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- OptionalPirate, on 08/23/2008, -8/+441I think the aliens found out about 4chan.
- mechfluff, on 08/23/2008, -29/+330Oh noes! Where did I put my tin foil hat?
- Orion1004, on 08/23/2008, -8/+199We're not quarantined- there's just a huge amount of space out there and a trillion galaxies and a human-centric timespan limitation. Patience!
- sjbdallas, on 08/23/2008, -2/+162Expecting the government, military, or scientists to be in on the quarantine is probably the most far-fetched part of the whole theory. My bet is the aliens themselves decided to stay away until we get our ***** together or die off.
- Peko, on 08/23/2008, -5/+121You are part of the initial disinformation wave. Don't deny it. 4chan is obviously the first prong of the alien indoctrination educational memeprobe. Run by aliens for the preparation of our youngest and most dynamic minds to prepare us properly for tentacle porn, surprisebuttsecks.
I'll show my boobs to the first digger who diggs me up by 23.
- Kumah, on 08/24/2008, -1/+92you're at 23 now. ***** or gtfo.
- Egroh08, on 08/23/2008, -17/+102Come on... everyone knows that our planet is one big Truman Show for Aliens. They're probably laughing at us for worshiping some bloke that walks on water and can turn water into wine. The key is to keep them interested. Once ratings start to decline, it's all too obvious what will come of our farce of a TV show -- it'll get canned. Annihilation? Most likely. This make any sense? If yes, then lay off the acid. If no, then borrow someone's acid.
- DAC1138, on 08/24/2008, -3/+73Buried because tin foil isn't used anymore. It's ALUMINUM foil. Tin foil was phased out in the early 1900s.
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -8/+77What a dumb ***** article. Almost as bad as Cosmopolitan. Holy ***** Digg.
- Protonz, on 08/23/2008, -1/+59You must have missed this part of the article:
"Obviously, our governments are using the junk as a deflection shield to prevent alien messages and craft from getting through"
Well, I'm convinced. - str1fe, on 08/24/2008, -1/+55I made 22 additional accounts to get you up to where you are. ***** or gtfo.
- 1ncu3us, on 08/23/2008, -3/+55Maybe we have to show them that we're worth contacting.. I mean come on.. we still kill each other.. let each other stave and go thirsty,, and destroy the only planet we live on.. We as a human race haven't even learned these "basic" things yet.. to them, maybe we're not worth it
- inactive, on 08/24/2008, -3/+54OMG, EARTH GOT CANCELED.
- atchon, on 08/24/2008, -2/+47maybe it is a family heirloom tinfoil hat which has been passed down.
- mklopez, on 08/23/2008, -3/+46Wow, I did not know that Tiger Woods can turn water into wine!
- snareguy17, on 08/23/2008, -4/+44It's ***** Xenu, man.
- lordsteve, on 08/24/2008, -0/+40Well, that's too bad 'cause tin foil is the only thing that works against aliens. Aluminum actually amplifies the effects. Ever wonder exactly WHY tin was phased out? The government WANTS us using Aluminum.
- loyx, on 08/24/2008, -1/+40"And why aren't we sending rockets all over the solar system?" Maybe it costs a ton of money? Just a thought.
- badtiki, on 08/23/2008, -3/+43If you think of this in a different perspective, would you give a gun to a monkey? no, cause the monkey is smart enough to figure out how to pull the trigger and may shoot you but dumb enough to not understand why its wrong. So next time someone asks why aliens haven't come to see us tell them its cause we're all a bunch of stinkin apes!
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+39Some dude's razor told me a different reason.
- batmanz, on 08/23/2008, -1/+38Reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide. We're located in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy.
- amr05h, on 08/24/2008, -0/+33Everyone blames ***** on the Hadron Collider
- starscream45, on 08/24/2008, -3/+35Oh crap, you've figured it out, now we gotta go talk to the Joosian network heads on planet Fognl and try to convince them to not cancel Earth.
Maybe we can get some photos of them sucking on each others' "jagons" and sticking their fingers in each others "thrushers." Then maybe we can blackmail them with the photos into not canceling Earth. Just sayin'. - JoeBaynham, on 08/23/2008, -0/+30Maybe there is some space law preventing them from interfering with our development until we discover aliens ourselves. Now after saying that I realize how crazy that sounded.
- rebrad, on 08/23/2008, -6/+34I knew it. I just knew it.
- LeviTheSmith, on 08/24/2008, -4/+31Ohh yeah suck my jaygon
- LeeSoong, on 08/24/2008, -0/+25Because humans are made of meat - Who wants to talk to meat?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html - DivineMonkey, on 08/24/2008, -1/+25Can't believe i just read that whole ***** article.
- redsoxmb545, on 08/24/2008, -2/+24"Is the Earth Quarantined???"
...No. - paul2802, on 08/23/2008, -0/+21maybe they are waiting for us to get warp technology.
- xDynaBlade, on 08/24/2008, -6/+25***** Bush!
- philipl411, on 08/24/2008, -0/+19Here is another opinion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox - expert01, on 08/24/2008, -0/+19Please, they saw those and thought "My goodness, these people produce their own food! We must harvest this resource!"
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/24/2008, -1/+20Until we meet aliens -- discussing this topic will seem ***** crazy to most people.
However, when we find that earth-like planets are actually pretty common in the Universe, and from that we can assume that there would be life. The fact that there are a billion to a trillion stars in an average Universe means that it should have at least come across a half dozen superior races at least, if not more.
Now, we've had radio communications for about 100 years -- that is an eyeblink of time. In another 20, our digital use of the bandwidth and compression, will make sure we have zero analog signals that could carry into space.
The fact that we have not met any aliens on the record, would lead me to think there is a policy of not "upsetting the primitives." Really, if we had some superior race, we'd be alternating between blaming them for the weather and begging for them to cure cancer. It would be debilitating to most of our culture, and if they didn't interfere, we'd have Sunday preachers raising money telling us "what the aliens would want." Come one, who doesn't know human nature?
Of course our government would lie to us and we'd be getting the same picture if there were aliens, or if we had a fricken' convention of aliens.
I'd say it is more like a blockade. - slapded, on 08/24/2008, -0/+18i stepped in dog ***** today. ***** the atomsmasher
- BradOFarrell, on 08/23/2008, -2/+20God, some of the Gawker sites have the most inane articles.
io9: "Ridiculous tinfoil hat theories presented under the assumption that they're tongue-in-cheek!"
Consumerist: "Here's a cool hack to save 28 goddamn cents on toothpaste!"
Gawker: "Real journalists have no integrity, and neither do we, but it's cool because we're all ironic and self-aware! Heh."
Fleshbot: "Hey girlz here's a simple six step guide to getting HPV!" - expert01, on 08/24/2008, -0/+16That's the sort of thing a man not wearing a foil hat that's under brain control WOULD say!
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+16Our chances of getting out of kindergarten on our own ain't to good !
- chaosblade77, on 08/24/2008, -0/+15Digging for moobs?
- OtterStratton, on 08/24/2008, -4/+19@FreshPineScent
Buried for use of explanation to bury. - reland1, on 08/24/2008, -0/+15Good idea for a sci-fi book.
- rinote, on 08/24/2008, -0/+14But we're mostly harmless. :(
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -2/+17If you came across the ***** we're standing in, would you stop by ?
- Kcaj, on 08/24/2008, -1/+14While I am absolutely certain of "alien" life and forces at work in dimensions "above" what the 5 (or 6) human senses are capable of comprehending, I am unable to imagine that we will ever come across "intelligent aliens" that exist (or choose to manifest) as entities within our range of comprehension.
The chance that a planet supports life elsewhere in the universe is staggering. However, life is subject to the complications of evolution. Simple organisms are a garuntee. More advanced civilizations and cultures are probably an extreme rarity. Given the prospect that some DO exist, the majority of their population is probably occupied by self-aware technologies, technological "mechanical" representations/remnants of organisms that have implanted themselves as so (to achieve semi-immortality and escape the confines of a living/dying body), and some form of preserved biological life from the initial stages of evolution on the planet (either for food/farming purposes for those still being born in to organic bodies, or for archival/entertainment/exposition/labor purposes).
The problem is, there are only three states an extra-terrestrial (and "third dimension capable") system can exist:
1.) Past - Any system that is still evolving in to civilizations, intelligence, self-awareness, etc... these would be the majority of planets that possibly contain life. Possibly stuck in a perpetual state of animalism, unable to obtain cognitivity and consciousness on even the lowly level of humans.
This system, would be unable to contact us, for obvious reasons, and offer very little to us. Any organisms still in what we would consider "cave man" or even "dark ages" levels of intelligence, technological and/or civilization advancement, would belong in this category, and suffar the same fate.
2.) On Par - Any system that exists elsewhere in the universe that is around our level of advancement is going through the same problems we are trying to find life elsewhere. This is a very dangerous stage, as we have already almost caused several apocalypse scenarios for ourselves. Other organisms most likely go through the same trial-and-error process trying to become a more advanced civilization than we currently are.
It is very likely we may discover planets that have clues on them that life, even technologically advanced and civilized life, once existed. Sadly though, some of these clues may be irradiated atmospheres or burning temperatures with only structural main-stays still observable.
3.) Future - Any system that represents human technological and civilized advancement beyond our current scope (which may unveil quantum singularity like phenomenon) is most likely able to observe us in some manner from afar. They could also establish communication at any time, and may have already done so previously. Their mechanisms for exploration, communication, etc. probably do NOT include "go to this location physically".
Rather, such an advanced system probably is deeply involved in quantum mechanics, and could send us messages through mechanisms which we are unable to recieve currently. Their effect on us, would be a mere "echo", similar (and maybe even not-so-different) than how life forms/forces of a higher dimension attempt to interact with us.
A possibly scenario, is that humans are the only intelligent life forms that may ever exist. If you buy in to this theory, let me propose to you a situation:
If we are the ONLY life forms, ever to exist, we must have a great destiny before us, and some kind of special place in the universe. This considered, we will one day exhaust our planet of resources for energy. We will even exhaust our sun and our entire solar system... for materials, energy, etc.
Consider something like a matroska brain or dyson sphere built around our sun to harvest constant energy... at this point, quantum computing is highly advanced. "Humans" and even the animals we currently experience, would be almost unrecognizable. At this point, our civilization could run a "simulation" of reality and existance, on a multi-dimensional scale that includes all possible variations, by only really making changes to a few essential variables.
The reasons for doing so are numerous... perhaps some organisms wish to keep consciousness through means of implanting themselves in civilizations. Some may be for entertainment, the way we currently experience video games (except, reality-consuming entirely). Others, however, may do so for research and study purposes, or simply because they CAN.
With this in mind, you can never be sure that you aren't just part of a simulation somewhere in the universe (perhaps right here, in the distant future). You may not even really have free-will, your actions may just be the product of several influential variables and circumstances while you experience the illusion of "free-will"... or you may be just "replaying" what you originally, once did.
If such simulations are possible, then there is possibly a big chance we are experiencing such a simulation right now.
If they are impossible, then certainly something *close-to-but-not-quite* is possible, and we may even be the result of such an inferior calculation/attempt to simulate reality.
Interesting to ponder... - Risingashes, on 08/24/2008, -3/+16God was made up in order to explain an unexplainable universe and to qwell the crushing fear of a certain death.
Aliens are the byproduct of the question "If life exists here, should it not exist elsewhere?". It makes sense to people that in a universe that is next to infinite, a large number of lifeforms must exist based on random chance even if conditions for life on planets are rare. In an infinite universe it makes sense to assume that out of all those lifeforms many of them would evolve through the same process of natural selection to become sentient tool users and shapers. It makes sense to then assume that each of these higher species would be at many different points along their technological progress and would as such wish to make contact with other species.
The problems come when you consider that technology of any kind may never be able to significantly reduce the barrier of light speed travel, or altertime, or utilize any from of theorized 'warp gate' travel. Also any sentinent beings may have formed a society that shuns technology, or expansion. Or by some fluke we are the most advanced species. Or that the universe is simply too large for any advanced species regardless of technology to be able to contact or find us.
In short: God could be real. Aliens could be real. What people doubt is the version of God heralded by humans (there is an obvious equal distrust of people claiming to know aliens). The reason for this should be clear- people are untrustworthy, people lie, people serve their own self interest. Believing in the current incarnations of the divine is pure gullibility, but so is denying any kind of metaphysical being or power outright. The same could be said for any claims regarding aliens. - reddikilowatt, on 08/24/2008, -0/+12The Prime Directive, or Brannigin's law.
- KlassyGuy, on 08/24/2008, -1/+13No matter the material, it has been found that if you wear an (insert metal here) hat it amplifies any signals including, but not limited to BrAiN CoNtRoL waves...ZOMG!
- MikeSD34, on 08/24/2008, -0/+11There will be no interference with pre-warp cultures. We're simply not ready to be out there yet.
- FreshPineSent, on 08/24/2008, -9/+20Buried for use of explanation for bury.
- fasda, on 08/24/2008, -1/+11my bet if there are any very advanced aliens out there who have heard us yelling on huge parts of the EM spectrum their religion forbids them from acknowledging we exist
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