The search for Intelligent Life

vilepagan Senior Eminence Grise Posts: 3,148	The search for Intelligent Life Jun 12, 2021 2:48:41 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vilepagan on Jun 12, 2021 2:48:41 GMT -8 Really sad that you guys have to ruin this thread with your anti-Biden psychoses. I guess maybe MDDad was right...

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The search for Intelligent Life Jun 12, 2021 5:31:38 GMT -8

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Post by davidsf on Jun 12, 2021 5:31:38 GMT -8

Getting us back on-topic,

Another article, this time from The Medium talks generally about the concept as it has been viewed through the ages:

Pop culture interest in aliens also seems to be mostly an artifact of the last 75 years —modern movies and books are littered with extraterrestrials — but in fact, interest in life on other planets goes back much farther. Many of the most distinguished thinkers of the Enlightenment era had a great interest in the possibility of alien life and wrote extensively about it. The 1700s was a period of widespread belief in life on other planets until several hoaxes in the nineteenth century made belief in extraterrestrial life unfashionable.

It then goes on to show historical figures and their thoughts on the topic.

After the Copernican Revolution in the 1500s and 1600s, Europeans realized that the universe was more complex than they had imagined. They also came to understand that Earth’s — and therefore humans’ — place in the cosmos was rather insignificant. As astronomers used new technology to investigate the sky, it became possible to imagine the Moon, Mars, and the rest of the solar system in detail. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were a period filled with breathtaking discoveries about space, culminating in the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781.

These scientific discoveries influenced the Enlightenment, an era in which thinkers questioned religious dogma and tried to think for themselves about all sorts of issues. Scientists like Isaac Newton had made the case that that the universe operates according to a set of universal rules, meaning that if the conditions for life existed on Earth, they could exist elsewhere.

Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that flowers taste better than shit.

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The search for Intelligent Life Jun 29, 2021 7:20:19 GMT -8

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Post by davidsf on Jun 29, 2021 7:20:19 GMT -8

I think this fits best, here, because this guy is the complete antithesis of intelligent life...

This might already be a thing, but it is the first I've heard of it.

Popular British Influencer Comes Out As ‘Transracial’ Korean

“While I recognise that a lot of people don’t understand how I identify, and may find it unusual—being Korean and feeling Korean is part of who I am and how I feel. And I will never allow a single woke person, bully or troll to take that away from me.

I have gone through extreme lifestyle changes to become who I am today and have lived in Korea, I eat Korean food everyday, use Korean skincare, have plastic surgery to look Korean and I speak the Korean language—all of this shapes me as a person and my identify as a non-binary Korean person.

These same woke people who preach about tolerance are the same people who send me death threats everyday, make up false rumours and threaten me or tell me to take my life.’

Despite all this and the difficulties I endure at the hands of these radical woke trolls, I will always celebrate who I am and identify as Korean and embrace the Korean culture. And I will always have a deep and profound respect for Korean culture and the Korean people, who I love and adore with all my heart.”

NOW, if I understand him correctly (and, believe me, that is by no means certain), it is the woke radical left giving him problems. I assume the right is only rolling their eyes at this moron....

Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that flowers taste better than shit.

mrright Senior Sage Posts: 392	The search for Intelligent Life Jul 7, 2021 18:10:21 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrright on Jul 7, 2021 18:10:21 GMT -8 i believe the aliens have been coming here , taking females..experimenting on them by impregnating them with lower life forms from other worlds. and now we are stuck with the results. todays libs

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The search for Intelligent Life Oct 5, 2021 9:47:04 GMT -8

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Post by davidsf on Oct 5, 2021 9:47:04 GMT -8

Not exactly on point in that I see no indication this asteroid has any life on it (never mind intelligent life), but we don't have folders here and I'm tired of searching for a more appropriate thread:

Mission to Change Motion of Hazardous Asteroid from Striking Earth to Happen by Nov. 23

NASA's "D.A.R.T." or Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission is happening this November, and it aims to change the motion or course of the potentially hazardous space rock from colliding with Earth. This means that an upcoming space rock is on a crash course to the planet, and NASA has set up a mission to change its trajectory.

the short story is, there is a huge asteroid (big enough to have it's own moon, apparently)b hurtling in ourndirection, so NASA intends to alter it's course instead of destroying it (á la Armageddon or Deep Impact)

Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that flowers taste better than shit.

Post by vilepagan on Jun 12, 2021 2:48:41 GMT -8

Post by davidsf on Jun 12, 2021 5:31:38 GMT -8

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Post by davidsf on Oct 5, 2021 9:47:04 GMT -8