If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[CalG]

Oh, the same rabbit hole of improbability being expressed here, as to be plausible to have a theory of intelligent and intentional evolution. What a wonderful fight it is to explain the unlikelihood, using science, of life, and then to have theists jump on the very same band wagon. Its a wonderful Chinese Finger Trap of logic.

The question of what would aliens would look like is a false question. There are no aliens to us and we have never see them even in lower life forms, even in our own solar system. And there will probably never be any intelligent aliens to us, if C is immutable. Everything is too far away. And other galaxies are ever so much more farther away. Its a said fact that we may be an island. And an island of many other islands out there that have intelligent life that will never be able to communicate with each other.
A sensible scientist, has to see this, unless they want to sell Sci-fi or books.

Obviously not from the school of "Anything one can imagine can be achieved."

"All the important stuff has been discovered by the year 1900". ;-)

 

[/pine]

I would like to better know how massive stone work, so precisely fitted, displayed on locations around the globe, are found "under" crude and less advanced stonework. Lost civilizations, ALL OVER THE PLACE!

A big erasure occurred, and no one remembers anything......

An easy way to see a factual example (close to home) of this...go visit a museum that has a "native" American display...look at the (high) level of skill and craftsmanship obvious in stone tools, arrow heads, spear points etc...that are several thousand (or more) years old...Then look at the same types of stone tools that are several hundred years old...you will see the quality greatly declined...

The above may be the end of the timeline as civilization (technology) outpaced human generation cycles...?

 

[JasperFrank]

Imagination can also be beneficial if it says, you should not do this. "Anything one can imagine can be achieved." That depends on what one wishes to achieve. Though we have forgotten about it, the annihilation of all human life on this planet has been in place for 60 years. And every few years, some one else gets in the club. So, do we make it work, or do we do the unthinkable.
On our island, so far away from everyone else, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter to aliens either.
There is self destruction inherent to technology.
Aliens can't get here for a million years, or go back for a million years, so there is little point to attempting to deal with an entirely new species, and society that would happen in the mean time. And we are assuming that THEY stayed the same? This is silly thinking.
That's how big the Milky Way is. And that's local.
The other galaxies, that we talk about life, are so much farther away.

 

[tradosaurus]

Not at all...I just don't think you have a clue about science, physics or anything else...most of your posts have been based upon religious beliefs, not science or factual data

You still have not refuted, with science, any of my assertions. And "gravity" and "Physics" is not an answer. Think man!

 

[the old grind]

When someone refutes another's assertions and the subject gets changed. The circular dodge. IMO it takes a bit more to refute science as a whole than "I don't believe it."

I didn't refute the ark, only asked how many species and ethnicities were on it. (crickets)

I didn't refute that the universe was created in a short time, just wonder if it took more than a week. (crickets)

I didn't refute that there's a Heaven above, only wonder whether the planets, stars, and galaxies are in it or above it. (crickets)

Someone still has not explained, with religion, any of my questions. (crickets, deny, or ignore?)

 

[bcp]

Crickets are responsible for all that?



Bruce

 

[Jstpssng]

King Tut was given a dagger from a space traveler...

https://www.livescience.com/king-tut-dagger-outer-space-origin

Ok, maybe not. Yet it still makes a good story.

 

[/pine]

King Tut was given a dagger from a space traveler...

https://www.livescience.com/king-tut-dagger-outer-space-origin

Ok, maybe not. Yet it still makes a good story.

According to legend Jim Bowie had a knife made from outer space material...

 

[CalG]

Imagination can also be beneficial if it says, you should not do this. "Anything one can imagine can be achieved." That depends on what one wishes to achieve. Though we have forgotten about it, the annihilation of all human life on this planet has been in place for 60 years. And every few years, some one else gets in the club. So, do we make it work, or do we do the unthinkable.
[SNIP]

Have you had an opportunity to read any of these?


"Main article: Carlos Castaneda bibliography

• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, 1968. ISBN 978-0-520-21757-7. (Summer 1960 to October 1965.)
• A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan, 1971. ISBN 978-0-671-73249-3. (April 1968 to October 1970.)
• Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan, 1972. ISBN 978-0-671-73246-2. (Summer 1960 to May 1971.)"

Contemporary physics would put the mystical in the "entangled" category. ;-)

Action at a distance....
"Speeding through the Universe, Thinking is the best way to travel" Moody Blues.

 

[ruffdog]

^^Back then, LSD seemed to help people "travel" too.