UFOs

[Fafnir]

Actually, funny story, i've compared a lot of stories of the bible etc to aliens and it DOES make sense.

Jesus left on a "shining cloud".

The city of god "descends from heaven".

And other such tidbits too.

One thing about UFOs is though; there certainly is something funky up there in the sky at times.

Well the biggest proof is his dad that was around before the world was here, 5000 years ago...

 

[Wij]

I stopped reading right there.

Sorry, typo. Should have said inside, not aside.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Its not inconceivable there are aliens with advanced technology somewhere out there - space is a big place - but the distances are so vast, we'd have to be talking seriously advanced technology to span thousands / millions of light years. Cryogenics, sure, why not, but even a million light years (which is a tiny distance on a universal scale) would imply either seriously long lifespans or the manipulation of the spacetime continuum. Sounds more science fiction the more I think about it...or a knowledge of nature / physics which is way beyond our comprehension.

Quite a bump you got there mister

Thread recycling, the forums going green.

Anyway, if you imagine that a race like humans began at the start of the universe(big bang theory being the basis here), they would be technologically out of our imagination, IUF they didn't blow themselves up.

They might hold such wild ideas as fact like "speed of light is not fastest", or "cell deterioration isn't inevitable".

Humans tend to get too stuck in their little "laws of physics", which on a universal scale is as adorable as a 3 year old kid playing with legos.

 

[Lamp]

Thats pretty much what Feynman reckoned. He said (paraphrasing) imagine Nature as an onion with a billion layers. We've peeled off maybe a few hundred layers of the onion and we think we understand how those layers work and we can describe how our world works using mathematics and some experimentation. But Nature is far more complex than we think (take quantum mechanics as an example), and in x years time a new discovery may come along and blow what we know right out of the water. Feynman reckoned we should be concentrating on understanding the world around us and leave the really big questions on the back burner.