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Originally posted by Zeta Reticulan
reply to post by 19872012
but got into transhumanism and breeded out their emotions and sexuality until they became the ugly clones
I wouldn't say greys are ugly
Originally posted by Gainsayer
The evolutionary idea is interesting, but doesn't quite add up. Humans are taller today than ever, and we continue to grow bigger.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
Originally posted by Gainsayer
The evolutionary idea is interesting, but doesn't quite add up. Humans are taller today than ever, and we continue to grow bigger.
If you are to continue with the line of thought that genetics has nothing to do with it, and the human race is getting taller, then this has to do with diet, but if you were to only eat what you need to sustain you, it might be possible that the following generations would be smaller and thinner.
The report, Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index (BMI) 1960-2002: United States, shows that the average height of a man aged 20-74 years increased from just over 5'8" in 1960 to 5'9½" in 2002, while the average height of a woman the same age increased from slightly over 5'3" 1960 to 5'4" in 2002.
Average BMI for children and teens has increased as well:
In 1963, the average BMI for a 7-year-old boy was 15.9; in 2002 it was 17.0. For girls the same age, the average BMI increased from 15.8 to 16.6 over the same period.
In 1966, the average BMI for a 16-year-old boy was 21.3; in 2002, it was 24.1. For girls the same age, the average BMI increased from 21.9 to 24.0 over the same period.
The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height. BMI is generally used as the first indicator in assessing body fat and has been the most common method of tracking weight problems and obesity among adults.
Originally posted by FunnyLittleFrog
Interesting thoughts..
If they are humans, then that would suggest, as Crackeur said, that they may be the human race from a far flung future existence.
When you take into account the abduction cases, cattle or people, it would suggest they need something from us..
Which them begs the question, why now in this particular timeframe from 1947 onwards? I mean, evolution being a slow and gradual process- they could just ad easily go to a long time in the future or past.
Maybe they do/have done...
It's very bizarre, but I love the idea.
Good question. I don't think there would be mass panic if alien visitation was disclosed because most people think there are aliens already and many of those think the aliens are visiting.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
This would also explain why they may be dealing with the government in secret, because if the population thought for a second that this would be the future of mankind, do you not think this would cause more of a panic than just knowing aliens were visiting us?
Good point, however I'm not sure we've evolved to be taller, the fact that we are taller could be to improved diet and not a genetic change but I'm not really sure about that. In either case, I'm not aware of evolutionary pressures causing people to evolve to be taller, we have less and less physical demands on us. In America at least, this has resulted in more "outward" growth (aka obesity) rather than upward growth.
Originally posted by Gainsayer
The evolutionary idea is interesting, but doesn't quite add up. Humans are taller today than ever, and we continue to grow bigger.
According to our current understanding of the laws of pysics, both FTL travel and time travel are impossible, but since our understanding pf physics is subject to future discovery, either FTL and/or Time travel may someday prove to be possible, we don't know. I don't know that one is any more likely than the other, they both have related paradoxes associated with them.
Originally posted by icecold7
if people visited us from the future wouldn we all have to be dead?
There would need to be some kind of rules if backwards time travel is ever invented.
There are four central laws of time which are the pillars upon which modern time travel stands. Each individual law is given a mention below.
1. The first law of time states that no individual is allowed to meet themselves, as that would constitute a temporal paradox and would almost certainly change history. Basically, the law insists that time-streams must be kept linear.
2. The second law of time complements the first by stating that no-one is allowed to interfere with their own personal time line (i.e. history). This ensures that a time traveller cannot wipe himself out as changing one's own history would definitely effect oneself. This is actually a specific case of the 1st law.
3. The third law of time simply states that the Blinovitch limitation effect must not take place. The Blinovitch limitation effect itself is not a rule but a physical and temporal effect that always occurs when history tries to repeat itself. In essence, the Blinovitch limitation effect prevents one from repeatedly returning to an event in order to change the outcome, whether for the good or the bad.
4. The fourth law of time states that no-one is allowed to travel back in time on the planet Gallifrey, for any reason. This is because many events in the history of Gallifrey were essential to the creation of time travel and to the fate of many civilisations.
Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
On the other hand, I like Clifford Stone's angle about greys being bio engineered scouting drones for another race of beings that still look like us, like the tall blonde figures described in some encounters.
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