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PanzerIV

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If there are intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, which I am sure there are, having a visit from them might not be such a good thing. First, if they invaded Earth who knows if we could stop them? I doubt it would be as easy as the movie Signs. Secondly, they could come as friends but unwittingly release some type of virus or bacteria that kills all life because we have no known defenses to fight it off. Just like happened to millions of tribes in the "New World," the Caribbean and South America when Westerners visited. What comes around goes around...
 

TheAudit

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Originally posted by: kage69
Fool. Everyone knows Zanamoduff XII's only viable commercial commodity are it's vast number of SLERM refineries.

Dude, no one buys SLERMs anymore.
 

upsciLLion

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I read in Scientific American that some professionals are postulating that not only does life exist elsewhere in the universe, but because of the immense amount of matter, time, and space, that there are planets that are exact replicas of ours with people with our names doing the exact same thing that we are doing at the exact same moment.

Kind of far fetched, but given the premises presented in the article, it does make some logical and statistical sense.

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kage69

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think the major debate against the possibility of life somewhere else exists because if life did happen somewhere else, it causes a major problem with many religions.


Which is why they're all wrong... the human race fashions these easy-to-swallow, anthropomorphic explanations/stories hundreds of years ago, subjects them to continuous revision through the ages, and expects the end result to explain life the universe and everything...it's ridiculous and the height of arrogance.

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet."

If I saw some self-righteous, war-like arseh0les moving in down the street, I wouldn't be in a hurry to introduce myself.