Extraterrestrial life questions and chat thread

[SGOS]

#1: If alien life is advanced enough can they make a universe where no life in it ever dies?
#2: If aliens are real could they have written The Holy Bible?
#3: If alien life is advanced enough can they revive the dead?
#4: If alien life is real can they safely make someone live much longer?

I don't know.  Maybe or maybe not.  What's the point?  Is it that if aliens can do these things, then god is real?  I'd like to see the logical steps one would take from one to the other.

[marom1963]

I do not doubt that aliens exist. However, I will not accept that they have been to Earth until one of them knocks on my door, asking to borrow a cup of sugar.
As for your questions - ??? How the hell am I supposed to know?
A thought - before Galileo, it was angels that people swore they saw. Now, it's little gray or green men. No wings, though. And the angels didn't have flying saucers.

[Cocoa Beware]

#1: If alien life is advanced enough can they make a universe where no life in it ever dies?

I suppose extending your life via advanced technological means is common theme in science fiction... but I have no way to determine anything like that.

If aliens are real could they have written The Holy Bible?

If they did, then they must have a perverse and sadistic sense of humour!!!

If alien life is advanced enough can they revive the dead?

You believe Jesus was an alien don't you.

If alien life is real can they safely make someone live much longer?

How am I supposed to know that?! These are some funny questions.

[Baruch]

Good point, well made. I often ask "what do we have that would interest a space-faring race?" The most common answer is "Because we're here!" That begs the question "Is 'being here' special?"

Given the rate of discovery of new planets ... even habitable planets won't be rare in a galaxy sized constellation.

[stromboli]

With regard to listening for radio signals: Can you read smoke signals? That "technology" died out less than 200 years ago. What will we be using for signaling in 200 years?

[marom1963]

Wouldn't it be great if we picked up their "Morning Zoo" making fun of us? Laughing at how stupid we are! "Oooo - look at that one! They call him the Pope. He's about to fart, and more than 1 billion of them will tell him how good it smells."

[stromboli]

Wouldn't it be great if we picked up their "Morning Zoo" making fun of us? Laughing at how stupid we are! "Oooo - look at that one! They call him the Pope. He's about to fart, and more than 1 billion of them will tell him how good it smells."

Depending on the sensitivity of receiving gear, somebody out there right now is watching Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver. Might get some wrong impressions from that.

[marom1963]

Depending on the sensitivity of receiving gear, somebody out there right now is watching Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver. Might get some wrong impressions from that.

It would be great if F Troop were their impression of the Army.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There was a scifi short about aliens finding a reel of film and learning about Earth from that. They were amazed how tough we were. They didn't really understand the Looney Tunes logo at the end, either.

[stromboli]

There was a scifi short about aliens finding a reel of film and learning about Earth from that. They were amazed how tough we were. They didn't really understand the Looney Tunes logo at the end, either.

Does this mean a Wascally Wabbit has forestalled invasion?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Does this mean a Wascally Wabbit has forestalled invasion?

Sadly, they found the can of film after the ice receded from that Snowball Earth. Basically, at that point "invasion" would have been overkill.

[doorknob]

the real question is how many aliens does it take to change a light bulb?

[Mike Cl]

the real question is how many aliens does it take to change a light bulb?

Depends--are they blond????  Actually, they don't need them any more.

[doorknob]

I dont know according to folk lore aliens have some pretty bright light bulbs. Ones so bright the can counter act gravity. That's one impressive light bulb. that's not to say that it has to be a bulb the light source could be mushrooms for all I care.

[Baruch]

Depends--are they blond????  Actually, they don't need them any more.

After many Chernobyl/Fukushima thanks to the very careful nuclear industry, they all glow in the dark ;-)