CycleChat Ivestigates - Alien Life

[fossyant]

According to some, we'll be getting a visit soon, as that comet is a spaceship ! ooooohhhhh

 

[diplodicus]

Regarding Lemmy above, I saw Phil Cambell and His Bastard Sons recently. Very good.

Regarding aliens, if they ever turn up I am sure they would view us as vermin and proceed to exterminate

 

[Drago]

I live in hope of being abducted by aliens for sex experiments. Just so long as they're not the sort of aliens with un shaven armpits.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I live in hope of being abducted by aliens for sex experiments. Just so long as they're not the sort of aliens with un shaven armpits.

I suspect you will be disappointed

although whether by the lack of an abduction
or the aliens
is yet to be seen

 

[markemark]

Firstly silicon is in the same group as Carbon and is very similar in many way

btu it is just not possible for it to form the variety of compunds that carbon can - so silicon based life is not possible the way we understand life

I’m talking about ai and robots. If there’s intelligent life out there it will almost certainly be ai as the period of organic life will be the blink of an eye before ai takes over and the chances of making contact during that period are remote.

 

[classic33]

Just a thought, humans and other mammals get wiped out next year, so after the world has settled down a bit, the next order* evolves and becomes intelligent to our prehistoric standards, eg, farming and building, say late Stone Age level, next step is metal use, bronze, then iron. Where will they get the ore from?** We have already used up the easiest deposits, and if their technology improves, rare earths etc will be even harder to find. So it seems technological society as opposed to merely intelligent is a one off in the Earth’s history, barring something massive happening.

*The clever money is on cephalopods, apparently.

Will they need to get the ore from anywhere. They'll find/discover ample supplies of metals(As we call them) that they'll learn to work in time. And as their skills evolve they'll learn to work the harder and stronger metals.

 

[raleighnut]

If all mammals died tomorrow for whatever reason

then something would fill the gap

but there is no reason to believe it would be or become intelligent

the odds of that are unknown but very very small

In spite of the size of the Universe

it is still possible that we are the only intelligent life in it

odds are that there is other intelligent life out there - but there actually might not be

now where did I put that lottery ticket???

So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I have a booking for the restaurant

 

[Profpointy]

For an external civilisation that had mastered the technical knowledge to travel either by intergalactic means or inter-dimensionally I imagine we would merely be mildly interesting to them at best. We would certainly not be a threat.

We would be as interesting and significant to them as perhaps ants or squirrels are to us

 

[Beebo]

Will they need to get the ore from anywhere. They'll find/discover ample supplies of metals(As we call them) that they'll learn to work in time. And as their skills evolve they'll learn to work the harder and stronger metals.

But the easy access ore, coal and oil has all gone. So the opportunity for a basic civilisation to make the leap has gone.
That is the point Hover fly was making.
If the only oil they can access is under the sea they will never be able to develop technology to access it.

 

[Baldy]

We would be as interesting and significant to them as perhaps ants or squirrels are to us

I like squirrels.

 

[Punkawallah]

There is only one God.

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Don’t see any of those on the List . . .

 

[Drago]

The list was obviously written by some deranged loon.

 

[Alex321]

A couple of points

Firstly silicon is in the same group as Carbon and is very similar in many way

btu it is just not possible for it to form the variety of compunds that carbon can - so silicon based life is not possible the way we understand life


also - if we do detect alien life on another planet outside out solar system
we are actually seeing them how they were many many many years ago - probably millions of years ago
so they are probably all dead by now or on a different planet


and finally - if any aliens find us then they are more likely to kill or enslave us than be friends and help us

let's just hope they don't land in Washington and want to talk to the leader of the free world while Trump is "in charge"!!!!

Why do you believe any beings advanced enough to have developed star travel woulod be aggressive?

Humans mighht still be, if we ever develop it, but aliens are unlikely to think in similar ways to us.

 

[Drago]

We can only judge by the measure of examples we can observe.

And as the only example available to us is an aggressive and war like rre there is no scientific reason to presume another developed race would be any difrerent.

Hell, you've only got to read a few threads on NCAP to see how nasty we are as a species.