Glass found on Mars

Wouldn't it be amazing if we discover intelligent life in our lifetime? That would change a lot of things.
 
Yay, if there is Sauvignon Blanc out there, I'm going!
 
Ridolfc said:
Wouldn't it be amazing if we discover intelligent life in our lifetime? That would change a lot of things.
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"Change a lot of things" is apparently something of an understatement if you accept R. Hoaglands "Brookings Report" as real, and the interpretation thereof as potentially accurate:

From one of the links above:

As readers should remember, this entire turgid tale of official "space agency deception" over what it's really been finding (then hiding!) in the solar system for these past 50 years - traces back, in part, to ONE specific document, revealed by our political investigations decades ago ... a "high-level" government report commissioned at the end of the Eisenhower Administration (in the late 1950’s) by a newly-founded "NASA."

Researched and delivered to NASA in 1960 by the famed “Brookings Institution” (a well-known, private Washington “policy think-tank”), the Report that was eventually (under the Kennedy Administration) delivered to the Eighty-Seventh Congress in 1961 and then made public, specifically warned that--

“Premature disclosure of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life ... or even, the proven existence of their ruins elsewhere in the solar system ..." – could, literally-- Destroy human civilization!
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Newspaper article scan from 1960 (too large for image tags, I think):

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According to Hoagland, if it is officially revealed to us that "It was Aliens", then either A) the Powers That Be have decided we've all matured enough to deal with it, or it's actually, B) they hope to destroy civilization using that news as a catalyst.
 
"If" , "in the event of"
This is what think tanks do. Write reports on what might happen if something happens or doesn't happen.
I do believe that we are probably not alone in the universe. In fact there may be several other "civilisations" out there. However, I don't really believe on government conspiracies or spaceships in the desert. If another race has found us, then they must be twenty times as advanced as we are and we are probably so primitive and polluted that they are not really interested in taking us over...yet
 
bokdrol said:
"If" , "in the event of"
This is what think tanks do. Write reports on what might happen if something happens or doesn't happen.
I do believe that we are probably not alone in the universe. In fact there may be several other "civilisations" out there. However, I don't really believe on government conspiracies or spaceships in the desert. If another race has found us, then they must be twenty times as advanced as we are and we are probably so primitive and polluted that they are not really interested in taking us over...yet
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Pretty much agree, however, Hoagland's thesis is that ultimately NASA policy down the ages has been heavily influenced by this Brookings Report. ie they are fearful that any discoveries they make might trigger the possible events described by the report, if released to the public. Hence massive cover-ups (because Hoagland, and others are convinced there is evidence of outside influence in our Solar System).

Hence questions like this: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-over-Mars?p=15387564&viewfull=1#post15387564
 
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Whether or not there is intelligent life elsewhere is probably moot. The sheer scale of the universe would suggest that there is a strong possibility of other civilizations. But the possibility that Arthur C Clarke missed and other theorists seldom mention is that maybe the known laws of physics are quite absolute and there is no possible technology that can transcend the speed of light or allow civilizations to travel across galaxies. No wormholes or loopholes that can violate the boundaries of space time. Therefore, no practical way to ever explore enough of the universe or travel far enough that even in infinite time no two civilians will ever encounter each other. In that respect, it is irrelevant whether we are alone or not. It is a disappointing alternative.
 
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