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originally posted by: Scorpiogurl
I don't think it's a matter of them not visiting us.
I think they've always been here and have never left We're just not advanced enough to recognize things that are right in front of our faces.
"A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage"
Suppose I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!
"Show me," you say. I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle--but no dragon.
"Where's the dragon?" you ask.
"Oh, she's right here," I reply, waving vaguely. "I neglected to mention that she's an invisible dragon."
You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon's footprints.
"Good idea," I say, "but this dragon floats in the air."
Then you'll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire.
"Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless."
You'll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible.
"Good idea, but she's an incorporeal dragon and the paint won't stick."
And so on. I counter every physical test you propose with a special explanation of why it won't work.
Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.
originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: Nexttimemaybe
That is highly likely due to the fact we know you cannot travel faster than light. Nothing can.
That's just Human ego talking.
When someone says "We" know such and such, I always mentally add "As far as we know". We are making new breakthroughs all the time. Who is to say that a civilization thousand or millions of years ahead of us, hasn't figured it out?
First airplane...
Roughly 100 years later....
Now...imagine what They might have.
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: Nexttimemaybe
That is highly likely due to the fact we know you cannot travel faster than light. Nothing can.
That's just Human ego talking.
When someone says "We" know such and such, I always mentally add "As far as we know". We are making new breakthroughs all the time. Who is to say that a civilization thousand or millions of years ahead of us, hasn't figured it out?
First airplane...
Roughly 100 years later....
Now...imagine what They might have.
Exactly and we can't reduce a universe that could have over 6 sextillion earthlike planets to the technology of our planet.
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
“It’s a 3-D printer for DNA, a 3-D printer for life,” Venter said here today at the inaugural Wired Health Conference in New York City.
Venter is also experimenting with synthetic life, taking DNA from one type of cell, injecting it into another, and letting that “genetic software” reprogram its host. What that means in the context of DNA desktop manufacturing isn’t clear either, especially when it comes to questions of privacy.
Venter isn’t concerned. “Privacy with medical information is a fallacy,” Venter said. “If everyone’s information is out there, it’s part of the collective.”
He joked that he’s been beaming his genome into space for years, and perhaps the real fear is that an army of genetically engineered Craig Venters would come back to take over the planet.
Why haven't Aliens visited us if they exist?
originally posted by: Mianeye
I think that life in our Galaxy is very common, that there is so much life that we become insignificant to other space traveling species.
They might have scouted our planet/solar system, but don't really care about us, because of our early stage technology wise and destructive behaviour.
Ezekiel had something to write about concerning visitors....( the holy bible)
originally posted by: Nexttimemaybe
a reply to: neoholographic
I never said I was basing it on our knowledge of technology. No aliens have ever visited earth. That is highly likely due to the fact we know you cannot travel faster than light. Nothing can.
If you think bending space will ever become a reality, for any civilisations, then I suggest you stop taking sci-go films so seriously.
originally posted by: kelbtalfenek
Interesting idea, but there is a caveat to your exception: quantum entanglement...which works faster than light speed. So how to explain?
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: MarioOnTheFly
why do we observe wild beasts from the safety...and why so often we dont show ourselves to animals we observe ?
So they don't eat us.
Are you saying we would eat the space aliens if they were coming here?