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Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Started conversation Jul 25, 2004
hey
do you think that there are other lifeforms in this universe? or that there are other universes out there and that we are just one of a huge collection of large star bodies?
tell me what you think
cheers
ford prefect
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Jul 25, 2004
but are they like us or are they pure forms of energy? my teacher said that there are no otherbeings but us... i thins he is a load of crapola
cheers
ford
Other Beings?
Loup Dargent Posted Jul 26, 2004
Hmmm... Your teacher has obviously forgotten that encouraging people to use their brains is a good thing...
Even _if_ he was right [and how can he be 100% sure that there is no other life forms "out there" anyway?!], it's still a good exercise for the mind to look into theories regarding that subject...
Of course, when we talk about other beings/aliens, we think first of other planets... I personally tend to think of alternative dimensions/universes as well... I _might_ be completely wrong, but it's sure great fun looking into that area...
loup
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Jul 26, 2004
a whole other universe? this one is big enough! i think there are 'aliens' in this one... perhaps closer than we think... they live on RUPERT!! 
cheers
ford
Other Beings?
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Aug 9, 2004
I think, that as there are millions of potentially habitable planets in the universe, there are also potentially millions of other beings out there... 
Some *may* be energy beings, but we don't know... I do not think any have visited 
but even that is possible...
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Aug 9, 2004
ya, like ford! it could be your best friend... scary!
cheers
ford
Other Beings?
Zak T Duck Posted Aug 9, 2004
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'cos there's bugger all down here on Earth
Other Beings?
IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 9, 2004
Other life? Almost certainly. Other intelligent life? Weeeeell. If you look at what we currently understand of how we came to be where we are today with our intelligence and szelf awareness and so forth (and exclude the magic hand of God) then the chances of intelligent life developing seem to be pretty damn slim. The number of factors that have to be in place, the number of things that have to not happen and so forth is very large. Of course, it happened at least once so it can happen again. Who knows how much of a fluke we are?
Other Beings?
pedboy Posted Aug 9, 2004
Ictoan you consider humans to be intelligent? That is something I'm not to sure of.
Case in point , moi.
pedboy®
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Aug 9, 2004
heres proof that there is no intellegent life on earth
http://www.deviantart.com/view/9337822/
have fun!
cheers
ford
Other Beings?
a visitor to planet earth Posted Aug 9, 2004
Why do some humans think they are the only "intelligent" lifeforms in the universe?
Other Beings?
FordsTowel Posted Aug 9, 2004
Ford, Ford, Ford ...!
Haven't we learned anything during our travels?
Humans may only be the third most intelligent lifeforms on the planet, but they haven't done badly!
Here they are, sitting on an undistinguished mudball, near the end of an arm of an unpopular end of a galaxy, and through merely exploring their own world (yes, and the moon), they have worked out the most likely age of the universe, the probable number of dimensions, both the farthest of the far and the smallest of the small in terms of size, attributes, and connections!
Just getting to the point of accepting quarks, sight unseen, is a great advance; but, they have also postulated beyond their ability to see, and to create theories regarding black holes, white holes, quasars, pulsars, etc!!
I'd have to rate them at least marginally intelligent!
The only thing left to test them on is to see if they can come up with a valid 'Ultimate Question', given the answer '42'!
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Aug 10, 2004
whoa!? my towel can talk!
cheers
ford
Other Beings?
AngelStardust Posted Aug 16, 2004
Consider also that there may be parallel Earths in the same time, but with the results of alternative choices.
Other Beings?
Loup Dargent Posted Aug 16, 2004
Yep, I had that in mind as well when I mentioned alternative universes many postings ago...
Now, of course, some of the s could also be time machines from the future [or alternative futures] A2888616 ...
loup
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Aug 17, 2004
dude! you guys are getting pretty deep!
cheers
dead again ford
Other Beings?
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Aug 17, 2004
I would so love to have a time machine...
Jacques Vallee puts forward the alternate dimension view in his books about the alien visitors...
Other Beings?
Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! Posted Aug 17, 2004
me too, when would you want to go?
cheers
ford
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- 1: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Jul 25, 2004)
- 2: pedboy (Jul 25, 2004)
- 3: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Jul 25, 2004)
- 4: Loup Dargent (Jul 26, 2004)
- 5: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Jul 26, 2004)
- 6: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Aug 9, 2004)
- 7: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Aug 9, 2004)
- 8: Zak T Duck (Aug 9, 2004)
- 9: IctoanAWEWawi (Aug 9, 2004)
- 10: pedboy (Aug 9, 2004)
- 11: IctoanAWEWawi (Aug 9, 2004)
- 12: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Aug 9, 2004)
- 13: a visitor to planet earth (Aug 9, 2004)
- 14: FordsTowel (Aug 9, 2004)
- 15: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Aug 10, 2004)
- 16: AngelStardust (Aug 16, 2004)
- 17: Loup Dargent (Aug 16, 2004)
- 18: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Aug 17, 2004)
- 19: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Aug 17, 2004)
- 20: Ford_Prefect "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"Apocalypse 2006 REPRESENT! (Aug 17, 2004)
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