Despite being ridiculed for years I have been proved right about the aliens as Stephen Hawkings admits there are aliens and he has never been wrong as far as I know. I also agree that we need to be careful with them as they might be more developed than us and will abuse us and then move on. They will probably evern laugh at us. There was a programme lately that suggested Mars had life billions of years ago but they got bored with the planet and the constant heat so they moved off on big ships for a spin around the solar system, probably finding a patch to land on in another planet. And they're miles ahead of us. They would have discovered the internet a long time ago and probably have devised devices beyond our imagination. I'd say they'd be intimidating reading our minds and being taller and stronger, maybe living forever with false hearts and eyes. Maybe, just maybe, David Icke and boys like Ian Paisley and All Gore were right all along!!!
Contacting Aliens 'A Bad Idea', Warns Hawking
Aliens are very likely out there, according to eminent scientist Stephen Hawking - but we should keep quiet and hope they don't notice us.
In a new documentary for the Discovery Channel, the theoretical physicist warns against making contact with any extra-terrestrials.
Professor Hawking, who retired as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge last year, claims such space life would only abuse Earth's resources and move on.
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," he said.
"I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach."
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."
The documentary, which begins on May 9, explores the British scientist's vision of the universe.
While most aliens were in all probability simple organisms such as microbes, Professor Hawking said it would only take a few intelligent ones to spell disaster for humans.
"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he explained.
"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
QuoteThey would have discovered the internet a long time ago
*shakes head*
For me, the biggest unanswered question of all is, Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
The probability of finding life in Portadown.. whoops, sorry, I meant Black Hole... whoops, sorry, I meant to say the probability of finding other life in our universe is clearly laid out by the Drake equation:
http://www.lifeinuniverse.org/Drakeequation-07-02.html (http://www.lifeinuniverse.org/Drakeequation-07-02.html)
drake equation is for another life form in the universe trying to communicate with us- not that there is "something out there"
Quote from: Orior on April 26, 2010, 01:24:34 PM
For me, the biggest unanswered question of all is, Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
I want to call my lawyer.
For me, the biggest unanswered question of all is, Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Never mind that, who put the ram in the ram a lam a ding dong?
Quote from: Hedley Lamarr on April 26, 2010, 03:08:50 PM
For me, the biggest unanswered question of all is, Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Never mind that, who put the ram in the ram a lam a ding dong?
I categorically deny that I'm a serial monosyllable inserter.
Residents spot strange UFO lights
Residents in County Down have raised the possibility of a UFO sighting above the skies of Bangor.
Several callers to BBC Northern Ireland have reported a series of strange orange lights in the night sky.
Air traffic control at Belfast International Airport said it had also received reports about the sightings, including one from the Coastguard.
However, the airport said it had no record of any aircraft in the sky at the time.
The callers said the sightings had been made on Saturday evening.
Clifford Rossbottom from Bangor told the BBC: "There were three orange globes - nearly in a straight line - they were an absolutely fascinating sight.
"I watched them for five minutes, and then very slowly, they just disappeared.
"The only thing I thought it could have been was three high-flying aircraft.
"If that is not the case, then I have no idea, and the only other thing I can think of is in fact that they were UFOs."
BBC
In Hawkins famous for writing books to prove how his previus book was wrong?
Quote from: Zapatista on April 26, 2010, 05:30:26 PM
In Hawkins famous for writing books to prove how his previus book was wrong?
No, he's famous for writing books to prove how his next book will be right. ;)
Don't mind the slagging, Olly. Aliens do indeed exist and I saw loads of them in action yesterday. They were masquerading as Cork players and they knocked the bejasus out of my poor beloved Mayo!
There's no other way to explain how them big, nasty langers were able to be in two or three places at the same time and make most of the Mayo humans disappear for long spells.
im fairly sure hes most famous for being in a wheelchair and using a voicebox
Quote from: rosnarun on April 26, 2010, 07:41:33 PM
im fairly sure hes most famous for being in a wheelchair and using a voicebox
As far as I know he is the only man to play poker with both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
Quote from: muppet on April 26, 2010, 08:47:20 PM
Quote from: rosnarun on April 26, 2010, 07:41:33 PM
im fairly sure hes most famous for being in a wheelchair and using a voicebox
As far as I know he is the only man to play poker with both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
I think you forgot Data.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on April 26, 2010, 08:51:10 PM
Quote from: muppet on April 26, 2010, 08:47:20 PM
Quote from: rosnarun on April 26, 2010, 07:41:33 PM
im fairly sure hes most famous for being in a wheelchair and using a voicebox
As far as I know he is the only man to play poker with both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
I think you forgot Data.
Data isn't a man.
Chinese lanterns are one of the biggest causes of UFO sightings.
Quotedrake equation is for another life form in the universe trying to communicate with us- not that there is "something out there"
Okay so, of all the life forms out there, perhaps 0.01% might try to make contact. For people from Roscommon, thats the Drake number divided by 100.
(The rest live in an area with no signal)
I don`t give a s*it. I have made a helmet shaped like olly`s out of tinfoil and am now perfectly safe from these things. So there. 8)
A lot of you boys know more about this in an educated way with theories and their like so I will bow to that but I think the morale of the story is this from Hawkings: If you think Aliens are maybe trying to probe us, keep your head down and say nothing. Eventually they will maybe get bored and go away. I would also think if they go to places like Keady, Granard, Maynooth, Lurgan, Plumbridge etc they will realise that there's not much to be had around here and that the inhabitants of this planet are a bit odd. Then they will be surprised we speak different languages even within miles of each other and get the hell out of here.
I have to report the helmet really works. I got the idea from the wife cooking a turkey and covering it with tinfoil. I was hearing things last week in my head that Down would hammer Armagh and since I put the helmet on I havent heard a thing. I`m from Lurgan,would that have anything to do with it? ???