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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 9:15:30 GMT -5
Existence: Are we alone in the universe?HAVE you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if somebody, or something, is looking back? If perhaps somewhere out there, the mysterious spark we call life has flickered into existence? Intuitively, it feels as if we can't be alone. For every one of the 2000 stars you can see with your naked eye, there are another 50 million in our galaxy, which is one of 100 billion galaxies. In other words, the star we orbit is just one of 10,000 billion billion in the cosmos. Surely there is another blue dot out there - a home to intelligent life like us? The simple fact is, we don't know. One way to estimate the number of intelligent civilisations was devised by astronomer Frank Drake. His equation takes into account the rate of star formation, the fraction of those stars with planets and the likelihood that life, intelligent life, and intelligent creatures capable of communicating with us, will arise. Link to full article - www.newscientist.com/article/mg21....e-universe.htmlDo you think there exists other intelligent, sentient 'life' elsewhere in the universe?
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 9:44:29 GMT -5
Do you think there exists other intelligent, sentient 'life' elsewhere in the universe?
Yes royston i do but im not sure what.
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Post by shirina on Aug 2, 2011 9:50:00 GMT -5
Me! Oh, oh, me! I'm really "out there."
Hello, Royston. I'm sure you already know that I certainly believe there is intelligent life out there and, perhaps, they could even be visiting us from time to time.
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 9:52:26 GMT -5
And could it be that when they visit we just simply cannot see them?.
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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 10:15:38 GMT -5
Hi Shirina and piffles,
Well, it's perfectly possible; isn't it? I think it was Evil_0ne who recently suggested that a technologically advanced species could have the ability to cloak (bend light around their craft) themselves. What if the life forms involved needed no craft? - what if their natural habitat was space itself? - perhaps I've been watching too much Star Trek.
Given the Universe's - ever-growing - volume; is it impossible (- or likely?) that 'life', as we currently understand and experience it, is but one of many perspectives of 'existence' that the Universe supports?
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 10:23:17 GMT -5
Ummmm royston well now you have given me something to think about and i know this may sound daft to some but have you every been in a room or car or whatever and felt the presance of something there ? because i have.
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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 11:16:19 GMT -5
Yes, I have too, piffles. I believe it's not an uncommon experience that you describe. Why we experience these inklings is open to debate;- are they a sixth sense-type of premonition, or merely one's overactive imagination paying tricks or are they the result of something else completely. I don't know the answer. Interesting though.
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Post by jackthelad on Aug 2, 2011 11:40:33 GMT -5
Now then, who makes the corn circles, they seem to be too perfect to be made by man. Is there someone up there with a big rubber stammer that thinks, that looks like a nice field i will put a pattern on it. The patterns seem too out of this world for man to do it, unless Leonardo Di Vinci or Michael Angelo is up there looking down.
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Post by pod 7 on Aug 2, 2011 12:48:53 GMT -5
Well there`s just got to be intelligent life out there, thats why they wont come a calling, can you imagine if they did the Yanks would go to DEF COM 1 , i have seen it on the History channel where pilots have (all be it temporary)got a lock on with a missile, they cannot say they were invading their air space because there are no signs up in orbit. P.S.i am not implying all Americans think that way ---just the military--------Hi peeps!!
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Post by tosh on Aug 2, 2011 13:27:45 GMT -5
Hello my friend.
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Post by pod 7 on Aug 2, 2011 13:34:56 GMT -5
Hi i think still dont know what i am doing ---i clicked on reply and now i have my own little box to write in all by myself
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Post by pod 7 on Aug 2, 2011 13:37:15 GMT -5
ooops got to go phone just rang looks like the DAD taxi has to be fired up again
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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 13:39:40 GMT -5
That's right pod 7, you're not doing anything incorrect. The 'Quick Reply' box is fine for a simple retort. Clicking the 'REPLY' box gives you more options.
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 13:50:12 GMT -5
Hi pod7 .........Royston when i moved into my now house ,,the front room no matter what i did to it always felt cold,,,,,sometimes something brushed on my leg whilst i was sitting at the comp,,,,,,,very errie .........
A neighbour told me an old man died in the front room a few years before i moved in .
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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 14:47:37 GMT -5
There are, I suppose, a number of possible reasons as to why you felt uncomfortable, piffles. How soon after you moved in were you told of the death that occurred in the front room?
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 14:59:32 GMT -5
Royston i was told 8 years after i moved in.
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Post by Royston Vasey on Aug 2, 2011 15:14:36 GMT -5
Bang goes that emergent theory then. . What did you - before you knew of the death - put the room's chill down to? Was the room actually cold, or was it warm but you felt chilly? Obvious, I know, but was it a draughty house? If you sit beside a window in a warm room, even one without a draught, you can feel chilly on the side of your body facing the window.
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Post by shirina on Aug 2, 2011 18:01:12 GMT -5
Not true. Debunkers and die hard skeptics just LOVE using this disingenuous argument. If anyone ... anyone at all ... is caught hoaxing, then every last incident must also be a hoax. It's a silly argument that would reveal itself as being silly if applied to anything else. It's the equivalent of saying, "Well, I caught this one girl lying, so all females are liars."
The only revealed hoaxers were two elderly gentlemen named Doug and Dave, one of whom is now deceased. They were limited to crop circles in the UK ... except they're appearing all over the globe. Unless the world's land surveyors have all joined a Crop Circle Union and are hard at work sneaking into fields in the middle of the night to create hundreds of these designs, it's not only hoaxers. Oh, SOME are hoaxes to be sure, but one cannot explain away a global phenomenon by pinning it on a pair of old men living in rural England.
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Post by londonladypiff on Aug 2, 2011 19:20:41 GMT -5
Hi again royston, I felt warm but the room was cold like when i would first walk in i got a cold errie feeling ....my comp is in the middle of the room away from windows,,,,,At first i put it down to a ghoast.
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Post by pod 7 on Aug 4, 2011 14:11:20 GMT -5
London lady hi--spooky ---when we first moved here about 27 years ago, our youngest daughter had what we call the back bedroom only because its at the back of the house, anyway she came home from school one day asking if she could go with the school to Switzerland, in the winter,well we toyed with the idea,and bearing in mind we had only just moved in, getting carpets/curtains/having double glazing etc said "we cant afford it, that was £350 + She got upset you know kids--anyway about 6 months later we found out the womans son (who lived here before)had gone to the same place a few years earlier and was killed slipping on ice on a balcony and falling over the edge. Now that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!!
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