Originally posted by guitarsjm
if we accept that there ARE real alien craft that have and are, for lack of a better term, 'visiting', whatever they 'call' or refer to as,
science, physics, mathematics.. must be SO damned advanced, millenina pasted where we are, that it would not make sense.
That is a big enough
"IF", and even if we accept that unproven theory, why should the be much more advanced than us?
Were the Portuguese sailors more advanced than the Japanese sailors when we first visited Japan in the XVI century? The only difference was the type
of ship we had, that was capable of navigate in all kinds of weather regardless of the direction of the winds, and the idea of creating new trade
routes.
We were only more advanced in navigation, that is why we reached them first.
That could be the case with the hypothetic aliens that could visit us.
They can be more advanced in space travel but they can be less advanced in other things.
the probability of great differences in science, math, physics and technology i would think are more the possiblilty...
I don't see why
the proportion between the perimeter of a circumference and its radius is not the same in all universe or how the sum of four square angles do not
make the equivalent of 360ยบ. Some things can be universal, they may be represented in different ways but they are the same, like an inch is 25.4
mm.
why then, are descriptions of aliens so physically different from us? i put this to you. if they, the aliens, are as physically different as
described... then all else must be as well. a lightbulb here, does not mean that there is a lightbulb as we know it, on some other planet... light
source... yes.. but nothing like we know it to be. get the point? think OUTSIDE of earth.
The descriptions may be of some things very
different from us, but first you must believe that the descriptions are true, then you must accept that the description corresponds to the real object
and was not altered by something (the description of an astronaut or a cosmonaut is different from that of an Australian Aborigine, but both are human
beings), etc.
I don't see why things
must be different, they can be different, the are probably different, but there is nothing that I know that forces them
to be different.
And back on topic, yes, that radio transmission could perfectly be an alien communication, but trying to hear words in it I think is going a bit to
far.
still wana play
with this sound in another program like cool edit. 
