do you believe in...
16 years ago
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i tried not to go tooo overboard...
by mentioning movies like "matrix" or "island", or etc...
16 years ago
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I believe most of these can be possible except urban myths like the lochness monster, but morally I don't think raising the dead and making homunculus is right. We probably will reach that point but to what extent would you wanna bring someone back to life, just for them to die again and live through suffering of seeing others die as well? Well rant off I'd like to time travel too 😀
16 years ago
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Rather than it being a case of believing it is more what I don't believe. For instances, it is impossible for humans to travel at the speed of light because of E=MC2 unless of course we find a way to transform physical objects into light. And it's a black hole, not a dark hole, which in itself is a deceptive term because it is theoried that a black hole is not a hole but an extreamly dense planetoid body. Living on another planet sounds like too much work so I don't know why we would bother. I do believe in the string theory.
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16 years ago
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Colossal Squids are belived to grow as big as 12-14 meters. They've never been met alive, because they live so deep underwater. I belive it's possible that there lives even bigger creatures.
There has been found possible evidence of life outside of earth (microorganism). I think it's possible that there's even more advanced life. As for UFOs, I don't see any reason why possible intelligent life outside of earth would have any similarities to life on earth. Can't see any "Mars Attacks" scenarios ever happening.
I don't think that cure for aid and cancer is that utopistic idea, but if there was such deseases the world would become heavily overpopulated, and there's no ways of handling something like that today or in near future.
Lochness monster is a myth. You could have just asked if we belive in some myths.
I belive that terraforming is very likely possible in the future. As for it working in other than theory might take a long while, though.
With robots as intelligent as humans, do you perhaps mean artifical intelligence? The way I see it, if it's possible for intelligent life come out of nowhere (humans (intelligent? ^^; ; ) ), it's possible. But I don't think it's very likely in near future.
There might have been some sort of organism in mars, but now it's inpossible, and I don't belive in it.
As for making a perfect clone of a living organism, well... it's been done. I'm not really sure what you mean by that.
Bringing the death back to life, maybe, but only physically. I'm not very familiar with neurology, -philosohy, -whatever etc., but I think it might be possible to bring a person back to life sort time after complete death, or possible with conservating the brain. Whatever I belive it or not, I haven't though about.
Do you know what homunculi is? I don't really understand that question either.
FTL travel isn't really moving faster than light. There's all these theories about superbradyons and tachyons. I like the idea of Alcubierre drive (and bias drive, etc.) and whatever, but I don't know if I belive them or not. But I do belive such things (or similar) are possible.
Haven't though about travelling back in time, but I don't belive that it's possible to chance the past. As for creating a new one, I don't really know. But I do know that I don't want to know anything about your dark holes.
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If we ever solve the mysteries of the human brain,
the computer technology will utilise it.
Thus I think that computers that might even
surpass the human mind are possible.
16 years ago
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I'm willing to believe that there are giant octopi swimming around in large numbers in the ocean. At we can't say that there definitely aren't any, because the truth is that we know very little about what's in our oceans.
It's interesting to me that we spend so much time and money on space exploration when there is still so much about our own planet and ourselves that we know nothing about. Researchers still don't know the reason(s) why human beings sleep or why birds sing. Most people don't even know what kind of wildlife in their own backyards, beyond being able to generalize other beings as a "bird", "squirrel" or "tree". We've shifted our focus from our home planet to space a bit prematurely, I think. If nothing else, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that human beings will ever be able to terraform Mars if they don't understand complex ecosystems and relationships on this planet first. Life on Earth consists of the interaction and interdependence of millions upon millions of lifeforms, many of which we know nothing about, are in the process of destroying, or simply (on the popular level) don't care about. Colonize another planet at this rate? Ha, dream on.
I'm totally up for believing that there is intelligent life somewhere else in the universe. But I doubt that we'll ever find it, and I pretty sure that it won't find us.
16 years ago
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gigantic octopuses (being big as a house)
life outside earth
aliens and UFO
cure for aids
cure for cancer
lochness monsters
teraforming and dwellable by humans on MARS
teraforming and dwellable by humans on the MOON
teraforming and dwellable on a planet that can be migrated outside of the solar system
capable of building robots as intelligent as humans
life-form existing in mars
making a perfect clone of living organism
bringing the dead back to the living by science
making a perfect homunculus
capability of being faster than light
dark hole involving time travel to another time
wasn't a picture of a 12 meters squid (taken with an underwater camera on top of another squid) already in the hands of scientists?
Life in other worlds is not only possible, it would be silly to think otherwise... NOW intelligent life? I hardly think there is intelligent life here on earth
Cure for Aids and Cancer? PLEASE GOD NO!!! those are the only things that slow the growth of human population (sadly is not nearly enough), actually is hard to say this, but Mankind needs either another WW or a plague in order to control our numbers, is better to lose a few millions in silly wars, than to lose billions to famine (worse way of dying!!!)
loincloth monster? yeah I believe in him
Terra forming will be possible, THAT if we manage to keep mankind around long enough.
Building robots as intelligent as humans?, before that we should try to work on our genetics and genetically force mankind to use more than 80% of our brain, just to see what happens 🙂
Life forms in mars? Who cares... unless is some kind of extraterrestrial virus/disease.
Perfect Clone? why? why clone yourself? is better to flat out work in immortality, Clones... pffff silly idea
Dead back to life? hmmm can happen, but we have already seen enough zombie movies to know we shouldn't mess with the dead 😛
homunculi? hmmmm Artificial human bodies? unless it has something to do with immortality is wasted money in a silly research.
Faster than light? why not, Mankind has been around for how long? and we are willing to believe that a silly old man with a weird hairdo and his formula can explain everything that happens in the universe?
Is FOOLISH to think that we already know the universe, just because a formula seems to be right... there is A LOT we don't know or understand so everything is possible.
Black Holes are not planetoids... those are stars with are SOOOO dense that light can't escape their gravity, is a known fact that Gravity can disrupt light... however to think time travel is going to be possible if you jump in a black hole... well good luck, cause if gravity doesn't blend your atoms, you are going to be fried by the HUGE amount of energy that can't escape the Black hole.
16 years ago
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Making perfect clones of course...
How about cloning Michael J. Fox? Making his clone perfect so that he woulnd't get parkinson and is able to make more movies.
16 years ago
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life outside earth has got to be true... even if it is just single-celled organisms... the universe is too big for us to be the only ones...
16 years ago
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Quote from A_Canadian_Spy
life outside earth has got to be true... even if it is just single-celled organisms... the universe is too big for us to be the only ones...
Just had to reiterate that. Same thing I think.
If you've ever thought or said "Nice Guys finish last" and really meant it, then you should probably read this LJ post by DivaLion. It's incredibly insightful whether you're male or female.
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16 years ago
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Quote from Liria
Quote from A_Canadian_Spy
life outside earth has got to be true... even if it is just single-celled organisms... the universe is too big for us to be the only ones...
Just had to reiterate that. Same thing I think.
Does that mean you think aliens exist? Did you read too many mangas? 🤣
There is nothing but dust outside earth.
16 years ago
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O_O
The naivety of the previous post is so mind blowing that I can hardly contain...
must not insult him/her... must avoid BAN
16 years ago
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Yes, I do believe in extraterrestrial life. As I quoted, I think the universe is too vast for me to be conceited enough to believe that this planet is the only one that can sustain life in the entire universe. You are welcome to believe what you want, but not to criticize for something that you cannot prove any more than I can.
Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean you need to be insulting. The whole point of the topic is what do you believe in.
If you've ever thought or said "Nice Guys finish last" and really meant it, then you should probably read this LJ post by DivaLion. It's incredibly insightful whether you're male or female.
From a bumper sticker I like:
"If you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair."
16 years ago
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Quote from Chaoswind
O_O
The naivety of the previous post is so mind blowing that I can hardly contain...
must not insult him/her... must avoid BAN
Oh sorry, what part of "aliens don't exist" is naive? Maybe you already met an alien?
16 years ago
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Ok half of the things that you have stated as possible are either question of time till they are going to be proved or very highly possible to be done or proved very soon.
Giant Octupus - not really. Giant Kalmar - HELL YEAH! Those creatures already have been found like 10m long. Question of time.
Life outside Earth - dude, life outside earth is also bacteria. So they most definetly are there, if not on planets then in our orbit for sure, satelights don't go into orbit sterile. While inteligent life forms other then humans are already a diskutable subject but also very likely to be. There are too many galactics (some theories even state many Universes) for them not to be.
Most of the others except Ufo, Nesie; bringing the dead back to the living by science (that I consider fairy tales) could be possible with higher technolegies.
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