Aliens

[Teuthida]

But Mars. Only takes a couple months. Baby steps before we're exploring the rest of the our solar system, and then the galaxy.

Humans to Mars and robots to Europa. That's all I ask.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_..._cancellations

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

But Mars. Only takes a couple months. Baby steps before we're exploring the rest of the our solar system, and then the galaxy.

Humans to Mars and robots to Europa. That's all I ask.]

Ever since I was little the one thing I've wanted to see was a human standing on Mars. If I see that in my lifetime, I can die seconds after completely content.


I think that is one of the biggest steps any intelligent lifeform can accomplish. It's one thing to exist on your native planet, but to go to another planet and exist there? That is - in every sense of the word unnatural. The moon was an alright thing for us to step on. But that's like swimming in the shallow end of the pool, and boasting about that until you're 50. You've got to swim to the deep end, baby.

Right now, we're just animals. We fuck like monkeys, we talk to dogs, and we make bonds with dolphins and whales. Animals. But if we stand on a planet we were never meant to occupy? That is a sign of intelligence.

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind. But one cannot live in a cradle forever."

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Right now, we're just animals. We fuck like monkeys, we talk to dogs, and we make bonds with dolphins and whales. Animals. But if we stand on a planet we were never meant to occupy? That is a sign of intelligence.

I'd rather fuck like a monkey than stand on Mars.

I call those priorities.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I'd rather fuck like a monkey than stand on Mars.

I call those priorities.

I too, agree I'd rather fuck than stand on Mars. Although I suppose that depends who's up, and when I'd be on Mars.

My point was more; right now, we're not so much better than animals. Sure, we've got ipods and diaphragms - but we're just chillin' on Earth in our own safe, breathable atmosphere.

When we test the measure of imaginary aliens, what is it that makes them advanced, and intelligent? Their technology, sure - But it's the fact that that fake alien is able to go to and land on another planet [via technology] - something we have not done yet.


I just personally feel that once a human lands on another planet - the most unnatural thing the Universe can host (A life form escaping it's own planet under it's own technological power to land on another planet where that form of life was never meant to exist) will finally put us in a separate category than animals.

For fucks'sake, even monkeys, dogs and cats have been to space. But nothing (From Earth) has walked on another planet yet.


Edit: Obviously I'm slightly joking. I don't think we're 100% comparable to all other animals. I just think it would lift the human race above and beyond anything this planet has seen before, to put a human foot on another planet. A planet that maybe had it's own indigenous life millions/billions of years ago. We could be those aliens. Not animals. Extra-Terrestrial.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I'd rather fuck like a monkey than stand on Mars.

That's exactly why we need to go to Mars and start thinking about living on another planet.

I find this quite frightening.


Either expand to other planets or get a good plague going.

[Combine 017]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I'd rather fuck like a monkey than stand on Mars.

Id rather fuck like a monkey on Mars.

Its along the same lines as aliens, but I wonder what the deal is on other dimensions. Like how do you get to them, or if some dimensional aliens has already found a way to get to ours. I guess a wormhole could work but based on Stephen Hawking's theories, wormholes are very unstable things.