Then where is everybody?
AFAICT, the only people the aliens want are Biblical prophets, and trailer park residents. And I for one am feeling mighty left out.
Regards,
Shodan
You used the term “space people” in your OP.
And, I am female. Goodbye, I’m outta here.
I can’t believe you missed the actual UFO Biblical reference, in Ezekiel Those dudes must have had some awesome 'shrooms.
But since Israel didn’t have any mountains for the gods to hide out on, not surprising they used the sky. No aliens needed. If aliens did come down, you’d think the least they could do was teach some decent cosmology.
Jaimiedarke, a few suggestions:
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Read a whole lot of posts in each board so you get familiar with what types of threads are in each. Something you don’t want to debate but merely want to expound upon would go in In My Humble Opinion, for instance.
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People posting in Great Debates usually demand cites for assertions presented as fact.
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Those cites should be generally recognized as credible and reliable and from generally recognized authorities. If, for instance, I were to say something like “The moon could easily be colonized,” and my cite is Gwyneth Paltrow, I should expect to be called out on it, as Paltrow is no expert and, in fact, is regarded as a bit flakey. It doesn’t matter if I think she’s an expert on colonization (which I don’t); she’s not generally recognized as one.
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You might want to hold back on the biting comments aimed at other posters. You managed to alienate Beckdawrek, who welcomed you and is one of the nicest people on these boards. Not good.
Probability is well on the side of alien existence. Existence within the timespan of recorded human history, and in forms we could communicate with, much less so.
Visiting here, more than doubtful.
Funding cuts, mostly.
But it is very unlikely that any major body of knowledge represented in the Library really vanished without a trace. We still possess thousands of ancient works from almost all literate civilizations in that period of history: the notion that “all the world’s history and knowledge” from those times was “lost” is sheer nonsense. And it’s equally absurd to suggest that all the ancient works with references to alien visitors somehow coincidentally disappeared and no extant works ever mentioned them.
There are no surviving ancient texts with descriptions of alien visitations because there never were any ancient texts with descriptions of alien visitations, because there never were any ancient alien visitations. That is by far the simplest and most probable explanation.
I disagree - witnessing belongs in Great Debates. And this is most definitely witnessing, and Great Debates is the appropriate place for us to Great Debate him into smoldering cinders.
As for this alien stuff, I for one don’t accept the bible as a source, and I believe that people even back into antiquity had the ability to make shit up. There is nothing that needs aliens to explain it.
Plus, this.
I personally expect you to leave. This board tends to be largely uninterested in crazy stuff, so people who are interested in finding like-minded folks of that type find the environment very unaccommodating. Since half the point of taking silly ideas to the internet is to be able to connect to enough like-minded people to be able to feel like you’re not alone, such people rarely linger long here - they prefer to wander off elsewhere to places where people agree with them.
You’re beating the curve, though - at least half the woo threads I’ve read around here, the OP drops their opening post and then never returns to reply to anybody. The internet version of sticking a flyer under a windshield wiper before moving on to the next car/forum.
Kimstu has pointed this out, but it is really to important a point to not do twice. What happened to the library is not all that relevant. It wasn’t some sort of magical single point of failure for knowledge available at the time. Its loss didn’t erase all knowledge of previous eras.
That fact that this fantastical take is the starting point of your rambling does not speak well for its quality.
Why were the records stored on flammable papyrus scrolls, instead of in nigh-indestructible holographic data crystals?
Jamiedarke, a question if I may.
Why haven’t they come back?
I don’t mean only appearing as blurs in grainy photographs or indistinct cell phone shots. I don’t mean the occasional person who gets abducted and probed. I mean the aliens who built the world’s civilizations. Why haven’t they come back to see how it’s worked out? Why haven’t they come back to New York or Moscow or Cairo at high noon and announce to the entire world, “You’ve done pretty well with the technology, but you’re really screwing up the environment, so focus on solar,” or something like that?
Are these aliens who turned a species of upright apes into Homo sapiens, who either built or taught us to build the Pyramids, Teotihuacán, Easter Island and other landmarks so remarkably uninterested in their legacy and so remarkably jaded that they don’t want to check up and/or brag?
Usually takes some time for the average person to accept that which draws them outside their comfort zone.
I believe there are quite a few million people who still believe that the earth is flat.
Have a nice day!
But many people claim they have seen one.
Púka, leprechauns, fairies yes and unicorns could well exist … you just haven’t been lucky enough to meet one.
Yo Telemark … that’s like soooo coohil … far out man!
You have a groovy day.
Good point citizen. Now how do I get out of this one? Hmmmmmm???
Oh I know! I meant that the fiction part was the dude in the bible going up to heaven in a “chariot.”
(Note to self. "Gotta be more careful in future cos citizen Manson is wide awake.)
Happy trails man.
I think the biggest sign of intelligent life in the universe is they are smart enough (so far anyways) to avoid this dive of a planet and the monkeys (hairless or not) that inhabit it
The contrast between New York, Moscow, Cairo and the Pyramids, Teotihuacán, Easter Island would suggest that these ‘aliens’ just ain’t all that advanced.
CMC fnord!
So Czar, how’s this for a probability then?
Scientists estimate that the Milky Way could contain upwards of 50 billion planets, 500 million of which could be habitable. And of course, this is only for our own galaxy. So if conditions were good for life on earth in this part of the cosmos, then why not on maybe one or two of the other planets?
I guess you might counter this argument by saying: “Okay that may be so, but I still haven’t seen an alien.”
Maybe you have.
Do have a cosmic day!
Jeeze Shodan don’t come down so hard on trailer park folk. Maybe due to their circumstances trailer residents don’t go out as much as others do.
Now don’t you feel left out … I could easily have ignored your post. I didn’t.
Hope you feel “in” now.
Do have a splendid day!