are-aliens-hiding-in plain sight

[DJack]

As Pikey does not visit here I thought that this would be safe,,,

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/05/are-aliens-hiding-in-plain-sight

So then chaps, thoughts?

 

[Pegojack]

As Pikey does not visit here I thought that this would be safe,,,

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/05/are-aliens-hiding-in-plain-sight

So then chaps, thoughts?

I read this article yesterday before your post popped up.
Despite the lurid headline designed to draw in the tinfoil hat brigade, its actually all about how we define life and what are the chemical and biological platforms which might be feasible out there in the great beyond. Sorry guys, nothing to do with alien lizards diguised as human beings.

 

[Best_loser]

Didn't hawking say life was just a form of chemical scum

Sounds about right to me

 

[J_B]

Loads of them undoubtedly.

The most obvious one is Jacob Rees Mogg.

 

[DJack]

As Pikey does not visit here I thought that this would be safe,,,

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/05/are-aliens-hiding-in-plain-sight

So then chaps, thoughts?

I read this article yesterday before your post popped up.
Despite the lurid headline designed to draw in the tinfoil hat brigade, its actually all about how we define life and what are the chemical and biological platforms which might be feasible out there in the great beyond. Sorry guys, nothing to do with alien lizards diguised as human beings.

Yeah, I know as I read it too. I was making a joke and asking a real question. Our perceptions are gflawed at the best of times and the thought that life may be vastly more common but unnoticed is fascinating. We have major holes in our understanding of life in our domain, life in others may be even mote mind-boggling.

 

[K23]

As Pikey does not visit here I thought that this would be safe,,,

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/05/are-aliens-hiding-in-plain-sight

So then chaps, thoughts?

What went through my mind as I read it, was the immortal Star Trek line "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it". In most science fiction films, alien lifeforms are still mostly bipeds that look like humans in fancy dress, even in Star Wars, and their animals are quadrupeds that look like earth animals in fancy dress. However, I do recall one Star Trek episode where the lifeforms were actually rocks so maybe ahead of their time in predicting lyfeforms.

 

[airedale]

There’s no aliens here, it would take them too long to get here.

 

[J_B]

There’s no aliens here, it would take them too long to get here.

They might have set off early.

 

[DJack]

There’s no aliens here, it would take them too long to get here.

We got here.

 

[airedale]

There’s no aliens here, it would take them too long to get here.

We got here.

From where?

 

[DJack]

We got here.

From where?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

 

[LeonWasTheDog's]

There’s no aliens here, it would take them too long to get here.

Ahem...

 

[DJack]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54133538

We are being prepped for the news...

 

[Jack_Meoff]

'Astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild of Nasa’s Ames research centre in California sees a cautionary tale in AA Milne’s story from Winnie-the-Pooh'

It's a Rothschild conspiracy I tells ya

:lol:

 

[Pegojack]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54133538

We are being prepped for the news...

Cardiff University FFS.

Come on Swansea, pull your finger out!

Seriously, a fascinating development. Ironic that all the planned space probes are going in the opposite direction.