View Poll Results: do you believe in aliens(extra terrestrials)?

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Thread: Do you believe in aliens(extra terrestrials)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sean View Post
    There are some things even SETI will never find out.
    LOL! XD
    That's probably true xP
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    Quote Originally Posted by maxorator View Post
    Time is ... snip ... it's not there.
    and that has what to do with the existance or non-existance of aliens?

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    Quote Originally Posted by happyclown View Post
    Well, do you?
    Id say, yes. We humans have too high an opinion of ourselves; a good E.T. encounter would certainly knock the chip off our shoulders.

    I imagine our lack of confirmation of this lies with the current state of our technology and the vast distances between stars. That's probably a blessing seeing that we can't get along with each other, we'd be hard pressed to maintain good relations with another advanced race.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    (emphasis mine)

    WHAT???

    The ship will never reach such a point (actually, I think it starts from there). This is gibberish and you, maxorator, have been defined by me as a clown and you should careful consider the repercussions of this.
    It will never reach the light itself, but I was talking about the current position of that light.
    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    and that has what to do with the existance or non-existance of aliens?
    I wasn't the one who started with this whole time altering thing...
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    Nothing to do with aliens, or time, but one of the things I enjoy doing each evening is standing amongst my fruit trees in the yard, and looking at the stars.

    The universe is magnificent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteflags
    My high school science teacher demonstrated that the only thing existing outside the universe is ignorance.
    So, Earth could in fact be/exist outside of the Universe?
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    My definition of the Universe includes things outside the Universe

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    Quote Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ View Post
    My definition of the Universe includes things outside the Universe
    I call that a Multiverse.
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    then what do you call the things outside the multiverse?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ
    then what do you call the things outside the multiverse?
    Non-existent?
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    that's very narrow minded of you
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    Quote Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ View Post
    that's very narrow minded of you
    You better watch it, you don't want that to happen again, do you?

    @happyclown: and he smoked what???

    ps. the multiverse was also a product of future alien super-computers, of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    You better watch it, you don't want that to happen again, do you?
    what?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ View Post
    My definition of the Universe includes things outside the Universe
    Ultimately it depends on whether said things can interact with or be interacted with by things in this universe. If they can, then they are really just another part of this universe, albeit that interaction may not be in a 'visible' manner. If they cannot then they would be a classic parallel dimension, but we could never prove the existed, for such proof would itself require some form of interaction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ
    that's very narrow minded of you
    I think that by saying that your definition of "universe" includes those things outside of the universe, you are effectively saying that there is nothing that is outside the universe. This seems just as "narrow minded" as saying that there is nothing that is outside the multiverse.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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