CycleChat Ivestigates - Alien Life

[Ming the Merciless]

expoplanets

Is that held at Crystal Palace in the spring ?

 

[Drago]

Sitrep. It seems aliens do exist, but theyre steering clear of us.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Harlington-Straker isn't a real film studio.

I've said too much.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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"!!!!

 

[Hover Fly]

Life is just a collection of chemical processes, which follow universal natural laws, so wherever the conditions are right, there will be life.

 

[Oldhippy]

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.

 

[Drago]

We would certainly not be a threat.

But we could be very tasty!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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.

Unless Ross Kemp is around of course!!

 

[Hover Fly]

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.

 

[Dogtrousers]

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 to our prehistoric standards, eg, farming and building,

There you go with this human fan club..

Everything has to become like us. Intelligence ... buildings ... What makes you think that is at all likely?

Just because that's how things are for us now doesn't make it inevitable for our successors or for aliens. If - for instance - the Chicxulub impact had missed there's no guarantee that another species would have followed our path.

 

[DRM]

Which of the 2700 recorded deities in human history are we referring to, here?

well if they all put their eggs into one basket, that's one hell of a basket!

 

[Drago]

Which of the 2700 recorded deities in human history are we referring to, here?

There is only one God.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Title should have been Cyclechat Probes …

 

[fossyant]

Well, if they can't Cycle, I'm not Chatting to them. Nannoo Nannoo.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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???