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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Conclusion...ET doesn't exist, because if he did we'd know it, and not just in some shaky, blurry, photograph either.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Here's an experiment where you can prove the existence of alien life (or lack thereof)....
Draw a line across a sheet of paper, just a single line. Now, imagine this line has a length of 'infinity'. Then make a hash mark across the line you've drawn. It doesn't matter where you make the mark, just make one anywhere. The length of the line is important here, so don't lose track of it in what follows...
The first line you've drawn represents a scale of intelligence of life in the Universe. The hash mark across the line represents human intelligence here on Earth (on this timeline). Now because the line has a length of infinity, the hash mark you've drawn across the line is in the approximate middle of the line (trust me, it just is). We can now discard everything to the left of the hash mark; this would be all lesser developed intelligence. Now we focus on the right side of the line. Again, because the original line has a length of infinity, the line is still infinitely long. This means if there is intelligent life in the Universe then there must be infinitely more intelligent life out there (nearly anyway). These far more advanced civilizations would run the gamut from just slightly more intelligent to infinitely more intelligent (and everything in between).
We can now cut the right half of the line in half again. This time we can discard the side of the line to the right of the new hash mark. Any life to the right of this mark would be so far advanced beyond human life we probably wouldn't be able to comprehend its existence or even recognize it. So now we focus on the last remaining line segment. This is life which is more advanced than we are, but not so far advanced so as to exceed human comprehension. This is the ET we're looking for. This is the alien of legend and lore.
Now let's focus on our remaining line segment for a moment. We have an upper and lower boundary on this segment. Intelligent life at the right hand most end of this segment would be highly advanced, probably far more advanced than human life. This ET would have figured out how to deal with gravity, time, long distance space travel and all of the rest of the laws of physics. In other words, this is the ET we want to 'talk to'. There's about a 100% probability this ET would also be doing the same math. He too would be looking for other intelligence at some point.
Conclusion...ET doesn't exist, because if he did we'd know it, and not just in some shaky, blurry, photograph either.
No, he'd be double parked in the handicap spot directly in front of Starbucks in broad daylight getting a mocha latte and cussing out the barista because she won't take his glow in the dark credit card from 1st Bank of Krypton.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
We can now cut the right half of the line in half again. This time we can discard the side of the line to the right of the new hash mark. Any life to the right of this mark would be so far advanced beyond human life we probably wouldn't be able to comprehend its existence or even recognize it.
So now we focus on the last remaining line segment. This is life which is more advanced than we are, but not so far advanced so as to exceed human comprehension. This is the ET we're looking for. This is the alien of legend and lore.
Now let's focus on our remaining line segment for a moment. We have an upper and lower boundary on this segment. Intelligent life at the right hand most end of this segment would be highly advanced, probably far more advanced than human life. This ET would have figured out how to deal with gravity, time, long distance space travel and all of the rest of the laws of physics. In other words, this is the ET we want to 'talk to'. There's about a 100% probability this ET would also be doing the same math. He too would be looking for other intelligence at some point.
Conclusion...ET doesn't exist, because if he did we'd know it, and not just in some shaky, blurry, photograph either.
No, he'd be double parked in the handicap spot directly in front of Starbucks in broad daylight getting a mocha latte and cussing out the barista because she won't take his glow in the dark credit card from 1st Bank of Krypton.