Random thoughts thread

[Special_K]

Originally Posted by Teseo

Who cares about aliens, the humanity will die soon. We will have money but food resource not enough, also sun are expanding meaning it will exolode. When shit happens i hope to be 7 feet on the ground

Allow me to weigh in on just a little part of your comment. Seeing as how I work in food/agriculture, I can say that there is in fact plenty of food resources for everyone, it would take a serious shitstorm for there not to be enough food. Now granted, the food is not evenly distributed across the globe so there are areas that need more, but in general there is plenty. If there was a shortage then farmers would be absolutely rolling in the dough. But alas, certain crops are standing to lose money this year, simply because there is too much supply compared to the demand.

The Earth could go tits-up for any number of reasons. But as of now, a food shortage is a stretch.

[jawn]

I like turtles.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Special_K

According to the documentaries Falling Skies, Battle LA, etc, even superior weaponry and the decimation of our infrastructure wouldn't stop us from kicking their asses.

If history serves me correctly, all it takes is a Randy Quaid crashing into a spaceship.

[jawn]

Originally Posted by Special_K

According to the documentaries Falling Skies, Battle LA, etc, even superior weaponry and the decimation of our infrastructure wouldn't stop us from kicking their asses.

Those are good documentaries, but my favorite documentary on this issue is GalaxyQuest.

[echo419]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Again making the assumption that they "think" like us. They could have zero concept of what fighting or weapons are. This is exactly why movies portray aliens as almost human. People could not grasp that they could be so radically different in appearance and action. It is simply human egocentricity that dictates the belief that since we developed as we did everything else did as well.

conversely the assumption is made that they don't think like us. I'm just saying the possibility is there should those with the capability do something. hell for all we know a planet just like ours with people just like us fired off a probe a billion years ago and it's come wizzing by any day now. I think there is more out there we don't know than we do know by looking from the inside through a telescope.

Originally Posted by babydriver

Again, extrapolating from what has occurred in the past, you might be right. Europeans in the post-Columbian colonization period (say, 1500-1900) tended to destroy any civilization with technically inferior weapons rather than show respect and understanding. With a highly advanced and non-empathetic alien civilization arriving with the intention of colonizing Earth, we would be swept before them like so much dust.

indeed. hell they could be benevolent and wipe us out on accident with some alien virus that to them keeps their ears clean but is deadly to us. ie small pox to the injuins but not really.

Originally Posted by Special_K

According to the documentaries Falling Skies, Battle LA, etc, even superior weaponry and the decimation of our infrastructure wouldn't stop us from kicking their asses.

don't forget Signs. maybe aliens to which water is deadly will try and take over a planet that's over 70% water on foot without weapons poisoning us one by one with farts from their wrists.

[Tcoat]

The whole aliens point is moot since they are already among us.
How else can anybody explain this:

[echo419]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The whole aliens point is moot since they are already among us.
How else can anybody explain this:

white girl + red beans+ rice=this

[Tcoat]

Oh and of course there is the silicone based version

[Guff]

Originally Posted by Guff

1. Get a Knife, or a stapler.
2. Threaten Boss.
3. Proclaim yourself as The Baws.
4. ?????
5. Profit!!

Somebody gave me a thanks on this post from 2012. I was 17 when I posted this...

Time sure does fly...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Guff

Somebody gave me a thanks on this post from 2012. I was 17 when I posted this...

Time sure does fly...

Damnit Guff, I have underwear older than you!

[Guff]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Damnit Guff, I have underwear older than you!

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Special_K

Originally Posted by Tcoat

One page, we're talking bout some crazy animal... next page, we're talking about "crazy" animal...




LOVE IT!

[RobertPaulson]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

It seems like every car think I want to race them ever since the new exhaust was put on. I pull away at red lights like I used to do before but now, a lot of them mash their go pedal and race on ahead...

Then again, I've been driving mostly in manual mode and shifting at higher RPMs now compared to Camry mode.

i don't have this problem to much unless i'm trying to pass on a 2 lane road. but they don't hear me until i'm blowing past them at wot at 6k rpm SCREAMING down the road.

[RobertPaulson]

Originally Posted by babydriver

Until we see something else, we have to assume that all life is based on carbon and water. The original question was about size. Intelligent life could of course take many forms (think whales and dolphins) but for any land-based creature size is fundamentally limited by gravity.

Whales are an exception for an obvious reason, they are suspended in a liquid; even there, food resources are a key issue. Now if you eat krill, then generally it will not be a problem getting enough food. But whales and dolphins do not make tools in the conventional sense, so it's hard to see how an alien race of whales could be much of a threat if they are like whales on Earth.

what if they're whales in space, require no oxygen and can live in zero gravity moving along.