we are so small
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- moth0
There's also that thought in my mind that alien life would be so far out of the reaches of our minds that you just wouldn't recognise it.
- dolphins ?GeorgesII
- good pointJamal_Jenkins
- indeed.Corvo2
- The whole concept of aliens that look even remotely like us sometimes seems silly, but at the same time, we look like we do for a reason apparently, so its entirely possible other creatures could evolve the same and end up similar to us.CygnusZero4
- WeLoveNoise0
i always think if we were ever to encounter something alien like, we wouldnt be able to accept/comprehend it
example - what if on another planet there was a new colour, something we would never be able to to percieve on this planet.
how would we take it ?
[dont say up the arse]
- moth0
No not dolphins. You can identify them as "life". I'm talking like something beyond us - like discovering that teapots are, in fact, aliens.
- sputnik20
exactly moth. we think life will be carbon-based, but it could be based on an entirely different element altogether. or they could've evolved into machines. i bet i'm not even in the neighbourhood since my frame of reference is so narrow.
- moth0
The best answer I think is computers. We're arrogant enough to think that we simply "made" these machines, whereas I'm increasingly convinced that they've actually evolved from us. We think they're 'fake' in a way - not real - not natural. Not a part of the scheme of things in the universe.
If we can't recognise aliens, we probably wont "see" that evolutionary leap coming until it's too late.
Or maybe I've watched terminator too many times.
- TheBlueOne0
A great brain gum scifi book about encountering types of intelligence we don't recognize:
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight…
Quite awesome if you are into such speculative things.
- thanks TBO!sputnik2
- it's available at my library...picking it up today :)
god i'm such a geeksputnik2 - let me know how you like it..it's ideas have stuck in my head..TheBlueOne
- moth0
Hmm. Maybe this is why my Mac wont just let me use black as a desktop colour. It's an inherently racist species of computer.
- GeorgesII0
I'm going crazy about the concept of "time" these days
it took me 3 months to find a book my dad used to have but I did it.
its called
"Le callendrier / histoire du monde" by philippe Vidal
(editions traditionelles, 1978)
it is the most interesting book on the concept of time you'll find out there because it explains all the different calendar used since the men started tracking time.
btw its in french- je ne savais pas que tu est francais, ou tu parles francais. salut! je vais essayer de trouver ce livre.sputnik2
- salut sputnik (c'est pas un nom de shit ça?), oui je parle français mais je suis de la cote d'Ivoire, bonne chance
GeorgesII - moi aussi je parle francais, mais jai totallement oublier de l'ecrire.Kiko
- Corvo20
This is interesting too: