Jimbo

You also have a hard time looking at when threads died. Please stop the thread necromancy? Pretty please?

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crawforddavid2006

I couldnt figure out why DaWei had posted in this when i looked at the first page, i thought he had vanished... then i saw when he posted in the thread. who exactly brought this one back from the graves?

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Jimbo

TheDude. He's done it for almost 1/2 dozen threads so far I think...

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Indigno

I agree that he does do it too much, but I don't think that a month is thread necromancy.

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Perhaps I should have a sticky topic for all of the times I "return" to this forum instead of a new one every time.

Jimbo

It was more on the order of about 2 years. See his first post in this thread.

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The Dude

I dont know why people make such a big deal about DATES i really dont know.....

(Who cares when a thread is posted)

I didnt mean to step on anyones toes.....

Ancient Dragon

If the new post is on topic and makes a meaningful contribution, it doesn't matter how old the original thread it. Bumping old threads with meaningful posts is not against PFO rules.

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MiKuS

My belief is that there is other life out there, intelligent life that is.

My own research on this matter states that due to the vast size of the universe, and how much matter fills this void the chances are that there is 'intelligent' life out there. How intelligent? To have an indication of this we must be able to locate ourselves in our universe, harder than it sounds since we don't even know how big it is.

we could get a rough idea on the head start that other life has had on us from the size of the universe, and where we are. Iff the big bang theory is correct then all matter at the beginning of time exploded outwards, life on the outer reaches of the universe could possibly be far superior to us given they are further from the centre than us.

The above could only be used to loosely represent the smartness on a Distance (from big bang epicentre) vs Smartness (intelligence) table due to lots of other unknown issues life can face (mass extinction). Every few ten million years here on earth we go through a reported mass extinction but the wikipedia article suggests that mass extinction is on the decline:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_ex...sing_frequency

It's not hard to imagine an intelligent life form getting on the verge of mastering intergalactic travel but being largely wiped out and all civilization having to start from single cell organisms or from some other organisms.

It is entirely possible that aliens could look just like us, and it is also possible that they could look like what we expect, if evolution on earth is anything to go by another intelligent species could look very strange to us (half life anyone?)

the universe is a fascinating place, there is so much to be discovered. I just hope in the event that other life manages to find us they are nothing like humans, as if we ran into another life, lesser than us we would be like to either enslave the population and pillage their planet or just take things of our "political interest" from them (there might be some undiscovered elements even!)

I could go much deeper but i'll stop now.

The Dude

Yes its quite stupid and ignorant to think no one else is out there with how big space is and all.....