General / Off-Topic something's wrong with the alien narrative

[znôrt]

don't get fooled by the clickbait. wooot? you already did? [haha] ok, don't cry, i just watched this and it's worth it:

https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_webb_where_are_all_the_aliens

and it's a very straigthforward perspecitve i never suspected, which makes it doubly interesting. i think he makes a pretty solid case. i only fundamentally disagree with

Spoiler

the conclusion "we're alone". yes, we might be a 'winter civilization' and that's how sophisticated it could get in our galaxy/cluster, but this doesn't rule out less sphisticated civilizations or in general forms of life. actually, there are far fewer 'barriers' for that. and that just would dramatically increase our "responsibility".

 

[znôrt]

if some carbon based life form with access rights could just spell-check the title ...

 

[Shiro Akai]

Judging by the vid title - can't watch, at work atm - smells like Fermi Paradox. Not so long ago I saw YT vid about 10 solutions to that, almost all of them explain that topic pretty well.

In short - answer is distance.

 

[tafkabb]

if some carbon based life form with access rights could just spell-check the title ...

Got your back, Bro

 

[Necronaught]

Aliens are in fact fallen angels and the greys are demons commonly known as the spirits of the Nephalim. That's giants, the half human half angel hybrids that looted the earth in the antedeluvian era.

Think that is crazy? No more than Aliens.

 

[NorMonsta]

google ISAAC ARTHUR You tube series......lots on this topic as well as all other space stuff

 

[Stigbob]

Rep for the OP I like TED talks when I'm flying.

Do not ever listen to ones by nuclear warfare experts unless you grew up during the cold war and know how screwed we are already.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

That awkward moment when I tell you the details on my unicorn stuff.

 

[Zieman]

That awkward moment when I tell you the details on my unicorn stuff.

Hey, maybe you know why the creature is called unicorn, and not unihorn. At least I think all pics deciphering it have it sprout a horn (suspiciously like narwhal's big tooth), not a corn cob...

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Hey, maybe you know why the creature is called unicorn, and not unihorn. At least I think all pics deciphering it have it sprout a horn (suspiciously like narwhal's big tooth), not a corn cob...

Let's just say that my belief in unicorns & in ET's is the same thing.

You guys are smart, you know what I'm saying.

 

[Zieman]

Dang, you don't know either.

Oh well, have to file it under the ever-groving pile of "quirks of the English language that do not make any sense whatsoever".

I mean, what mushrooms were they eating when they thought: "This creature has one horn. Let's call it one-corn!" ? [wacky]

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Dang, you don't know either.

Oh well, have to file it under the ever-groving pile of "quirks of the English language that do not make any sense whatsoever".

I mean, what mushrooms were they eating when they thought: "This creature has one horn. Let's call it one-corn!" ? [wacky]

Oh I know alright.

You do not even want to know how much time I've spent looking at legend and myth of our two species.

 

[Stigbob]

Dang, you don't know either.

Oh well, have to file it under the ever-groving pile of "quirks of the English language that do not make any sense whatsoever".

I mean, what mushrooms were they eating when they thought: "This creature has one horn. Let's call it one-corn!" ? [wacky]

Uni = one and cornu = horn in ancient greek.

 

[Zieman]

Uni = one and cornu = horn in ancient greek.

Cheers!

 

[NorMonsta]

Hey, maybe you know why the creature is called unicorn, and not unihorn. At least I think all pics deciphering it have it sprout a horn (suspiciously like narwhal's big tooth), not a corn cob...

its a common misunderstanding that the "UNI" is in relation to the horn, however the real origin of the name is from the Magical ability for the beast to only ever have ONE ( and always ONE) piece of undigested corn in its excreta, only EVER one, every scientific scatalogical investigation got same result….true story