ResidentWeevil2077 Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 As I mentioned before in this thread, why would any one extraterrestrial species, intelligent of building and designing spacecraft capable of travelling light years, to find us? Why us? We're nothing special. The only circumstance under which I'd ever see an extraterrestrial species coming into contact with us is if they happened upon our planet by accident, as Abramul said, though star-faring. ALL Hollywood movies about extraterrestrials have one thing in common - a misrepresentation of how an extraterrestrial species would behave on our planet. How would they know if they can't breath the air we breath, or even if they wouldn't act violently toward us. While these kinds of movies are always entertaining for me, it is still only fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfubellydancer Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 I loved alien movies since I was a little girl, but I agree with rob, alien movies are simply a genre and don't necessarily show what WILL happen if aliens come across our planet. Like I said before, most Hollywood movies show aliens as naked grey guys with big heads, wearing no space suit whatsoever and somehow managing to live in our environment, even though that defies the laws of biology, because they could get sick from our diseases, even if oxygen/hydrogen/etc air doesn't hurt them. The whole hollywood alien ideas are messed up. Here's a hypothetical alien creature I've made up, for a drawing: nebula blimp. Though I'm not a biologist I'll try to explain the characteristics of this creature from what I imagine. This creature is shaped like a big ball with holes. Their ball form with holes allows them to live in the vacuum of space without problem. They "breath" in gases supplied by the nebula through their holes and that's their only energy source. They are hollow, and the membrane between inside and out is thin to allow the gases to reach all cells evenly without a circulatory system (blood). Because they only need gases to survive, they don't need water or have prey. They move by blowing waste gases out of these holes. They don't have brains or "guts", just skin cells, muscles cells, and nervous tissue evenly distributed on their body, so accidental amputation won't be fatal, because they regenerate lost parts. In fact if you cut one in half, both halves will create regenerate lost parts, so amputation is their method of asexual reproduction. You can kill one by blowing it up, or so that all cells would be destroyed somehow. They are blueish in color and semi-transparent. They are harmless, and also do not fear others because they have no natural enemies, only avoid possible explosion by detecting chemical compounds in the area. Anyone else have any alien ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarac Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 If you have checked videos i putted in my first post you could see in one of them that on some holy pictures in the background you can see some guy pointing to some object in the sky which,as they say is UFO...What that mean,that humans knew of UFO-s before? ...or? EDIT: I have corrected that ninja! , :biggrin: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja_lord666 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 'newed' :mellow: ...Grammar has hit a new low... The thing about cave paintings is that they are so generalised and simple that they could mean almost anything. The only reason they look like someone pointing to a spaceship is because the UFO people want them to. For all we know, that could be the first documented case of hemorrhoids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfubellydancer Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 It seems people forgot what UFO actually means. And unidentified Flying object could be anything, so long as its unidentified. A bird flying in a strange pattern could be a UFO, if people don't see that its a bird. A Frisbee thrown in the wrong way could be a UFO. A spy plane on radar could be a UFO, because the radar operators can't tell what it is. I could be a UFO if I flew out of a plane without a parachute, and someone a mile away couldn't tell that it was a falling woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja_lord666 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I could be a UFO if I flew out of a plane without a parachute, and someone a mile away couldn't tell that it was a falling woman.That wouldn't be very healthy for the baby... :D Yes, people have completely forgotten the UFO is an acronym and not a word, like RADAR or LASER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I could be a UFO if I flew out of a plane without a parachute, and someone a mile away couldn't tell that it was a falling woman.That wouldn't be very healthy for the baby... :D Yes, people have completely forgotten the UFO is an acronym and not a word, like RADAR or LASER.I believe the point being made is that once it is defined as a spaceship, airplane, or whatever it ceases to be a UFO by definition of the term. Meaning that UFO is only applicable in cases where you are unable to determine clearly what the flying object is, and your ability to determine what the object is does not necessarily have any implications other than someone being unable to determine what was flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_evrae Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Is there life out there? Almost certainly, from a statistical point of view. New extra-solar planets are being discovered at a faster and faster rate, since the people looking know what to look for now (wobbles in stars, etcetera). That will improve over the next decades, to the point that we will likely be able to detect earth-like, and smaller, bodies in orbit. Given the sheer scale of the universe, it is almost certain that life has developed elsewhere. Not all of it will be 'intelligent' mind you. We have no real way of knowing the odds of life, or intelligence, developing, as a single example isnt enough to work on. What amuses me is the assumption that if aliens visit they would be super intelligent - how many people driving cars would be remotely capable of building, far less designing, one? What also interests me is the concept of intelligence on different levels. When it comes down to it, our intelligence consists of the interactions between the different parts of our brain and the surroundings. In our case this happens on the scale of electrons, which perform the processes that we call intelligence. Could it be that those same processes could happen in different mediums, on different scales? Could you describe an ant colony as a single intelligent entity, with ants taking the place of the electrons in our minds? Could things work on even larger scales, the vast interactions between the stars and galaxies over billions of years? You can view our intelligence as, ultimately, physical interactions. And even if there were other forms of intellince, would we be able to detect them, or even know that they are possible? You can even view societies as indivual entities, interacting in various ways. Well, I find it intersing anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResidentWeevil2077 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Like I had said before on this matter, I do believe, without a shred of doubt, that life most certainly exists outside of our solar system. However, the ideas movie-makers get for their alien/sci-fi flicks are most certainly fictious, but as I also said, it makes for far better entertainment value to the movie-goer 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecalMirror Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 As I mentioned before in this thread, why would any one extraterrestrial species, intelligent of building and designing spacecraft capable of travelling light years, to find us? Why us? We're nothing special. The only circumstance under which I'd ever see an extraterrestrial species coming into contact with us is if they happened upon our planet by accident, as Abramul said, though star-faring.You miss a very important thing here. Why the heck are WE looking to the sky in hope of seeing a tiny bit of some spacecraft? We can be an interesting subject to aliens just as much as they are to us. They can't know if we are anything special before they have seen us. Besides, your "special" could be quite different from what they consider special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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