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Given that it's an infinite universe, you'd have to be supremely arrogant to assume that Earth was the only planet with sentient life. It's inevitable, surely, that beings would have evolved elsewhere. So there must be 'aliens' somewhere out there. On the other hand I gather that the physical realities of the universe mean that they can't possibly, and will never, make contact with Earth, which is kind of sad. You know, knowing that there would be these whole other species out there we'll never, ever know about. Imagine what a day it'd be if we made contact, and somehow managed to prevent the US blowing the living shit out of them. A great day. Unless if was those cockends from Super Earth. I don't even want to know about them. That would be awful. If they made contact and they were like "Oh, hey! You invented cinema too! Brilliant! Cinema's the most popular form of entertainment on our planet! Last year's top movie was a profound meditation on the nature and meaning of life and death in a Universe where time is merely a perception. What have you got? Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End? Ohhh Kay.. Um.. Well... I suppose that's good in it's own way." Those fucking wankers.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Given that it's an infinite universe, you'd have to be supremely arrogant to assume that Earth was the only planet with sentient life.
I don't think it's actually infinite is it? I thought that scientists had established that it is merely "bigger than quite a lot of football pitches".
Also, they reckon that universes expand for a bit, and then they contract again into a tiny little dot, and then they blow up again. So this universe could be the 67 billionth universe, or the first one. We just don't know. Although that Dawkins scientist bloke apparently knows that there is no god, somehow. I'll have to read his book one of these days to see how he's figured that out. I'm sure it's all very convincing.
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As I understand it he mainly attacks the idea of God as a man with a big white beard doing nice things for people. I don't think he's explicitly shot down stuff like the idea that we're all manifestations of the same consciousness experiencing itself subjectively or anything like that. You know; the one about how, viewed from beneath the surface, five fingers in a bowl of water look like seperate entities but in reality they're all part of the same thing. Is that Universal Field Theory? Anyway. He hasn't disproved God in that context, juts gone after the easy win of saying there obviously isn't a man with a beard looking after us all.
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Apparently... Europeans are descended from alien visitors from pre-history. Our skulls are quite different from those of Asian and African skulls. That's how you can tell, you see?
If you place an Asian skull on a flat surface it will rock back and forth. If you put an African skull on a flat surface it will stay quite still. A European skull will hover ever so slightly above a flat surface.
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Also, if you blow into an Asian skull it will emit a high-pitched scream. If you blow into an African skull it will explode with a terrifying bang. Blowing into a European skull is forbidden.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Apparently... Europeans are descended from alien visitors from pre-history. Our skulls are quite different from those of Asian and African skulls. That's how you can tell, you see?
If you place an Asian skull on a flat surface it will rock back and forth. If you put an African skull on a flat surface it will stay quite still. A European skull will hover ever so slightly above a flat surface.
I fucking knew it! I knew we were special.
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I bet if I threw your skull at a window it would just stick to it and wobble its way down like those spider things used to.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Also, if you blow into an Asian skull it will emit a high-pitched scream. If you blow into an African skull it will explode with a terrifying bang. Blowing into a European skull is forbidden.
Wow, this is going to make my next trip to Chinatown much more interesting.
Ralph, fancy a visit to Harlem?
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