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Alien Life What’s the point in searching for extra terrestrial life? I don’t mean “Why would you want to meet other beings” I just mean, “what’s the point of actually *going looking* for them”. We’re so unlikely to find anything it absolutely boggles my mind. No-one even knows what they’re looking for, and this is the bit that gets me. We base nearly all our searches on the premise that whatever it is that might be out there has developed ideas closely enough in line with ours that we’d be able to detect them. SETI are looking for patterns in radio waves. Nasa are busy looking for water on planets. WATER. The assumption that we need water to live therefore some other life form must need water to live is something I’ve never understood. How do we know that there’s not something out there living on Jupiter RIGHT NOW? There could be things having the time of their lives in amongst all that hydrogen and helium, beings could be spending their weekends doing backstroke through the magnetosphere for all we know. How *do* we know? We can’t see them. We can’t detect them. HUMANS cannot detect them. Our eyes can’t see them so they are not there. So if we can’t detect them on Jupiter, how would we detect them on earth? There might be a complete existence going on in the same space as you’re sat in RIGHT NOW only because it’s nothing to do with you, because the particles that these two universes are made up of just don’t interact… we don’t know! Amazing. You lose your wallet in the street. Five minutes later you go “oh fuckit!!” and backtrack. You know every single step you’ve taken and you’re desperately searching but.. twenty two seconds after you dropped it, someone, someone who wasn’t even looking, who didn’t have a clue there was even a wallet lost stumbled into it. Now they’ve got it, and you haven’t Stop looking. It’ll happen.
Comments! WICKED STEPFARTER Thu 01 Jan 2010 With some of the people I have come across Its Proof that they are already here ANONYMOUS COWHERD Sat 02 Feb 2010 Ahhh Fletcher, I knew that eventually the lonely nights on the canal inhaling the second hand smoke emanating from the boat owned by the hippie moored alongside you would lead you to speculate about alien existence. Leave a Reply |
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Hello! Fletch.cx has been going since 1999 in one form or another, yep incredible, when will it end? For more of my bullshit see last.fm, lluckj.com, facebook and if you really want a constant avalanche of musings, observations and lies then follow me on twitter..
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