The reason we don't meet aliens
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If they don't all end up deep fried as part of a greek meze
Anthropocentric - who says that hands must be the phylogenetic feature of choice - language need not be verbal - cephalopod signalling is extremely complex, and can even provide simultaneous data streams in varying light wavelengths by manipulating their chromatophores.
Its not limited to that either - they also have a number of postural signals - which is great fun if you know some of them as you can really fuck with them when you dive with one
And they are halfway to writing - they already have ink
Sorry to get stuck on squid - but it does serve as an example of how intelligent life elsewhere in terms of what it looks like and how it communicates etc could be something utterly "other"
If we limit ourselves to an anthropocentric view of alien life and technology (its just other monkeys out there!) we lessen our chances of finding it
Quite - futher study needed - pass the grant application form
Not indian or of indian extraction - I come from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cv1_Bw_sBo
ha!
hardly
it does appear that way cos i was being lazy and reluctant to further complicate.
i am a scifi buff.
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There are dozens of documented cases in which highly trained astronauts track UFOs which follow them for a period of time
Also our moon is unique in that it is tidally locked in such a fashion that the same side ALWAYS faces the earth, this is very peculiar and opens possibility of a base on the dark side of the moon (a perfect staging point for observations and docking, no?).
Add this to the fact that NASA has not been back to the moon in 30 years and discounts ALL records of UFOs and you got yourself a conspiracy theory.
But then again you would think if the aliens wanted us to know they were here, or knew that we knew they were here they would either greet us or kill us depending on their intentions instead of just flying around.
Also our moon is unique in that it is tidally locked in such a fashion that the same side ALWAYS faces the earth, this is very peculiar and opens possibility of a base on the dark side of the moon (a perfect staging point for observations and docking, no?).
Add this to the fact that NASA has not been back to the moon in 30 years and discounts ALL records of UFOs and you got yourself a conspiracy theory.
But then again you would think if the aliens wanted us to know they were here, or knew that we knew they were here they would either greet us or kill us depending on their intentions instead of just flying around.
A bunch of fuzzy images and some unattributed voice recordings - its easier to be convinced by that if you are a true beleiver - I'm sceptical.
They're interesting, but easily faked
Considering the age of the moon (it formed way before there was life on earth) and the emount of energy it would have taken to influence its orbit, I'd say that the idea that its unusual properties are anything but a simple coincidence
Or it was the expense and the lack of public interest - and once the russians were beaten to it, the space race was effectively over
let's assume they are observing us. In the case of an international disaster which leads to nuclear war, would they be ABLE to stop us or would they WANT to???
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