Aliens

also: how does either neoteny theory lead to most of freud? his deal was surely (right or wrong in any other way) the ousting of biology-as-destiny?

(bah i wish i had a schwa T-shirt w.THAT on it)

Haeckel drew pictures of embryonic/foetal development at various stages to show how a mammal looks like a fish in the eraly stages of devlopment in the womb, then later like a reptile, just like the evolutionary stages. Except that it doesn't. He saw what he wanted to see.

(bah i wish i had a schwa T-shirt w.THAT on it)

I miss the Schwa Corporation stuff...

NO ONE DID SEE :(

It's more likely than not that there have been millions of civilizations somewhere among the hundreds of billions of stars within a hundred thousand light years of Earth, i.e., in this galaxy alone. It isn't more likely than not that any of them have found their way to this insignificant little world, even though it was more than 60 years ago that the democrats nuked Japan, thereby sending an electromagnetic pulse into space announcing that we have some technologically brilliant scientists and some sociopaths here. If we humans had evidence of such shenanigans on another planet, we'd be hard at work trying to find a way to go out there and have a look, working around the fact that our present knowledge says that it can't be done in anyone's lifetime.

As for believing in alien visitation...there are millions of people right now in this country who believe that a grandiloquent, done-nothing mediocre senator whose only notable accomplishment has been emphasizing a few of the myriad reasons why Bill Clinton's wife shouldn't be president, and who listened to two decades of anti-America vitriol from his "spiritual guide" without lifting a finger in his country's defense, ought to be Commander in Chief. Such people shouldn't have any trouble believing in extraterrestrians or anything else. If Barack Hussein Obama, a gifted orator (a complete description), tells them the aliens are teen-aged space-Mormon "elders" sent here to preach the joys of polygamy, they'll believe it.

i am totally copping that line of argument sometime

Isn't someone going to show a "real" living Ailien on video somewhere today? Denver or something?

Where did I read this? Don't remember

Denver Man Makes Alien Claim

Call me a doubter, but I'm a little skeptic.

http://simianfarmer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/lackoffaith.jpg

Call me a doubter, but I'm a little skeptic.

http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/LittleGerman.7.19.06.jpg

Alien will be mans dog in wearing a hat.

(a complete description)

Total number of alien/ufo photographs = directly proportional to amount of Adobe Photoshop Torrent downloads

pic leaked from press conference!

http://pieceoplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/darth-vader-dog-costume.jpg

It's a lot worse than I feared: it's not even a good fake.

http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_9427587

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2008/0530/20080530_012652_Alien.jpg

that fake alien is evidently a total perv, as well

Compare with this deliberate fake video:

http://www.rockymountainparanormal.com/ufo/alienwindowfinal.mp4

(from http://www.rockymountainparanormal.com/ufo/ )

Alien will be mans dog in wearing a hat.

-- Jarlrmai, Friday, May 30, 2008 3:25 PM (6 hours ago)

or chaki in a bra

It was unclear whether the creature was taller than 8 feet and was crouching to avoid detection or whether it was standing on something. It also was difficult, because of the faintness of the object, to tell whether it was three dimensional.

Is this just sarcasm or is the journo really 'unclear'?

http://i27.tinypic.com/1115abo.jpg

(xpost)

Just what we needed to see.

The image of either a super tall ET ducking down below a window ledge or a smaller one standing on a box to peep at some teenagers is pretty funny though.

oh man i want to see this stan romanek video so bad

haha i love the way that alien in the window just rapidly zooms off at the end.

i love terribly executed hoaxes

the start of a viral publicity campaign for the new x-files movie?

stan tiger romanek

Scary!

http://cbs3.com/topstories/finger.new.jersey.2.1118935.html

Useful accompanying image.

"Did ancient manicurists drop this finger?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Qpm2BOJuE

?

A tiny ball made from titanium and vanadium "with a 'gooey' biological liquid oozing from its centre" found in the upper atmosphere, it sounds like standard click-bait bollocks but it is quoting an eminent nobel prize winning microbiologist so maybe quite credible.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/aliens-may-have-sent-seeds-create-life-earth-claims-british-scientist-1488081?

cool will read

first reaction its a bloody marketing ploy for Prometheus bloody two tho

ah wikipedia

Also, he has claimed that the red rain in Kerala is a biological entity, which is huge if true.[6]

Lol The microbiologist they are quoting has been dead for a decade!

there's a lot if that on ilx recently, cf rolling obit thread.

maybe ilx is purgatory and anyone we mention can reliably be presumed deceased by now

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directed panspermia as a potential origin of life on earth is interesting

it's also compelling, to me, to you bake in the notion that there are alien communication signals out there that we've yet to develop the capacity to collect--as if the seeds were planted with a tape recorder, and barring a downward shift in technological development we plants might any day now figure out how to press play

Modern views of abiogenesis (esp recent ones focused on deep sea alkaline hydrothermal vents) are adequate to account for an independent arising of microbes on Earth some 3.8-4.3 billion years ago, and there's no extant evidence of latter arrivals. All life uses essentially the same energy apparatus and genetic code, though there are enough differences between Eubacteria (on one side) and Archaea / Eukaryotes to suggest DNA replication and membrane synthesis either diverged extremely early or had two independent origins.

That's not to say that it had to be on Earth. Earth gets peppered with bolide ejecta from Mars on a regular basis, and some microbes seem to survive long passages through the radiation and vacumn of space. It's plausible that life first originated on Mars, and supplanted feeble early attempts on Earth; or vice versa. Moreover, the solar system regularly passes through regions of higher stellar density, where life conceivably could be exchanged between systems. Enough generations of this, with sufficiently durable microbes, and in time every remotely habitable planet in the galaxy could be exposed to life from a single origin. Not directed panspermia, just the numbers game of nonnillion microbes on Earth, trillions ejected into space, handfuls still viable upon landing elsewhere. That may be the fate of our galaxy. More terrifyingly, its plausible that another, fundamentally more efficient form of microbial life could be making the rounds, and just hasn't landed here, yet.

As for the Fermi paradox, it appears complex life (eukaryotes) evolved only once on Earth. The universe may be teeming with microbes, but the transition to complex life is far more fraught. Intelligence doesn't seem much of a bulwark against environmental/civilizational collapse, indeed any evolved dominant species may follow have resource demand/social status perogatives incompatible with preserving its own cradle. And given any species that can dominate a planet is likely rapacious, those few that manage to adopt sustainable behavior, suitable to finite planets or colonization ships, may find preemptively exterminating others an imperative. The smarter species, recognizing this, would lay low, and not broadcast their presence.

i’m with terence mckenna, mushrooms are extraterrestrial in origin

*sees through time, dies*

Astronomers have spotted a second repeating fast radio burst, and it looks a lot like the first. The existence of a second repeating burst suggests there could be many more of the mysterious signals in the cosmos.

The burst, called FRB 180814.J0422+73, is one of 13 newly discovered fast radio bursts, or FRBs — brief, bright signals of radio energy that come from distant galaxies. The FRBs were detected over a few weeks last year by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, in British Columbia. Astronomers reported the discoveries at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 7 and in the Jan. 9 Nature.

Most such bursts erupt once, last for a few milliseconds, and are never seen again. So astronomers have puzzled over what causes them for years.

“If you have something that flashes for a millisecond in the sky, and there’s nothing that happens for many years, it’s really hard to study,” says astronomer Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University in Montreal, a member of the CHIME team....

Astronomers’ theories for what causes FRBs are almost as numerous as known FRBs themselves. At one point, astronomers even considered the idea that FRBs could be signals from intelligent aliens. But it’s unclear if the repeating bursts and single bursts both come from the same kinds of sources, or even if one-offs might also repeat if watched for long enough.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/second-repeating-fast-radio-burst-tracked-distant-galaxy

"Calculations show that the new repeater is about 1.6 billion light-years away. The CHIME team also saw an odd similarity between the two known repeating bursts. Most FRBs are just a sharp blip, akin to a single note being played on a trumpet. But some of the individual bursts in both repeaters were made up of multiple sub-bursts that descended in frequency, like the “wah wah wah wah” of a sad trombone."

I think someone is bouncing our old sitcom soundtracks back to us

hey guys
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/