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Darammer Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am

At the very least, even a super-advanced alien would be able to enjoy America’s Funniest Home Videos. Crotch pain is a universal language.
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The only thing more funny is to watch all the men in the room make that OMG face when someone gets hit really hard.

Humanity has done amazing things over it's time on earth, but we must remember we are essentially animals, thus revert back to the simplistic behavior of animals....Aggression. That is why we treat each other poorly

Coyote did you ever think that Aliens just have a human butt fetish like you do for alien boobies? And if the aliens are abducting 400# women from the local Walmart here in Kentucky then I welcome our alien overlords and thier attempts at the beautification of planet Earth now if they would only leave us some of those space vixens from planet 9 . . .

Bith, the abduction of 400# women is only advantageous if they either keep them or put them into orbit. It does us no good if they are returned to tell us of the anal probing in such horrid detail that we have no choice but to vomit and hope that the aliens land to give us their mind scrubbing technology.

Hooray for intergalactic boobage!

I see. So now you work for the government and you are part of the conspiracy to keep us all in the dark about those who walk amongst us eh?

I thought better of you too :(

I was extremely bumped when i first began to read this post. I thought "Damn it all to hell, another article about illigel immigrants". Yet, I was wrong and thank god. Excellent post and I look forward to terrifying my child in the same manner that you do.

I think that the aliens come to our planet, look at the human race, shake their heads, and go back home. That would probably be the biggest reason they do not hang out here, or do anything to us. They know we are killing ourselves off, so all they have to do is wait.

Alos, very nice Rubber Duck reference with the pic!

Badion, two problems with your plan.

A) Your son will prolly be to smart for it to work.

Blue)The Mrs. will beat you. And I will giggle as she posts pics of the beating on Myspace.

Cerdion Says:

September 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Bith, the abduction of 400# women is only advantageous if they either keep them or put them into orbit. It does us no good if they are returned to tell us of the anal probing in such horrid detail that we have no choice but to vomit and hope that the aliens land to give us their mind scrubbing technology.
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This is the reason I don't watch Jerry Springer.

Bithnar Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am

This is the reason I don’t watch Jerry Springer.
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Well, that and Steve is an alien in disguise, sent to gather all the 400# women and rednecks in one location so they can save on gas by not having to fly to remote locations in search of their abductees. That, of course, became obsolete when NASCAR gained popularity.

Guy Fleegman rocks. In fact, he rocks so much that I encouraged my 6 year old to name his EQ2 character "Fleegman." *nod*

And queegnargs....mmmmmm.....

Westlocke Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 8:33 am

I think that the aliens come to our planet, look at the human race, shake their heads, and go back home. That would probably be the biggest reason they do not hang out here, or do anything to us. They know we are killing ourselves off, so all they have to do is wait.
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Ah, here it is again: The "humanity sucks" meme. Mention aliens in a conversation and someone inevitably spews forth this steaming puddle of pessimism and self-loathing. As if ANY species climbing the ladder of sentience isn't going to have to go through a technological and sociological adolescence similar to the one we're experiencing now.

There is nothing inherently cruel, evil, or stupid about human beings. Individuals can exhibit those characteristics (and worse) but as a species we have made nothing but progress, and some of that progress has been quite remarkable. In 5000 years - far less than the blink of an eye in cosmic terms - we've come from stone tools to space shuttles, from shell beads to The Sistine Chapel. Those who don't grasp the Earth-shaking significance of such achievement lack a useful sense of perspective; they only see the world through their own narrow, negative porthole.

Even if our technological advancement is unimpressive to hypothetical aliens - which is not a given, by the way - our art, biology, and historical perspective would still be worthy of close, intense scrutiny. Life is almost certainly uncommon in the universe, and intelligent life rare in the extreme. A chance to study, and possibly contact, an alien species would not be taken lightly regardless of how seemingly primitive its technology or petty its wars.

I don't believe that there are aliens watching us simply because I've seen no solid evidence of it. But if an alien race has found us, I assure you that they did not "shake their heads, and go back home." They will understand the rarity and value of humanity even if too many members of our own species do not.

S

# Sandor Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am

Ah, here it is again: The “humanity sucks” meme. Mention aliens in a conversation and someone inevitably spews forth this steaming puddle of pessimism and self-loathing. As if ANY species climbing the ladder of sentience isn’t going to have to go through a technological and sociological adolescence similar to the one we’re experiencing now.

There is nothing inherently cruel, evil, or stupid about human beings. Individuals can exhibit those characteristics (and worse) but as a species we have made nothing but progress, and some of that progress has been quite remarkable. In 5000 years - far less than the blink of an eye in cosmic terms - we’ve come from stone tools to space shuttles, from shell beads to The Sistine Chapel. Those who don’t grasp the Earth-shaking significance of such achievement lack a useful sense of perspective; they only see the world through their own narrow, negative porthole.

Even if our technological advancement is unimpressive to hypothetical aliens - which is not a given, by the way - our art, biology, and historical perspective would still be worthy of close, intense scrutiny. Life is almost certainly uncommon in the universe, and intelligent life rare in the extreme. A chance to study, and possibly contact, an alien species would not be taken lightly regardless of how seemingly primitive its technology or petty its wars.

I don’t believe that there are aliens watching us simply because I’ve seen no solid evidence of it. But if an alien race has found us, I assure you that they did not “shake their heads, and go back home.” They will understand the rarity and value of humanity even if too many members of our own species do not.

S
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At the very least, even a super-advanced alien would be able to enjoy America's Funniest Home Videos. Crotch pain is a universal language.

Sandor, I was not going with the "humanity sucks" angle, so much as what we do to each other is horrible. I agree with you completely about what we have accomplished, and are even still going to accomplish. It was more of a "the aliens cannot do more to us than we do to ourselves" scenario.

There is great value in the human race, and what we can and have accomplished. I do not have a narrow/negative point of view on everything. You have to admit though, that humans really do tend to treat each other rather poorly.

@ Jensweet
My wife is just fine with me slowly torturing my son to the brink of insanity, years ago I convinced her that is the only key to being truly creative.

@Sandor w/Sandor
I completely agree. Human beings are, for the most part, a successful species and we assuredly have followed a similar path of progress as any other species that rules its planet. While we may be young as a species and thus as a civilization, we still resemble the same stages that another civilization would have progressed through.

BUT....

In my recent years I came accross a concept that baffled me and made me feel warm. It is possible that aliens have visited our world a TON. It is even possible that they exist in our daily lives. What is also possible is that we do not recognize them to be aliens, we do not recognize/"classify" their visiting as visiting. It is possible that they are sending communications just a hop skip and a jump away from us but we do not recognize their form of communication as communication.
It is highly unlikely that an alien civilization will pop on the local Fm and say, WASSUP. It is more likely that we will need to communicate in mathematics for the initial contact and even more likely that the mathematics/physics and all sciences for that matter will not directly translate to their over all existence. Do I think we will make contact with Aliens? Sure, why not? But we will need to advance our universal languages.

http://xkcd.com/

Today's XKCD is mildly relevant. This is the greatest web comic of all time. Anyone who says other wise is a liar and directly responsible for the rise of communism in America.

Did someone just pimp this column in a library or something?

The universe is vast, in both space AND time. Even a super advanced intergalactic civilization would rise and fall in an eye's blink of cosmic time. The odds of a confluence of two races achieving sentience in the same time frame AND being able to locate each other are so infinitesimal as to be, for all intents and purposes, 0.

Borag Thungg, Earthlets!!

The grexnix 'coh yoe tee' has amused me for soem time with his zarjaz column. Scrotnig article after scrotnig article.

"The.." of course was my favourite. Such poetry.

But quaequam blag! He froths like a nonscrot with this latest pifflage!! No wise and sentient alien species?? Clamdrash! Knowing me as you do, that's herecy!

The squaxx dek Thargo are watching you, coh yoe tee.

Splundig vur thrigg!!
Tharg the Mighty

Ah wus probed by an alien.

Mexican ah thank he was..

Badion Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am

In my recent years I came accross a concept that baffled me and made me feel warm. It is possible that aliens have visited our world a TON. It is even possible that they exist in our daily lives. What is also possible is that we do not recognize them to be aliens, we do not recognize/”classify” their visiting as visiting. It is possible that they are sending communications just a hop skip and a jump away from us but we do not recognize their form of communication as communication.
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It is also possible that faeries populate the woods behind my apartment but vanish into Arcadia anytime someone looks for them. Or that the Earth was created in seven days just a few thousand years ago, and I am therefore going to hell for heresy. It is even possible that in his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. These are all evidence-free suppositions, and nothing you've proposed above is any different.

In order for a supposition to rise even to the level of a hypothesis - which itself precedes a theory - there has to be a way to test it. Since there is no way for us to so test the idea you've presented, it is a matter of belief (faith) not a matter of science (reason). Saying that aliens exist all around us but we can't see them is no different from saying the same thing about ghosts or gods. All you've done here is replace an old mythology with a new one; this is fine in science fiction (Babylon 5 used it to great effect) but it proposes nothing in the way of science.

The sheer size of the universe, coupled with the fact that the building blocks of life seem relatively common within it, makes it likely that alien life does exist somewhere. But those same factors - plus a whole host of others - also make it likely that complex, intelligent life is very, very rare. There is no way to know exactly how rare without a lot more information, but ALL of today's leading hypotheses agree that we do not live in a crowded, Star Trek-like universe. You may believe in benevolent-aliens-among-us if you like, Badion, but keep in mind that that IS a belief. If you can't test it and offer evidence, then it's faith. Not science.

S

I wonder, Coyote. If alien women carried their bosoms in the groin area, would you still want to see them?

I am Sandor-lite. I say what he says, in about 10% of the words. I'm like his Cliffs Notes.

I appreciate the feedback. But I never stated that I BELIEVE that aliens are among us. In addition, I recognize, that my statement is a matter of belief and not science. However, the theory that things are made up of tiny little particles we can't see started as a belief in this exact matter. I merely pointed out that our current technological state most likely prevents us from being able to communicate with any communications we may be receiving. My theory varies merely in application to that set forth by the Atomist in the early days of Greek science and philosophy.

# Darammer Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

The universe is vast, in both space AND time. Even a super advanced intergalactic civilization would rise and fall in an eye’s blink of cosmic time. The odds of a confluence of two races achieving sentience in the same time frame AND being able to locate each other are so infinitesimal as to be, for all intents and purposes, 0.
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I essentially agree. The only caveat I would add here is that there's an awful lot we simply don't know yet. Perhaps at some level of technological development - thousands or millions of years ahead of where we are now - it becomes possible to quickly and effectively search entire galaxies for intelligent life. Or perhaps some alien civilizations reach a stability that allows them to endure indefinitely, existing for billions of years without the rise-and-fall pattern that dooms lesser species. We simply can't say for sure, because all the evidence isn't in.

But if forced to judge purely on what we DO know, I would agree with Dar. Even two civilizations in the same galaxy are likely to exist tens of thousands of light-years apart in space and millions of years apart in time. It seems probable that this will preclude meaningful contact between different alien species.

S

I believe that aliens exist, but the way I found my proof still makes my mother scratch her head.

So as a kid I had a children's bible, and one day i was reading one of the books of the old testament, and i came upon a passage that was going on about how God was upset about all the bad in the world. But there were two people who were good, and as he said he would not destroy the world again after the flood he took those two people. It says they did not die, but they no longer existed on this world. So I came to the conclusion that God put them on another planet so they could form the "perfect world" that he wanted. My preacher didn't like my conclusion, and I said well hey at least I'm brainwashed enough to think that if any other life is out there God created them too.

I was asked to leave Sunday school class.

So....you guys are actually saying Michael Jackson is human?

Theres a line Darksear....

or, with Micheal, not so dark

I believe in chipmunks, squirrels, and a few others things especially in ghosts ran into a few in my time

[Stuff about aliens]

Maybe they did take a peek at Earth, but didn't want to disturb our progress. Or, like some sci-fi writing, they're waiting for us to reach a certain technology level...say, space travel.