Do you believe in aliens

[CoM_Solaufein]

We Americans have the ability to go into space and we could do more if we really wanted to. But I guess we like to spend X amount of dollars on defense as if the Cold War was still around. At the rate we humans are destroying the Earth, we need to get ourselves off this planet and move on to other worlds. This planet can only support so much life and technology*.

 

 

*Technology and all of the pollution that comes with it.

[Pidesco]

In Europe we spend more money on cosmetics than on defence!

 

I'd say that's a good thing: spending more money on things we enjoy than on ways to engage in war.

[Enoch]

We Americans have the ability to go into space and we could do more if we really wanted to. But I guess we like to spend X amount of dollars on defense as if the Cold War was still around. At the rate we humans are destroying the Earth, we need to get ourselves of this planet and move on to other worlds. This planet can only support so much life and technology*.

 

 

*Technology and all of the pollution that comes with it.

That's a ridiculous argument. If the entire human race worked as hard as it could with the explicit goal of actually destroying the Earth, it would still be the most habitable rock in the solar system. Humans do a lot better in a Nitrogen-Oxygen atmosphere with pollution/radiation/no ozone layer/whatever than they do in a Methane atmosphere (or no atmosphere at all). The only rational reasons to keep funding space exploration/colonization are pure scientific research and bragging rights.

[Walsingham]

There's only one argument to answer yours:

 

Pshaw!

 

*Puff puff*

[Tale]

In Europe we spend more money on cosmetics than on defence!

 

I'd say that's a good thing: spending more money on things we enjoy than on ways to engage in war.

What if we enjoy waging war? Ever thought about that, Mr. smarty cat?

 

One of these days it'll be awesome. We'll get fully bipedal and dextrous robots we can control from our homes after we get home from work that we'll use to conquer foreign nations as if we were playing a video game.

[chris the jedi killer]

I live in close proximity to one of the largest spook plane bases in America.

 

Yes, I've seen UFOs, no I don't believe any of them were otherworldly, yes I believe there is probably life on another planet someplace.

 

The more important question is how can we destroy them and take their stuff.

take their technology

[Walsingham]

In Europe we spend more money on cosmetics than on defence!

 

I'd say that's a good thing: spending more money on things we enjoy than on ways to engage in war.

What if we enjoy waging war? Ever thought about that, Mr. smarty cat?

 

One of these days it'll be awesome. We'll get fully bipedal and dextrous robots we can control from our homes after we get home from work that we'll use to conquer foreign nations as if we were playing a video game.

 

I thought that's what I WAS doing! Lousy stupid Dawn of War. I want my money back!

[Guest The Architect]

I believe there is some other {maybe, no probably more than one} planet out there in the Universe that's similar to Earth: inhabited by humans, monkeys, birds, insects, fish and what not. Well something along those lines anyway.

Edited August 13, 2007 by The Architect

[Aram]

Here's another question: what if there are other intelligent life-forms, but we're the best there is?

I would guess the universe is going to be pretty damned if we're the best there is.

 

My point is that we're always fantasising about some super-race coing from teh stars to save us. But what if that is our allotted destiny, so to speak? What if we have the seeds of greatness, and we squander it on spening 100s of times more money on cosmetics than on space exploration? Because we do. In Europe we spend more money on cosmetics than on defence!

 

If that is our destiny, I think it's more likely that we'd become the race that invades a planet, exterminates its populace, and saps it dry for its resources.

[Walsingham]

You mean we turn the martians into face-cream?

[OverPowered Godzilla (OPG)]

yes I believe in them. Anyone saying they don't exist have not exaimed all the evidence and CLEARLY the government has a large interest in them and considers them a huge threat. Even USA state mayors and such have said they have seen UFO's when they were told they don't exist. Millions of sighting in every country in the entire world...something is going on. '

[Daaave]

Has anybody made some sort of X-Files reference yet? I really can't be bothered with checking 8 pages for one you see.

[Musopticon?]

Yeah, there were a couple.

[Sand]

Belief is a silly thing. I much rather have simple empirical evidence, like one of their FTL space ships so I can get off this miserable lil' mudball.

[Fionavar]

Note: A wee prune has occurred ...

[thepixiesrock]

It was just a simple X-Files refference.

[Dark_Raven]

I believe is green dragons.

[Walsingham]

The green dragon believes in YOU, my dear.

 

EDIT: Does anyone else wonder whether Fionavar is nurturing us, or fattening us to eat?

[Dark_Raven]

I think he's fattening you up there big fella.

[Walsingham]

I think he's fattening you up there big fella.

 

*Ponders* then you think this molasses and nutmeg in a bottle, with the word 'marinade' crossed out and replaced with 'shampoo' might also be suspicious?

[Dark_Raven]