jumpercable said:
It's hard to believe that a group of superior advanced aliens lit up with LED's would travel from another planet hundreds of light years away in a space ship for the prime purpose of being videotaped buzzing a few canadian roof tops. As Mr. Spock would say; 'That's Illogical'. Maybe they came here to buy some George Foreman grills.
lets pause for moment and reflect on what
jumpercable says. perhaps an assist thru analogy and hoped for, good fit.
*prior to 9-11, i used to hang at van nuy airport, plane spotting (vintage on weekends)/ i had taken many a photo. the subsequent slideshows were an nightmare. i could not convince family of a very simple factual truth. the bombers were posing for me. they insisted it must have being doing something mundane and quite boring. like taking off, maybe even landing. some had the temerity to suggest they were
flying! whatever! woo woos!
*nicole kidman flies from beverly hills to melbourne for a photo shoot, hundreds of miles away. nicole baby, i know you are cheating on me. a big hollywood movie star would get the tard to come to her. it simply illogical to think otherwise.
dirty slut
on to
helio's response. allow me further license to tweak
Wildly fallacious.
You cant presuppose what an alien civilisation would or wouldnt do, can speculate till the cows come home of course but not much more than that.
"Argue that extraterrestrials would or wouldn't, should or shouldn't, can or can't behave in certain ways because such behavior would or wouldn't be logical. Base your notions of logic on how terrestrials would or wouldn't behave. Since terrestrials behave in all kinds of ways you can theorize whatever kind of behavior suits your arguments (dresin)"
this deal with ascribing all alleged et events as being one of necessity. eg: events follow a precise, rational and natural path, easily predicted. i mean, that is the hallmark of human activity yes?. are we not the epitome of logical and rational thought? of course. i have proof too. discount the following heading. it is merely weak posturing. the events presented? blatant and insidious falsehoods
Famous Blunders
a def------->A blunder is a spectacularly bad or embarrassing mistake—a bad decision with a disastrous result. This is a list of what are widely considered to be major, historically significant blunders.
*1941 - The Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 (December 8 in Japan standard time). Although the attack sunk or crippled numerous US Navy capital ships, many military historians consider the attack a long-term strategic blunder. For instance, the American aircraft carriers (a priority target) were absent, and the oil storage facilities and drydock naval repair yard (whose destruction could have crippled the Pacific Fleet's operating capacity) were untouched. Worst of all was the psychological effect: instead of discouraging the USA as intended, it enraged the American population.
*1972 – Five men working for Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) burgled the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. to sabotage Democratic candidate George McGovern's chances against Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. The burglary, and Nixon's participation in the extensive cover-up attempt, led to jail terms for several of Nixon's associates, and eventually caused Nixon to resign rather than face impeachment proceedings. The Watergate Scandal was especially bizarre, as Nixon was far ahead of McGovern in the polls at the time of the break-in, and ended up winning the election in a landslide.
*# 2001 – Shares in Exodus, a bankrupt internet firm, jumped by 59,000% when a rogue trader accidentally bid $100 for its shares, at a time when its value was 17 cents. (
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done? not by a long shot, kiddo
Mental Disorders in America
Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada for ages 15-44.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity. (eeek)
Of course we can pre-suppose. To say we can't is wild supposition in itself!
Why would aliens, such intelligent, technologically advanced aliens at that, differ from us so much that we could never understand their motivations?
To suggest such is just a cop out.
sure it is. please find the
person responsible, present along with
quote and i shall ridicule till the goddamn cows come home. do it. lots of fun to be had.
as for the question posed, allow me to present
thed and his
"super-intelligent shade of the colour blue"
Most skeptibunkers I've met across the Net are invariably graduates of Physics (as am I [1]) or a similar science. The first thing you learn in science is to lay aside pre-assumptions on how you think the Universe should behave. It's a point that has helped me many times in my real job, IT. Just because the manual says x causes y doesn't mean it does.
Perhaps more importantly, I have read prodigous amounts of SF and am more than conversant with the problem of Anthropormiphisation. To restate this, I've seen all manner of behavioural patterns ascribed to putative aliens. I can easily believe that a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue does exist out there. Aliens as depicted in Star Wars, Star Trek, Media SF are only nominally alien. Their physical appearance is different to appeal to the masses. I don't count myself amongst the masses.
So then, would a real extraterrestial behave differently to us Homo Sapiens. Of course they would. They have evolved in very different circumstances and under different evolutionary pressures. Why then don't they act alien? (thed)
i believe he is saying
"screw the frame of reference. lets mix and match"
blundered? never been gladder to accept charge
