What are the sources for your favorite uncommon things?

[Sergio]

Hi everyone, most of us are interested in things that are just away from normal. I mean to say about paranormal, aliens (UFO), strange incidents which do catch my interest. There are many sources on the web for such kind of news. I would like to ask you all, about the best sources that you have been to and found interesting!

[kaneda]

Astronomy tells me that aliens exist. Ever more planets discovered (there may be a trillion, trillion of them) and we know the ingredients for life exists outside the solar system (water, tholins, long chain amino acids and other organic compounds).

The big problem is distance and that as far as present science goes, we know of no way of breaking the light barrier so first contact may be centuries away.

[BLuEGoD]

Astronomy tells me that aliens exist. .

Just check what Scientific method is. Perhaps you are talking about Astrology...


Ever more planets discovered (there may be a trillion, trillion of them) and we know the ingredients for life exists outside the solar system (water, tholins, long chain amino acids and other organic compounds).

The big problem is distance and that as far as present science goes, we know of no way of breaking the light barrier so first contact may be centuries away.

That's just a matter of probability...

[kaneda]

BLuEGoD. Were you named after a toilet freshner?

We know how our solar system formed. Can a star form without planets, etc? Are there any areas (other than solar systems) which are free of huge clouds of dust, etc? (other than the freak one billion light year void)

So, Mr I M A Scientist, tell me why there is no life but that on Earth anywhere else in the universe. Even creationist clods Robinson and Fulwell accept there is so if you say no, that puts you somewhere below them.

Probability? Duh, yes! This is not a text book but a debating forum. If you have nothing to say that does not come out of a text book (like ANother I can think of), you are wasting your time here.

[AlphaNumeric]

Probability? Duh, yes! This is not a text book but a debating forum. If you have nothing to say that does not come out of a text book (like ANother I can think of), you are wasting your time here.When you make claims about what science says, it is a matter of you claiming something about textbooks. And in your case you tend to be wrong. I'm still waiting for you to provide me with a link to you 'doing' the FRW metric and showing that the BB is inconsistent in any topology other than a hypersphere, over in this thread (http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=87816&page=2). And I've offered to discuss my work with you. My work which is original research. You've avoided it. How can I engage you in a conversation you claim is the only kind of proper discussion but you refuse to have it with me?

[BLuEGoD]

BLuEGoD. Were you named after a toilet freshner?

We know how our solar system formed. Can a star form without planets, etc? Are there any areas (other than solar systems) which are free of huge clouds of dust, etc? (other than the freak one billion light year void)

So, Mr I M A Scientist, tell me why there is no life but that on Earth anywhere else in the universe. Even creationist clods Robinson and Fulwell accept there is so if you say no, that puts you somewhere below them.

Probability? Duh, yes! This is not a text book but a debating forum. If you have nothing to say that does not come out of a text book (like ANother I can think of), you are wasting your time here.

Of course!! I agree that there is life outside the Earth. But you wrote ALIENS.. Just check it...

This is my opinion, so I wrote something that comes not from a textbook. Anyway I think you had to read about Robinson and Fulwell to put your opinion there, perhaps you didn't read a children's book about aliens so your opinion and knowledge didn't come from a book, instead it comes from somewhere out in space...

[Ophiolite]

Probability? Duh, yes! This is not a text book but a debating forum. Correct on all counts. Perhaps.

You made an absolute statement: astronomy tells me aliens exist.

This is false. First, astronomy tells us only that there are almost certainly numerous terrestrial planets, some of which will lie in the Goldilocks zone for an astronomically long period. So, what are believed to be the general phsyical conditions necessary for life probably exist or have existed somewhere else in the universe.

Secondly, astronomy does not tell us anything about the mechanism of abiogenesis (though it can tell us something about some prebiotic chemistry).

Astronomy alone does not confirm the existence of aliens, nor - on anything other than a probabilistic basis - does it even confirm that life compatible worlds exist anywhere other than Earth.

[I AM THE EPITOME]

perhaps you didn't read a children's book about aliens so your opinion and knowledge didn't come from a book, instead it comes from somewhere out in space...You my friend just made my day with this line.

[kurros]

It is seems a small thing to be picking on; perhaps it isn't very rigorous to say that astronomy "definitely" says extraterrestrial life (which I don't think is incorrect to call alien life, although perhaps this carries more connotations of intelligence) exists, but it is fair to say it is a big universe and the chances are good.

[Cyperium]

Wow, this thread drifted away from the OP fast...

[John Connellan]

Wow, this thread drifted away from the OP fast...

After just the 2nd post eh? And never returned :D