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Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Toadvine posted:

Maybe they're criminals tasked with colonizing a new planet? I'd watch that on Hulu

Still not worth buying Hulu Prime though.

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Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

galaxies are far as balls, jesus lol

I think he's talking about systems inside the milky way :ssh:

naem
May 29, 2011

Toadvine posted:

If we're sending people to the next star system they're staying there.

Yeah a generation ship meant to crash and stay somewhere habitable is the only realistic scenario

Well and the one where a friendly peaceful advanced civilization give us their technology and we use it to go bonkers and conquer the Galaxy as space nazis

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

it's definitely possible that aliens have visited earth some time in its history, i mean the universe has been around for billions of years. think about it, you don't even need FTL travel to get across the galaxy, just a million years. even if you couldn't sustain whatever form your life happens to take for the journey, there's always bracewell probes

Our failure to see any kind of SETI signals so far could also be explained by the existance of Von Neumann Berserkers so there's that

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Toadvine posted:

I think he's talking about systems inside the milky way :ssh:

Could be wrong or could just be the internet. The major dwarf galaxy wasn't discovered intill 2004.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_galaxy_info.html

The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is 662,000,000,000,000,000 km from the sun.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is 1,690,000,000,000,000,000 km away, was once considered the nearest galaxy outside of the Milky Way.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is 1,980,000,000,000,000,000 km (210,000 light years) away.

Start walking!

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
I just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness and it's premise is a bunch of humanoid planets organizing themselves into a galactic alliance and visiting further planets to extend an invite. It was a good read, if a little dry.

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Toadvine posted:

I just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness and it's premise is a bunch of humanoid planets organizing themselves into a galactic alliance and visiting further planets to extend an invite. It was a good read, if a little dry.

It would make sense that space aliens looking for resources would be less likely of targeting planets where aliens(humans, as to aliens would be alien to them) were living. Robot Chicken did a skit where the predator was facing predator protesters about him attacking Arnold.

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy

Tenzarin posted:

People in Iceland believe in Elves that live in rocks, they even build highways around the rocks so the Elves do not attack them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulduf%C3%B3lk

Iceland also has a phone app to try and limit the amount of inbreeding. I'm not saying they're related, just askin' questions.

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Mercrom posted:

arguments against:
- its literally impossible

Traversable wormholes and Alcubierre drives are theoretically possible, so...

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Ivor Biggun posted:

Iceland also has a phone app to try and limit the amount of inbreeding. I'm not saying they're related, just askin' questions.

drat those elves are tricky.

Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
do you guys remember the episode of TNG where the alien probe gave Barclay hyper-intelligence and he fused his consciousness with the ship in pursuit of an all-consuming drive to rendezvous with the aliens who made the probe

RVWinkle
Aug 24, 2004

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.
Nap Ghost

Rape Stink posted:

Kinda weird that with cameras being loving everywhere now and most people in the first world having one in their pocket at all times that we have seen a major drop in UFO sightings... wait, did I say weird? I meant perfectly reasonable, because we are not being visited by aliens you chucklefucks.

"I saw a UFO!"
"why didn't you take a video of it with your phone?"
"because I'm lying to get attention from dangerously gullible people on the internet"

Listen here, sonny. Camera technology has existed for over a hundred years. The government suppressed their mass distribution until after the aliens developed more sophisticated techniques to conceal their identities. Think about it, everyone has had access to a phone for 50 years but it's only been in the past decade that camera phones became ubiquitous.

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009

WEH posted:

Traversable wormholes and Alcubierre drives are theoretically possible, so...
might as well be humans rather than aliens then because those things are time machines

Mercrom fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Mar 30, 2016

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Read Jim Moseley's Sauce Smear if you get a chance (there are archives in PDF somewhere online, after he died and the website went defunct). He'd been apart of the UFO everything from the beginning and makes fun of almost every major name in ufology and how bullshit a lot of the guys are. He's not a skeptic in the normal sense, but had always been genuinely interested in UFOs and thought a lot of the people that wrote books and/or gained fame were idiots, nuts, or in it for the money (Stanton Friedman being a main target for him). He always questioned a lot of the big attractions in ufology, such as the Majestic 12 papers, Area 51, and other things. He's sarcastic as hell and Saucer Smear is like Mad Magazine for UFO topics.

A ILL BREAKFAST
Jun 9, 2007

*unsheathes katana*
alright i mean that's cool and all haier, but tell me about your latest chinese poon crushing adventure pls

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Haier posted:

Read Jim Moseley's Sauce Smear if you get a chance (there are archives in PDF somewhere online, after he died and the website went defunct). He'd been apart of the UFO everything from the beginning and makes fun of almost every major name in ufology and how bullshit a lot of the guys are. He's not a skeptic in the normal sense, but had always been genuinely interested in UFOs and thought a lot of the people that wrote books and/or gained fame were idiots, nuts, or in it for the money (Stanton Friedman being a main target for him). He always questioned a lot of the big attractions in ufology, such as the Majestic 12 papers, Area 51, and other things. He's sarcastic as hell and Saucer Smear is like Mad Magazine for UFO topics.

Looks like they got him, just like Mel Gibson in that conspiracy movie.

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Mercrom posted:

might as well be humans rather than aliens then because those things are time machines

1) Why would humans come back and 2) That far in the future they'd probably be so far removed from us they might as well be aliens.

Haier posted:

He always questioned a lot of the big attractions in ufology, such as the Majestic 12 papers, Area 51, and other things. He's sarcastic as hell and Saucer Smear is like Mad Magazine for UFO topics.

Thanks for this!

Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

I really miss Art Bell

verdigris murder
Jul 10, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
"A new book by a French science journalist claims that NASA astronauts have practiced sex in outer space, to find out which love-making positions are possible in zero gravity! He claims that of the ten positions tested, six required "mechanical help" from an elastic belt and an inflatable tunnel, to keep the partners pressed together while in the Act. The other four positions were possible through the use of "muscle power" only. The experiment was recorded on video tape with the couple's consent."

'Muscle power only' can means one thing: doggystyle space loving.

verdigris murder fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 30, 2016

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

osietra posted:

"A new book by a French science journalist claims that NASA astronauts have practiced sex in outer space, to find out which love-making positions are possible in zero gravity! He claims that of the ten positions tested, six required "mechanical help" from an elastic belt and an inflatable tunnel, to keep the partners pressed together while in the Act. The other four positions were possible through the use of "muscle power" only. The experiment was recorded on video tape with the couple's consent."

'Muscle power only' can means one thing: doggystyle space loving.

Ancient aliens did an episode on this, or it was done on UFO hunters.

I too am interested on what living in space would do to the human body from birth to death.

verdigris murder
Jul 10, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Tenzarin posted:

Ancient aliens did an episode on this, or it was done on UFO hunters.

I too am interested on what living in space would do to the human body from birth to death.
Many alien cultures use a singular figurehead as a touch base face place. Sadly the most assertive one, along with using social media in a most frightening manner, is passively complicit with:

Hollywood and Islam.

naem
May 29, 2011

osietra posted:


'Muscle power only' can means one thing: doggystyle space loving.

ENGAGE

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
I don't care if the Bern is extinguished, I just donated five bucks to get a "Birdie" Sanders sticker











why the gently caress are you guys talking about aliens

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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King Vidiot posted:

why the gently caress are you guys talking about aliens

bernouts think that an offhand joke clinton made about aliens is going to sink her campaign and usher in a thousand years of glorious socialism

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy

Fojar38 posted:

bernouts think that an offhand joke clinton made about aliens is going to sink her campaign and usher in a thousand years of glorious socialism

I rate this thread tinfoil:

Mr. Unlucky
Nov 1, 2006

by R. Guyovich
i hope aliens show up and endorse bernie just so that smug bitch has to run a third time in another 8 years lol

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Fojar38 posted:

bernouts think that an offhand joke clinton made about aliens is going to sink her campaign and usher in a thousand years of glorious socialism

Personally, I think enough morons living in bunkers will be swayed by this to get her into the white house

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
David Icke said the election process is all a sham to give us hope. The winners have been decided ages ago by the shadow government (which are reptilian controlled). LOL @ u guys for voting.

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Was he also the dude who said Obama took a stargate to Mars as a teen? Either way, Icke has the dubious honor of being so insane that Mysterious Universe makes fun of him

Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps

Toadvine posted:

I just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness and it's premise is a bunch of humanoid planets organizing themselves into a galactic alliance and visiting further planets to extend an invite. It was a good read, if a little dry.

I recently read a book that was something similar except there were 2 big alliances duking it out. One side finds humans and goes 'hey these dudes could help us out' and it turns out the humans are super war hungry and brutal compared to the other aliens and we just wreck everything then get our hands on FTL tech and proceed to wipe the floor with the others.

It was pretty cool.

Jose Mengelez
Sep 11, 2001

by Azathoth

WEH posted:

Was he also the dude who said Obama took a stargate to Mars as a teen? Either way, Icke has the dubious honor of being so insane that Mysterious Universe makes fun of him

barsoom choom gang '82 :420:

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Burning Beard
Nov 21, 2008

Choking on bits of fallen bread crumbs
Oh, this burning beard, I have come undone
It's just as I've feared. I have, I have come undone
Bugger dumb the last of academe

Haier posted:

Read Jim Moseley's Sauce Smear if you get a chance (there are archives in PDF somewhere online, after he died and the website went defunct). He'd been apart of the UFO everything from the beginning and makes fun of almost every major name in ufology and how bullshit a lot of the guys are. He's not a skeptic in the normal sense, but had always been genuinely interested in UFOs and thought a lot of the people that wrote books and/or gained fame were idiots, nuts, or in it for the money (Stanton Friedman being a main target for him). He always questioned a lot of the big attractions in ufology, such as the Majestic 12 papers, Area 51, and other things. He's sarcastic as hell and Saucer Smear is like Mad Magazine for UFO topics.

Seconded. I actually wrote him and got a reply a few years back: hilarious guy. His book is on Amazon and just as funny.

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