Creston wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 23:51:
My wife and I had to put our cat to sleep today. She'd had a stroke over the weekend, and when we came home today, we found her lying on the ground, seemingly paralyzed in her hind legs.
She was 13 years old.
Bye Tabby. We will miss you.
Creston wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 23:51:
My wife and I had to put our cat to sleep today. She'd had a stroke over the weekend, and when we came home today, we found her lying on the ground, seemingly paralyzed in her hind legs.
She was 13 years old.
Bye Tabby. We will miss you.
Creston wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 23:51:
My wife and I had to put our cat to sleep today. She'd had a stroke over the weekend, and when we came home today, we found her lying on the ground, seemingly paralyzed in her hind legs.
She was 13 years old.
Bye Tabby. We will miss you.
InBlack wrote on Aug 18, 2015, 03:42:
Now I'm not saying that UFO phenomena == aliens, but ...
Creston wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 23:51:
My wife and I had to put our cat to sleep today. She'd had a stroke over the weekend, and when we came home today, we found her lying on the ground, seemingly paralyzed in her hind legs.
She was 13 years old.
Bye Tabby. We will miss you.
The Fermi paradox (or Fermi's paradox) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates, such as in Drake equation, of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial life civilizations and the lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations.
Cutter wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 18:07:HorrorScope wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 11:27:Cutter wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 11:10:
Nuclear war not occurring is not a forgone conclusion. My money is that it's still on and sooner rather than later. Probably before 2050. All signs show that as the tipping point for humanity.
So says man since the begging of time.... All signs point to the end of the world. Current Prophecy Win/Loss record: 0 - 100000000000
Deep down, man must want to see themselves expire.
My favorite is the 40-70 year old crowd talking down about their off-spring, lazy etc. News flash your grandfathers said the same thing about you and their grandfathers said the same thing about them. We do the same shit over and over. It's what we do.
No, this is different because the doomsday scenarios you're talking about were based solely on superstition/religious ferver. Basically everything good or bad is somehow attributable to the invisible sky wizard - and still is, sadly, for most people on this planet.
What I'm talking about is predicated on scientific fact. We can quantify a likely doomsday scenario based on the facts. Things have been getting worse since the industrial age began when you look at the totality of the net benefits and detriments of that age unfolding until right now. More recently we've seen things getting demonstrably worse on just about in every way imaginable. Economic inequality, overpopulation,exploitation, the environment, religious ferver and political extremism, international conflict, and most importantly, dwindling natural resources.
With the global population set to double by 2050 and things going the way they are it's not rocket surgery to see something has to give. Either we need global political change for the positive on all those fronts - unlikely. Or it will come to war - the more likely scenario. Why? Because war never changes.
ForgedReality wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 15:33:nin wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 14:37:ForgedReality wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 14:33:
Gross. I don't get how people can kiss their animals on the mouth. It's disgusting. It's even worse when people let their nasty dogs lick them all over the face and shit. EUCH! I don't even like my own spit on me, but some mangy mutt that sits around licking its asshole and eating its own shit all day? I'll pass, thanks. I hope that kid didn't come away with scurvy or tuberculosis or some shit. XD
Sounds like you don't need to be a pet owner then.
Oh, I love all my pets. I also don't let them lick my fucking face. They also don't belong on the couch or the bed unless they're a cat, because they're way cleaner. When's the last time you had to give a cat a bath because it was too stinky?
HorrorScope wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 11:27:Cutter wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 11:10:
Nuclear war not occurring is not a forgone conclusion. My money is that it's still on and sooner rather than later. Probably before 2050. All signs show that as the tipping point for humanity.
So says man since the begging of time.... All signs point to the end of the world. Current Prophecy Win/Loss record: 0 - 100000000000
Deep down, man must want to see themselves expire.
My favorite is the 40-70 year old crowd talking down about their off-spring, lazy etc. News flash your grandfathers said the same thing about you and their grandfathers said the same thing about them. We do the same shit over and over. It's what we do.
jdreyer wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 15:49:RedEye9 wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 14:00:
this is plagiarized from the hardforum, user kbrickley;
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Is there life in the rest of the Universe ... probably ... it is impossible to prove, but statistically you can argue for the presence of extraterrestrial life
Is there extraterrestrial life on Earth ... highly unlikely:
1. We are in a fairly isolated part of our Galaxy with no nearby Star Systems that seem to have anything approximating a habitable planet
2. We have only been announcing our presence here for less than a century and our Galaxy is big (the Universe even bigger) so it would be unlikely that someone (or many someones) would just stumble across us
3. There is no indication that faster than light travel is possible ... without that ability there is nobody going anywhere beyond the 10-20 year spheroid around their solar system
4. UFO sightings seem to have rocketed in the atomic age ... is that because Aliens care about our nuclear technology ... OR, much more likely, is it that governments started developing new spy technologies that they used the disguise of UFOs to hide behind and also that the paranoia of people faced with weapons of unthinkable power (with the capability to destroy their planet) channeled that paranoia into visions of alien spacecraft ...
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MY Take, the best part is All of this was said civilly, w/out calling anyone stupid or the inevitable "we do the same thing over and over again" comments.
RE: 1-3: This study on a technological society that traveled to other stars at a tenth the speed of light, then spent 500 years there to prepare for the next jump to the next system would spend about 50M years to colonize the milky way (assumes no technological improvements). Sounds like a long time, but the milky way is 13B years old so 50M years is only 0.3% of the existence of the galaxy. An alien civilization that developed sublight starflight on the far side of the galaxy during Earth's Paleocene epoch would be here already.
RE: 4: I would argue neither? Most UFO sightings were during the 40s, 50s, and 60s when there was less knowledge about aircraft flights and natural weather phenomenon. As we've understood more about flight, natural phenomenon, issues that can occur during flight, etc. the number of UFO sightings has drastically dropped off.
ForgedReality wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 15:33:nin wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 14:37:ForgedReality wrote on Aug 17, 2015, 14:33:
Gross. I don't get how people can kiss their animals on the mouth. It's disgusting. It's even worse when people let their nasty dogs lick them all over the face and shit. EUCH! I don't even like my own spit on me, but some mangy mutt that sits around licking its asshole and eating its own shit all day? I'll pass, thanks. I hope that kid didn't come away with scurvy or tuberculosis or some shit. XD
Sounds like you don't need to be a pet owner then.
Oh, I love all my pets. I also don't let them lick my fucking face. They also don't belong on the couch or the bed unless they're a cat, because they're way cleaner. When's the last time you had to give a cat a bath because it was too stinky?