alien life possibility is pathetic

[makaya325]

But we've explored 100% of the oceans, right?

Russia, Greenland, and Antarctica, as far as I know, are pretty well-explored. South America is decently explored as well, although there's some barriers.

Russia is huge! Most of it is untouched wilderness. Do you know what smelly friend lives there?

 

[Mitchell314]

Not really. What about south america? Russia? Antartica? Greenland?

You're kidding, right? People have gone to all those places and made some sort of documentation and mapping to a degree. It would be unlikely that we haven't come across fairies/bigfoot/leprechauns before and we all of the sudden find them now. For space, we are literally blind to anything current (relative to how long we've developed the radio).

 

[kitakaze]

Kitz=miss degroot on married with children

Nice response to a simple demo of one of your hilarious 180's. That one took only about an hour and you didn't even notice. I'm going to put a collection of them together and show you what a librarian I can be.

 

[Z]

The chance of discovering some form of previously unknown life decreases as the availabe area in which to search decreases. The percentage of Earth explored - let's, just out of our posteriors, say, 65% - renders the chances of finding some previously unknown life form somewhat low. That 65%, by the way, takes oceans into account as well, so let's say, for land, we're talking closer to 80%.

Meanwhile, we've explored less than one one-millionth of our universe. Probably far less than that. This means the chances of finding some previously unknown life form is considerably higher - though, of course, the vastness of space and limited technology of our planet lowers that chance, as well.

The chance of there BEING such a previously unknown lifeform in the universe is exceptionally higher than there being a previously unknown lifeform on earth.

On earth, the chance of there being a previously unknown lifeform is, in general, pretty good - when you're discussing small, nearly microscopic oceanic life, for example. But get specific - say, claiming that a slightly-larger-than-man-sized primate is hiding in the northern woods of North America or the shrinking swamps of Florida - and the chance is so low that it is safe to claim such a creature is 'highly unlikely'. Never impossible - no, never close the doors to possibility.

In space, though, even if you want to claim that life is a one-in-a-trillion chance happening, it's almost a certainty. Not a complete certainty - never close the doors on impossibility, either. But we don't even know for sure what constitutes the primary requirements for life to exist on our OWN planet; and of those requirements we ARE aware of, we cannot in any way rule out the possibility that those requirements have come together dozens of times in each galaxy we observe, and all the galaxies we haven't observed.

Maybe once we've spread out, settled the mainstream mid-range stars in our own galaxy, put exploration teams out in the more off-centered stars, supergiants, etc... maybe then we might be justified in claiming that the possibility of finding some previously unknown form of life IN OUR GALAXY is highly unlikely - but even then, we won't be able to rule out other life forms across the universe.

 

[makaya325]

The chance of discovering some form of previously unknown life decreases as the availabe area in which to search decreases. The percentage of Earth explored - let's, just out of our posteriors, say, 65% - renders the chances of finding some previously unknown life form somewhat low. That 65%, by the way, takes oceans into account as well, so let's say, for land, we're talking closer to 80%.

Meanwhile, we've explored less than one one-millionth of our universe. Probably far less than that. This means the chances of finding some previously unknown life form is considerably higher - though, of course, the vastness of space and limited technology of our planet lowers that chance, as well.

The chance of there BEING such a previously unknown lifeform in the universe is exceptionally higher than there being a previously unknown lifeform on earth.

On earth, the chance of there being a previously unknown lifeform is, in general, pretty good - when you're discussing small, nearly microscopic oceanic life, for example. But get specific - say, claiming that a slightly-larger-than-man-sized primate is hiding in the northern woods of North America or the shrinking swamps of Florida - and the chance is so low that it is safe to claim such a creature is 'highly unlikely'. Never impossible - no, never close the doors to possibility.

In space, though, even if you want to claim that life is a one-in-a-trillion chance happening, it's almost a certainty. Not a complete certainty - never close the doors on impossibility, either. But we don't even know for sure what constitutes the primary requirements for life to exist on our OWN planet; and of those requirements we ARE aware of, we cannot in any way rule out the possibility that those requirements have come together dozens of times in each galaxy we observe, and all the galaxies we haven't observed.

Maybe once we've spread out, settled the mainstream mid-range stars in our own galaxy, put exploration teams out in the more off-centered stars, supergiants, etc... maybe then we might be justified in claiming that the possibility of finding some previously unknown form of life IN OUR GALAXY is highly unlikely - but even then, we won't be able to rule out other life forms across the universe.

Thanks for a reasonable post!

 

[Lonewulf]

Russia is huge! Most of it is untouched wilderness.

Ah. So no one's done any mapping of it, especially the local Russians. Got it. There's just a big empty space that says "No Man's Land".

Do you know what smelly friend lives there?

Vladimir Putin?

 

[Hitch]

Ah. So no one's done any mapping of it, especially the local Russians. Got it. There's just a big empty space that says "No Man's Land".

"Here there be dragons."

 

[makaya325]

Ah. So no one's done any mapping of it, especially the local Russians. Got it. There's just a big empty space that says "No Man's Land".



Vladimir Putin?

No, the almasti

 

[Lonewulf]

No, the almasti

The thing that should be put into the "loony bin" with belief in the possibility of alien life?

 

[makaya325]

The thing that should be put into the "loony bin" with belief in the possibility of alien life?

If people criticize the possibility of unknown species, its only fair to lump god and alien life into the loony bin with the rest.

 

[Bell]

If people criticize the possibility of unknown species, its only fair to lump god and alien life into the loony bin with the rest.

Works both ways, you know?

 

[makaya325]

Works both ways, you know?

Yep. If certain phenomona people dont understand are tossed into the loony bin, then its only fair to lump god and aliens too

 

[Lonewulf]

So now you're back on your "This has all been just to get you guys to accept bigfoot!" tactic.

 

[Bell]

Yep. If certain phenomona people dont understand are tossed into the loony bin, then its only fair to lump god and aliens too

Yes, you said that allready.

So, if we keep unknown species (ie. bigfoot) out of the loony bin, then it is only fair to keep alien life out of it as well.

 

[Mitchell314]

Yep. If certain phenomona people dont understand are tossed into the loony bin, then its only fair to lump god and aliens too

Let's put an end to this once and for all. If there was a race of Bigfeet, we would have seen them enough that it would be common knowledge of them. Which is contrary to reality, as we have not had credible empirical records. For LGM, it's a low chance that we would have met them if they exist.

 

[LarianLeQuella]

makaya, you are Epically Failing in so many ways that even if I were charitable enough to expain them to you, you still wouldn't understand it....

That said, I'm NOT going to be charitable. You have time and again shown yourself to be an arrogant punk that really doesn't deserve a rational explanation. Until you educate yourself, stop posting in the manner you have posted consistently, and frankly apologize for your rudeness, the only use for your threads is for OTHER people to have a discussion in.

Your assertion that these are things we don't understand is again exposing your ignorance....

We understand the way large mamals behave in the wild, and the sort of indicators they would give much better than we understand abiogenisis.

 

[makaya325]

Let's put an end to this once and for all. If there was a race of Bigfeet, we would have seen them enough that it would be common knowledge of them. Which is contrary to reality, as we have not had credible empirical records. For LGM, it's a low chance that we would have met them if they exist.

No we would not have seen them, since more people are armchaired than outsdoorsman. And people HAVE seen them

 

[makaya325]

Yes, you said that allready.

So, if we keep unknown species (ie. bigfoot) out of the loony bin, then it is only fair to keep alien life out of it as well.

Exactly.

Im am biased as ****! Deal with it. Yes, i said it!

 

[Lonewulf]

Exactly.

Im am biased as ****! Deal with it. Yes, i said it!

I don't mind you being biased. Most people on this forum are biased in one way or another.

However, your bias is very inconsistent. You seesaw from one argument to another, to the point where, I don't buy your bias on ANY topic, because I never know if you're telling the truth or not.

 

[Lonewulf]

No we would not have seen them, since more people are armchaired than outsdoorsman. And people HAVE seen them

Yet no remains, most of the footage has been shown to be faked (Penn and Teller demonstrated how easy it was to fake Bigfoot footage), and is ALWAYS blurry and vague. No body, no skeleton, no fossils, no signs at all.