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What will ETs be like?
- Thread starter IamGroot
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It's the Earth they've inhabited, been here a long time:
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Why does it seem increasingly likely?
What will ETs be like?
Currently low 13's. Soon to be in the 12's.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Currently low 13's. Soon to be in the 12's.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
We're an underdeveloped planet. The Prime Directive prohibits them from making first contact.
What do they want? - They like sushi and this planet (Earth) has the best sushi in the universe.
What are they like? - They're just like you and me, only with more intelligence. But, I have to wonder why they come here, as earthlings are of far lower intelligence, more like dogs compared to them.
What is their favorite music? - Their favorite music is Holst's The Planets, and Midnight Oil's Earth and Sun and Moon.
Hope this helps.
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Alkali Ike
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They may very well be here, and could have been for a long time. Most people are expecting aliens to appear humanoid, with two eyes, one nose, one mouth, etc, and walk upright on two legs.
They may be anything but...instead could be a non-carbon life form that slithers along or crawls on however many appendages it may have. It could be invisible in the spectrum of light that humans can see. It may or not need to breathe. Perhaps some ETs are living at the bottom of our oceans and have been doing so for millennia.
Or not.
They may be anything but...instead could be a non-carbon life form that slithers along or crawls on however many appendages it may have. It could be invisible in the spectrum of light that humans can see. It may or not need to breathe. Perhaps some ETs are living at the bottom of our oceans and have been doing so for millennia.
Or not.
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I can't directly address the OP's question, would be a TB rule violation. Suffice to say John Carpenter's 1980s movie "They Live" seems more relevant than ever.
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A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
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A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
Consider physics. As I understand Einstein's work on this, Unless they can travel through wormholes, defeating the time bending aspect of traveling lightyears at warp, there is no practicality to being here. Like, by the time they get here, and report back home, years, or centuries or even millennia will have passed back home: time passes normally at home where a century at home is like a day when you travel at warp.
So information will be many years past what the intention was in coming here. It doesn’t add up that a civilization would send out explorers so far that time becomes an issue. By the time information gets home, home may have forgotten you were even out there at all.
I don’t buy it. You’d have to have full control of time - space. So that demands wormhole travel. It may be a thing, but I’m unconvinced that they could manipulate wormholes to appear where needed to enter and control where they terminate for exit at destination.
Ps. They are Tribbles. Sorry @Gorn.
So information will be many years past what the intention was in coming here. It doesn’t add up that a civilization would send out explorers so far that time becomes an issue. By the time information gets home, home may have forgotten you were even out there at all.
I don’t buy it. You’d have to have full control of time - space. So that demands wormhole travel. It may be a thing, but I’m unconvinced that they could manipulate wormholes to appear where needed to enter and control where they terminate for exit at destination.
Ps. They are Tribbles. Sorry @Gorn.
