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Turbo10k wrote:Life can come in any shape or form. Change environment just a little bit (surface in L.A. vs 10 meters deep in the same bay) and see how life can adopt different life forms (ie the difference between a drunk nerd and seaweed)...now thats still on the West Board of the US, still on Earth, still orbiting the same sun...Now imagine a few lightyears away...Or rather, stop imagining. Your mind ain't broad enough.
Turbo10k wrote:Life can come in any shape or form. Change environment just a little bit (surface in L.A. vs 10 meters deep in the same bay) and see how life can adopt different life forms (ie the difference between a drunk nerd and seaweed)...now thats still on the West Board of the US, still on Earth, still orbiting the same sun...Now imagine a few lightyears away...Or rather, stop imagining. Your mind ain't broad enough.
you talkin' to me bro???
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Yes man!
We are invincible for we are Legion! - some nutty cyborg
This!Is!Sparta! - some crazed spartan Stop!Shouting!For!Everything!Gaaargh! -some guy with a headache
Human brains are not wired to extrapolate logical connections between pieces of information (however unreliable) without experience based on real events, examples and memories...though crack and weed bypass the LOGICAL part of the imagination part.
Example #1: It is very easy to imagine what an underwater alien living far far away looks like...fish have designed the optimum shape for underwater travel, so physics says if we're still dealing with water, the optimum shape remains the same. Result: fish aliens look like...fish!
Example #2: How would an alien living in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter look/work/live like? I dunno! Where on earth do you have an environment filled with radiation, gaseous for a few thousand kilometers deep, very low pressurised and with little to no sunlight? Oh, and with completely different chemical composition? You find it! Then find the creature that lives there...then extrapolate logical links from THAT...!!
We are invincible for we are Legion! - some nutty cyborg
This!Is!Sparta! - some crazed spartan Stop!Shouting!For!Everything!Gaaargh! -some guy with a headache
Turbo10k wrote:Human brains are not wired to extrapolate logical connections between pieces of information (however unreliable) without experience based on real events, examples and memories...though crack and weed bypass the LOGICAL part of the imagination part.
Example #1: It is very easy to imagine what an underwater alien living far far away looks like...fish have designed the optimum shape for underwater travel, so physics says if we're still dealing with water, the optimum shape remains the same. Result: fish aliens look like...fish!
Example #2: How would an alien living in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter look/work/live like? I dunno! Where on earth do you have an environment filled with radiation, gaseous for a few thousand kilometers deep, very low pressurised and with little to no sunlight? Oh, and with completely different chemical composition? You find it! Then find the creature that lives there...then extrapolate logical links from THAT...!!
We need something in this thread... hmmm... what could it be? Hmm... OH!!! RIGHT!!!
metallifan said: I almost wonder is "Matt Ward" another pen name for C.S. Goto?
metallifan said: The Imperium would probably love Hitler...
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Wow, to prove your point in imagination, you picked a piece of fiction that twists reality...badly....with bad cartoons...and swear words...hundreds of 'em!!
We are invincible for we are Legion! - some nutty cyborg
This!Is!Sparta! - some crazed spartan Stop!Shouting!For!Everything!Gaaargh! -some guy with a headache
metallifan said: I almost wonder is "Matt Ward" another pen name for C.S. Goto?
metallifan said: The Imperium would probably love Hitler...
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Well, men, this thread is...as dead the xenos will be when we find them! There IS life beyond earth...DEAD LIFE!
explain...?
also i thought about it last night actually and I laughed at the thought of us being the only intelligent species in the universe, on the only habitable planet in the universe thats just ridiculous..
