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- Dumbledorito, on 07/29/2008, -8/+280"Hey."
"Hey."
"Got warp drive, or something?"
"Nope. You?"
"Nope."
"That's too bad. Our world is kinda *****."
"Ours, too."
"Want to trade porn?"
"Why not?" - SirVizor, on 07/29/2008, -6/+94Real tentacle porn ftw...
- inactive, on 07/29/2008, -9/+67There are a lot of other intelligent species here on Earth besides humans, that we don’t generally regard as such
- PopASquatt, on 07/29/2008, -16/+73I can only picture the first intergalactic ambassador meetings.
"Do you believe in god?"
"-Yes."
"Do you believe in my god?"
"-No."
*BANG*
"My god has got a bigger dick then your god!"
-George Carlin. - Rikkochet, on 07/29/2008, -1/+55We'll reverse the polarity of something and use our phase emitters. Obviously.
- DontThinkSo, on 07/29/2008, -1/+37So... how are we going to get around this whole faster-than-light-communication thing?
- YodaJones, on 07/29/2008, -5/+36If there is intelligent life out there you can be sure they will avoid this place like the plague.
- fyngyrz, on 07/30/2008, -0/+30See, what is funny about earthly tentacle porn is, if you've ever actually felt a tentacle of a live octopus or squid (and yes, I have), they don't have any solidity to them; squeeze and they squish like a loose bag of water. So the whole fantasy of tentacles "penetrating" and "filling" is silly; they couldn't possibly expand against the pressure of the surrounding muscle tissue. Find one of those videos of a large octopus escaping a tank through a one-inch hole and you'll get the idea of just how squishy these creatures really are. Octopus and squid tentacles are strong in the sense that they won't break easily if they are stretched, that's why the whole sucker thing works; but they squish like crazy.
Sorry about that. :) - kurejibitch, on 07/29/2008, -3/+31As a huge Carl Sagan fan, this fills my heart with joy (and skepticism at the ready!) Some of the most intelligent, thoughtful, skeptic and passionately, unbelievably smart scientists of the world today (and of yesterday's) never hid the fact that the mathematical and biological possibility of life on other planets -- at least some 'intelligent', and most far more advanced than ours because of the times they must have formed and the fact that if they were even 100 years behind us, we'd never speak to them -- was astronomically high. I'm not just talking about books like 'Contact', either.
I am as theoretically certain as I can be (without belief, and without religious dogma, and a feverish want for hard evidence only) that there must be other life out there, ahead of us, and that if they're anywhere near as curious as we are, they're going to search us out, even if it means pulling out archaic radio technology. The alternative is just as wondrous and meaningful, though: that we are the only life -- intelligent life, anyhow -- in the entire Universe. How sobering. How wonderful! And it could be -- the building blocks of life seem to have formed here under almost impossible circumstances. But they only had to happen once, and then, it's true that they could happen again...
Anyways, I hope they send us Math. Something universal, discernible. And I hope they are not monkeyish, and I hope they know peace better than we do. And I hope they're out there, and I hope they're listening. - davidwasman, on 07/29/2008, -11/+34Hmm...I am confused. This isn't a Top 10, a lame stupid 4channy picture, a cute animal, a Break video of someone getting hit in the nuts, a Ron Paul story, or an Apple bashing.
HOLY CRAP! It's a real story with substance! ON DIGG!! Welcome back, my old friend.
Anyway, it won't happen. Bush will kill them for having WMDs. I fear the closest thing in my lifetime we will ever have to Roddenberry's dream is VirginGalactic's ship. - Waiting2awake, on 07/29/2008, -8/+27I agree 100%, even if we managed to make contact with another species - what makes anyone think we would act any nicer to them than we have the other species we share this world with?
- SilverBlade2k, on 07/29/2008, -3/+21How can we possibly try to contact/communicate with aliens when we can't even keep things straight on earth? Why would aliens want to contact humans when they see that we are still in the "kill or be killed" mindset?
- floejoe, on 07/30/2008, -0/+16The Intergalactic Holographic Imagery Association forbids interstellar trading of copyrighted materials.
- Lith25, on 07/29/2008, -1/+15what makes anyone think they would act any nicer to us than we have to other species?
- fyngyrz, on 07/30/2008, -2/+16It's full of people. And people are stupid.
- Dumbledorito, on 07/29/2008, -7/+21Well, if it's only by radio, we can't invade them or hunt them for food.
I guess if we let Don Imus have a crack at the transmitter, that could be construed as an act of war... - Hetman, on 07/29/2008, -1/+15Maybe that does not go away and aliens are in the kill or be killed mindset also. Just because your technology advances does not mean your morality advances at the same pace. One would hope so. But we have no proof of it.
- leerayIG88, on 07/29/2008, -2/+16X3N0000!
- YorickBrown, on 07/29/2008, -1/+14How exactly can you predict that? It isn't like aliens have laid out some scavenger hunt to their home world. I mean I guess because of our space travels are only expanding. But really, I am hoping to see something before I leave this world.
- PhantomZmoove, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12Shhhh! They might not know any better and just come here out of curiosity.
- inactive, on 07/29/2008, -5/+17Real gay tentacle porn ftw...
- pilot3033, on 07/29/2008, -1/+13make some ***** up
- theguesser10, on 07/30/2008, -0/+11fyngyrz, that was hotter than any tentacle porn I've ever seen. Ever.
- VSKBadCRC, on 07/30/2008, -0/+10***** the IHIA!
- textrant, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10They would smell bad.
- carnytrash, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10chemical
electromagnetic waves
Probably a lot more, too. - ryleyleckie, on 07/30/2008, -2/+12you're kidding, right?
- Louis11, on 07/30/2008, -0/+9"Is they truly intelligent . . ."
Oh the irony. - paradox4190, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10Cut through the folds in the space-time continuum.
- tbranham, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10What, /proper/ *****?
- neocr0n, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10Apparently our broadcasts have been powerfull enough to go into space for only about 5 decades. In that time they have reached just a handful of the closest stars to us. If for example intelligent life lived within our own galaxy but was on the other side, it would take 100,000 years for our broadcasts to reach them. Maybe in two decades extra terrestrial life will pick up our broadcasts or maybe we will scan for and find a planet that resembles earth enough that it will have a good chance of life but any kind of contact and communication is a long long way off.
- jcl777, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10Uhhh, is that last sentence a typo? Surely that doesn’t mean we _shouldn't_ look for the answers.
- saranagati, on 07/30/2008, -0/+8I think what the article meant was we might not even realize they're alive. They could look like rocks and communicate via very small tremors in the ground.
- Paranoidmarvin, on 07/29/2008, -8/+16I, for one...
- Detry, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9I'm not really sure I want to meet a hydrogen chloride or sulfur based life form...
- staffa, on 07/30/2008, -0/+8I think we will find that life is going to be ridiculously common. And by life, I mostly mean the simplest stuff, microorganisms. I think for a long time we will be surprised where we find it. I wouldn't be too shocked it we found different forms of microorganisms on Mars, Venus, a few of the larger moons and even the Gas Giants themselves.
I would be shocked if many extra solar planets didn't have microorganisms.
I think complex life will also be common. I think it is unlikely to be found anywhere else in our solar system, but I don't think it's impossible for it to exist in the gas giants and some of the larger moons around the gas giants. Outside our solar system, I think it will be quite common.
I think intelligent life will be very rare. By intelligent I mean around our level of intelligence. Complex language, self aware, etc. Which means that it could exist at any level of technology between stone age to significantly beyond our level of technology. I base this one the thought that Earth has had complex life for some billion years and intelligent life for only the last 100,000. That is about 1/10 of 1% of it's history. We go another 100,000 years and I think we will either evolve beyond the scope of this level of intelligence or we will cease to exist as a species due to a die off.
Thus the ratio of time that a planet hosts complex life with our level of intelligent life is very small.
I do think it will exist though and the first evidence we will have of it will be an advanced race, only because its much easier to see a very powerfully broadcast radio signal then a camp fire surrounded by stone age warriors.
I have strong doubts about the feasibility of traveling between stars. I think if it were possible, we would be a slave race of a technology superior race or at least a puppet state in semi benevolent galactic federation. I find it highly unlikely that we will either be the first race to develop the technology to travel the stars or that all other races that have developed have chosen not to contact us.
I know if we had the technology we would be out there in spades and making a mess of it and having a hell of a lot of fun doing it. - infinitus64, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9two words Ray guns
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 07/30/2008, -0/+7He knows because he's tried!
- Paulish, on 07/30/2008, -0/+7If I remember correctly, the plague did not avoid us. In fact it killed a whole ***** lot of people...
Oh, now I get it. - Louis11, on 07/30/2008, -0/+7Couldn't be, the world ends in 2012.
- Lucifugerising, on 07/29/2008, -2/+9and there it is.
- staffa, on 07/30/2008, -0/+7If you define intelligent as being incurious and extremely risk averse, then yes, I suppose so.
It is possible for a truly intelligent species to be as you described, but it is not required and in fact highly unlikely. If Evolution is an accurate model for how a species gains intelligence, then curiosity and taking individual risks are both very important to a species acquiring intelligence.
You don't learn anything by not trying new things. - SIRBERUS, on 07/29/2008, -9/+16That's weird because I believe the universal litmus test of an intelligent society is the understanding that an efficient way to receive nutrients is by consuming other beings.
You had better hope we don't run into intelligent soy-based life, or you are *****, hippie. - Louis11, on 07/30/2008, -1/+8I ***** hate idiots on Digg who always try and make things political.
- Rudegar, on 07/29/2008, -1/+8so no space travel before we stop all wars end hunger and make our beds? ;S
- thomsonr, on 07/29/2008, -1/+8It would be nice if we could get past eating other "less beings". After all we are all genetically related. Unfortunately I still like my steak.
Hopefully meat will be able to be synthesized ala the Star Trek World. The first steps have already been taken. - ABadPerson, on 07/29/2008, -1/+7I think they would be blocking Earth's messages since we just keep spamming them with our tv and radio shows non-stop.
- Zarokima, on 07/30/2008, -0/+6No, no there is not. Astrology is based on all of *****, where as astronomy is actually a scientific field.
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