing has always been an interesting subject for me, however people do dismiss it as nonsense believing that whatever life would not have required technology for such a a journey to Earth. However you also have to think how advanced whatever other races out there could be. Like AREA 51, I sound like captain obvious here but there is definitely something crafty going on there. Anyway sound like a bit of space cadet I know but hey
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Post by hooch on Sept 22, 2014 21:27:00 GMT
Personally I like the idea that we are not alone. I'm not very good at "odds" though. In my head it seems like good sense that the universe is huge and odds are there must be something else living in it. However, if you think about it, the odds of everything that happened to make us be here today are infinitesimally small, so what are the odds of it happening twice?
Odds.
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Post by actthegoat on Sept 23, 2014 3:39:30 GMT
Yes definitely some kind of life. There are potentially billions of other planets.
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Post by actthegoat on Sept 23, 2014 3:40:47 GMT
Also, when I was at school Dwarf Planets hadn't even been discovered! That's crazy.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 23, 2014 9:24:29 GMT
There is not a doubt in my mind as to whether aliens exist. And I don't think we're too far away from discovering them as well. As what has been mentioned above ~ the idea of them being little greet dudes with big heads an massive eyes is a tad optimistic, I believe it is a little arrogant to dismiss all life on other planets.
Just look at how frequently we hear about new planets being discovered. It's not even front page news anymore.
I can't wait for that day! :-)
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Post by courage on Sept 23, 2014 9:53:28 GMT
Yeah but hooch is saying the fact we are here us such a tenny weeny chance. Everyting had to be perfect distance from everyting else and perfect temperature. But then I guess they still dong know how the first organism came to be. So maybe it came on a meteor heh.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 23, 2014 10:15:58 GMT
Yeah I get all that, but like I say, the amount of other exoplanets that have been discovered in the last 5 years in insane. Just think about how big the Universe is ~ we don't have the brain power to even understand the sheer size of it. And all the millions and millions of stars in our Galaxy alone.. I dunno. I just personally believe that the chances are pretty high. www.space.com/18790-habitable-exoplanets-catalog-photos.htmlEdit : Plus there could be life on other planets that don't need the gasses and ecosystem we need to survive. So it wouldn't have to be as critically timed, or as perfect a distance from their sun..
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 23, 2014 10:33:36 GMT
Also, when I was at school Dwarf Planets hadn't even been discovered! That's crazy. When I was at school, dwarves weren't invented! I did see something about Dwarf Planets for the first time a couple days ago, well interesting and weird, I'm gonna do some more reading up about it.
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 23, 2014 10:40:30 GMT
The odds of what has happened on earth are so ridiculously small, but if you think about how many billions of planets there are, even the smallest of odds gives opportunity for at least a couple of them to even have *something*. It doesn't even necessarily have to be that parallel universe, like in Fringe, or something weird and 'alternative' like Futurama, but, even if it's just little weird animals like the totally bonkers shit you see at the bottom of the sea, there's got to be something. Cells adapt to their surrounding, so it might not necessarily be anything that needs to 'breathe' 'oxygen', as such, there could be another way of supporting life on a different planet, that wouldn't be possible for us, in our atmosphere.
Probably.. heh, I'm not a scientist, or a Brian Cox, but it sounds logical at least. That's all I can base assumptions on really, because, well, anything and everything to do with space and other galaxies and planets and all of that is just too insane for my brain to compute and comprehend.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 23, 2014 10:45:49 GMT
Exactly.
We have things that live at the bottom of the ocean near vents that bellow out water well above boiling point, we have insects and marine life that can live in waters highly (naturally) contaminated with acids. (Got both them from episodes of Blue Planet :-) ).
What I'm trying to say is things adapt and work with their surroundings.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 23, 2014 10:53:24 GMT
To quote Jurassic Park ( Mr42) ~ Life finds a way :-)
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Post by Mr42 on Sept 23, 2014 10:55:02 GMT
Haha... I TOTALLY need to watch it! and then watch The Blue Planet again for about the tenth time. Best documentaries series ever.
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Post by joebassdude on Sept 23, 2014 10:57:59 GMT
Best documentaries series ever. Totally!
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Post by actthegoat on Sept 23, 2014 18:30:39 GMT
In just one image taken from the Hubble Ultra there are 10,000 galaxies visible. We live in one galaxy with 8 major planets. Wow. Someone do some sums!
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