Do you believe aliens exist?

Do you believe aliens exist?

  • Yes

    Votes: 351 69.1%

  • No

    Votes: 105 20.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 52 10.2%
  • Total voters
    508
wingnut771 said:
Isnt it a human construct anyway?
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Not really — time isn’t just some made-up construct. It’s relative. We didn’t invent it; we just shrank the scales down to something we can actually understand and slapped a name on it. The nutty part is, it’s literally woven into the fabric of space itself.

It is pretty much a stable constant, it may appear to slow down or speed up, but that is relativity for you
 
wizardofid said:
Not really — time isn’t just some made-up construct. It’s relative. We didn’t invent it; we just shrank the scales down to something we can actually understand and slapped a name on it. The nutty part is, it’s literally woven into the fabric of space itself.

It is pretty much a stable constant, it may appear to slow down or speed up, but that is relativity for you
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How does time travel work?
 
wingnut771 said:
This is where the missing link is.
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I don't even know what to do with this statement.

You may as well have asked me "if humans came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?".

What does "missing link" mean to you exactly and why do none of the many MAAAAANY ancestors we have fulfil that for you?

If you're talking about a creature representing some transitional form between some ancestor monkey and humans we have those. We have a LOT of those. Enough to make the idea that we didn't evolve absolutely laughable at this point.
 
porchrat said:
I don't even know what to do with this statement.

You may as well have asked me "if humans came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?".

What does "missing link" mean to you exactly and why do none of the many MAAAAANY ancestors we have fulfil that for you?

If you're talking about a creature representing some transitional form between some ancestor monkey and humans we have those. We have a LOT of those. Enough to make the idea that we didn't evolve absolutely laughable at this point.
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I'm saying homosapien with our big brains just appeared one day in an evolution point of view.
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porchrat said:
Not so slowly in recent times :ROFL:
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There has been a recent rapid warming spike, but I think it may still be under the Holocene mean. Apparently, the average temperature was 2 degrees warmer than it is now during Roman times.
 
wingnut771 said:
Isnt it a human construct anyway?
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Time as measured by humans:

The second is currently defined using cesium atoms, which absorb and emit microwave radiation with a specific frequency. Atomic clocks count 9,192,631,770 of those microwave oscillations, and we call the elapsed time interval a second.

www.nist.gov

Second: Introduction

Time is probably the most measured quantity on Earth
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wingnut771 said:
How does time travel work?
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Time dilation, about as close as you can get to "time travel". The closer you get to the speed of light the slower time appears to move.

Travel a couple of light years, at the speed of light to the nearest super massive star, hang out there for 10 minutes and travel back home. 3 years would have passed for you but, several 1000 years would have passed back on earth.

Time dilation works in two ways general relativity and special relativity. General relativity is based on speed and special relativity is based on gravity. The two can combined and you will get an even more extreme version of time dilation.

Basically just go and sit right at the edge of a black hole event horizon
 
wizardofid said:
Time dilation, about as close as you can get to "time travel". The closer you get to the speed of light the slower time appears to move.

Travel a couple of light years, at the speed of light to the nearest super massive star, hang out there for 10 minutes and travel back home. 3 years would have passed for you but, several 1000 years would have passed back on earth.

Time dilation works in two ways general relativity and special relativity. General relativity is based on speed and special relativity is based on gravity. The two can combined and you will get an even more extreme version of time dilation.

Basically just go and sit right at the edge of a black hole event horizon
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but then how do you get people like Nostradamus?
 
wingnut771 said:
I'm saying homosapien with our big brains just appeared one day in an evolution point of view.
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Hominid brain size increased over time:

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rustypup said:
Repeat after me.

There. Is. No. Missing. Link.

It's the same god-of-the-gaps garbage we've been dealing with for 300 years.
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So we are not test tube babies engineered to be slaves to mine gold for the Anunnaki?
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Who are the Anunnaki?
 
wingnut771 said:
How long has there been ice on the poles?
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Due to precession of Earth axis, Antarctica now experience warmer summers.
This could make glaciers there retreat. (Waiting for the global warming naysayers to latch on to this)
Tectonic shift and drift will also have an effect on where Antarctica is/was relative to the South Pole.
 
gotaway said:
Due to precession of Earth axis, Antarctica now experience warmer summers.
This could make glaciers there retreat. (Waiting for the global warming naysayers to latch on to this)
Tectonic shift and drift will also have an effect on where Antarctica is/was relative to the South Pole.
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That's only 26000 years when its been frozen for 34 million years.
 
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