Aliens: Yay or Nay?

[Pixie Dust]

What say you?

Are they out there? Did the X-Files get it right?

[DoktorGreen]

Well they are definitely "in there". And there are definitely non-human entities right here. On other so-called planets, there are many species of life. But not in this frequency band.

[Pixie Dust]

I agree.  On all but one thing.  

Why would they need to be on another band?  Because you can't see them?  Do you expect them to look differently than you?  What if... They looked human?  

A game changer for sure.

It sounds like something out of a sci fi novel, I know.  But so do lots of other things lol but they're real as fck.  

Let's pretend aliens look like humans and are hiding among us.  Would that be significant to learn, or not?

The general population would be dcks.  Widespread fear.  Laws would be invented to either hunt or protect the aliens (I'm still talking of the ET variety).  We cant even live in peace with other humans :/

How do we create a habitable environment so that ET doesn't need to phone home?

[Julio Juliopolis]

Pixie Dust wrote:
It sounds like something out of a sci fi novel, I know.  But so do lots of other things lol but they're real as fck.  

Let's pretend aliens look like humans and are hiding among us.  Would that be significant to learn, or not?

The general population would be dcks.  Widespread fear.  Laws would be invented to either hunt or protect the aliens.

... nah, the laws would be to protect the humans, but they would be over-zealously written to that purpose, such that they make life tough for the aliens. The politicians would demand stronger and stronger measures to expose these threats until one day the governments of the world all agree to make all the aliens remove their masks and reveal their true selves. Then, one by one, all of the people on Earth would unmask as we find that humans never really existed at all!

At least, that's how the book might continue if I were writing it. As to the original question, certainly there's "inner" or "extra-dimensional" aliens. Aliens life on other planets I suspect exists, but I'm less certain of.

[Pixie Dust]

I like that.

So going with your idea that all humans are alien, do you think they're all from the same colony or a combination of colonies?

Secondly, what if the mask removal wasn't a physical thing.. as in nothing to remove. What if it was a mental/intellectual/spirit thing...that made identification nonphysical?

[DoktorGreen]

Pixie Dust wrote:
I agree.  On all but one thing.  

Why would they need to be on another band?  Because you can't see them?  

Yes. Our senses and devices would pick them up if they vibrated in our band. They're there, just on a different frequency, like a different tv station.


Do you expect them to look differently than you?  What if... They looked human?  

A game changer for sure.

It sounds like something out of a sci fi novel, I know.  But so do lots of other things lol but they're real as fck.  

Let's pretend aliens look like humans and are hiding among us.  Would that be significant to learn, or not?

The general population would be dcks.  Widespread fear.  Laws would be invented to either hunt or protect the aliens (I'm still talking of the ET variety).  We cant even live in peace with other humans :/

How do we create a habitable environment so that ET doesn't need to phone home?

[Pixie Dust]

Thanks for clarifying the situation. I'll be sure to inform NASA who spends an enormous portion of the federal budget on such matters. They'll be thrilled to know you've solved their mystery. Congress will be quite pleased too. They'll finally be able to fund an investigation into whether Earth is flat!

[DoktorGreen]

Well it is!!!

[Pixie Dust]

Don't try being cute with me.  It won't work.  You're an evil man, trying to lure me in with cookies and sage advice (from other threads).  Get away from me you filthy halfblood!  I only deserve the best because I'm a princess.

-Act 39, scene 5 from the play Oh My!  I Have to Do All The Figuring Out Myself?!  I'm Not Doing the Work!

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In all seriousness, whether we're flat, round, cone, or otherwise... how would we know for sure?   pretty sure we're round, because the gov released all those pics from outer space and told us so.  I believe everything they say about the world xD until I'm an astronaut, I'll just assume it's round, but not be certain.  I mean, why be so sure about things?  Maybe....I'm wrong

[DoktorGreen]

Halfblood??? I should skewer you with a hot poker! Tie your legs in a knot and throw you overboard! Hang you from the rigging by your pinky toes! Feed you to the Kraken!

But you have a point. I'm only sure of the things I'm sure of. Never the government! Never the news! Never humans! So, not much.

[Pixie Dust]

Listen. This isn't an adult (rated) site. You gotta be discreet with that Kraken s&m talk. Tease me with a good time.. you heathen.

You're right, I should question everything.

[Guest]