we are so small
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- Corvo20
This is interesting too:
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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.
- 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
No not dolphins. You can identify them as "life". I'm talking like something beyond us - like discovering that teapots are, in fact, aliens.
- 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
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
- CygnusZero40
Yeah, there may be something out there beyond the universe that makes everything within it seem so small. Maybe all the planets and stars are just cells of a much larger organism.
- The Marvel Multiverse?TheBlueOne
- It's fascinating to think about, and endlessly irritating that none of us will ever know the truth.CygnusZero4
- moth0
Even if intelligent life had broken the lightspeed barrier, it wouldn't matter - lightspeed is still pretty damn slow when you're trying to traverse the Universe.
Further to that, intelligent, Universe traversing life could have had it's day already. Starwars could've been and gone. We could be the proverbial cockroaches who inherited the Universe after every other form of life destroyed itself.
- GeorgesII0
^
maybe they are here, maybe they've been here even before us, we don't know and we never will be sure, but like many people out there I've had my share of interesting event happen to me and it opened my eyes on what is seen and what is occulted,
I know how skepticism works, even if there are scientific proofs, you'll find deniers, its inside the human nature.
I don't remember who said it, but it somewhat like this"in the past people were overly superstitious, but now he'is overly skeptical,
none of these views are correct because we can not separate science from spiriuality and spirituality from science,
when men will learn to conjugate them he will be granted the secret to eternal life"
- Mal0
Small but big as the universe at the same time.
Eames: Powers of 10
- WeLoveNoise0
with all those trillions of stars/galaxies - assuming there is intelligent life out there, i'm suprised they havent broken the lightspeed barrier before us.
its arguments like this that make me wonder whether the skeptics r true
- Not_Just_Another0
- Great book. You should check out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi, you'd dig.TheBlueOne
- boobs0
Yeah, the universe is enormous. But what are you going to do about it?
- utopian0
VY Canis Majoris
It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 Quadrillion) earths to fill VY Canis Majoris. The diameter of VY Canis majoris is Est. 3,063,500,000 km.
- hellogoodbye0
jeeeeesuuus!!
at some point I lost all points of reference and they all became multicolored circles to me.
- Anders0
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
(EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065…