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Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by Ryanp5555
This is sort of off topic but it reminds me of Steven Hawking saying that if aliens came to earth they would likely want to attack it and harvest the earth for resources, or whatever. Yet, Mr. Hawking has no place to speaking about an alien's psychology. In fact, I would argue that Mr. Hawking likely isn't too adept at human psychology by saying that because the closest thing he'd have to understanding alien psychology would be human psychology.
I don't think you quite got the message. It was not about how the aliens are definitely going to be bloodthirsty maniacs. It's about the downside risk, in case they actually are. Let's say there is 85% chance that aliens are rich and benevolent hippies who cruise the Universe to cure cancer and give away cases of champagne. The remaining 15% is the chance that they will be like hi-tech Texas Chainsaw Massacre type of guys. The idea is that enormous benefits of the 85% do not outweigh certain extinction of human species in the other 15%.
So if Dr. Hawking is not an expert in alien psyche, he says that whatever the percentage is, it's too damn risky to consider this. It's like playing russian roulette for $1M. A lot of people would do it, but the conservative and prudent type won't.
If you ask me, I'd say if humans found life on another planet, and had the means to get there, we'd study the aliens, not attack and kill them.
Human history is abundant with examples of opposite sort of behavior.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by Ryanp5555
The point of my original post was because the other person was dismissive of the shroud based on the original carbon dating test that they did. However, there have been, as you point out, enough questions to call the original testing into doubt. Just as this study has too many questions surrounding it to say that its valid.
Yes, but at least the study demonstrated a non-zero probability that the shroud is modern. That whole "mending" of the shroud is actually a hypothesis in and by itself.
Originally posted by Ryanp5555
Okay, so now we're going to get into an argument about this? First off, your percentages are incredibly incorrect. Not only is not 85/15, there are not only those two possibilities. I know tons of people who are neither hippies nor "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" type guys. In fact, I'd say the majority of people are neither hippies nor Texas chainsaw massacre type guys.
If the Aliens were in fact Texas Chainsaw Massacre type aliens, how would they have ever evolved to the point of making it outerspace, let alone interstellar travel? It seems to me that people who are just out for blood tend to contribute nothing to the scientific community.
So your opinion here is that if humans found life on another planet, we'd try to kill it? So, let's get this straight, we'd spend billions of dollars to have our scientists go up in space ships, just to kill off life?
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
What are your thoughts...
My personal opinion is that ATS need s a compulsory search function.
There's at least three threads on this already.
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Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Originally posted by Suspiria
Wonder if these Italian scientists are Catholic...
What relevance does that have? o_0
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Wonder if these Italian scientists are Catholic...
Originally posted by wirefly
Wouldn't a secular scientist in these modern times be more inclined to try to DISprove the shroud just as a Catholic scientist would be inclined to PROVE the shroud to be legit?
Originally posted by Suspiria
Wonder if these Italian scientists are Catholic...
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Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
No way is it a medieval hoax they didn't even have the technology to make such a thing back then.
I think you'd be surprised by the tricks real Alchemists had up their voluminous sleeves, back in the day.
Did you read the article? Scientists have proven that there is no way that could of created this in medieval times. Some how I don't think even the best Alchemists had high-intensity ultra violet lasers back in those days.edit on 22-12-2011 by RevelationGeneration because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Why do you people always have to shout "ET" when you find something that cannot be explained by normal human measure?
Originally posted by matadoor
Oh, and to Revelation Generation, I leave you this little reminder....
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things" (Romans 2:1).