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Tartonga
I would disagree with this statement. Just because bacteria are single cellular doesn't necessarily mean they have evolved any less over the years.
I think I know what you are trying to say. Bacterias and other organisms from the Monera kingdom have a huge genetic mutation potential and are actually the species that evolved most in the course of years. However their single cell is a prokaryotic cell which is, biologically speaking, less evolved than an eukaryotic cell. So, what you said is completely right, but it's not what I meant.
I know I may sound like a d*ck, but I seriously try not to.
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donnymurph
I'd like to think that if aliens came to Earth it would be a District 9 type of scenario. That movie is awesome.
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Morec0
I'd like to think that if aliens came to Earth it would be a District 9 type of scenario. That movie is awesome.
Yes, yes it was, but what happened to them might completely depend on a few factors: their intentions (like every other evil, world-conquring alien movie out there) and what supplies they have with them. In District 9 we saw that the aliens were living in very, very poor conditions with very little food when they were first encountered and they had no intentions (far as I could deduce) of taking over the world (see Battle:LA).
But yeah, humans in general would likely be terrified of them and either pen them up or just start shooting them, heck, might even be vice-versa if the Aliens didn't know we were here.
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Azazel
Eh remembe wen 'ey took ma cows!
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Orranis
Eh remembe wen 'ey took ma cows!
Dey t'k 'r c'ws!
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donnymurph
I'd like to think that if aliens came to Earth it would be a District 9 type of scenario. That movie is awesome.
I want to watch it again =D
Just hope your not Wikas (Vikas?).
Spelt Wikus. Pronounced Vikkus.
But yeah, humans in general would likely be terrified of them and either pen them up or just start shooting them, heck, might even be vice-versa if the Aliens didn't know we were here.
Depends how many there were really. If there was a group of, say, 5 aliens, I'm pretty sure that no-one would be scared. They aren't necessarily going to bring 50% of their population here on a mothership.
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Skreeran
I would disagree with this statement. Just because bacteria are single cellular doesn't necessarily mean they have evolved any less over the years.
I think I know what you are trying to say. Bacterias and other organisms from the Monera kingdom have a huge genetic mutation potential and are actually the species that evolved most in the course of years. However their single cell is a prokaryotic cell which is, biologically speaking, less evolved than an eukaryotic cell. So, what you said is completely right, but it's not what I meant.
I know I may sound like a d*ck, but I seriously try not to.Again, though, it all depends on how you defined "less evolved."
Having multiple cells is one survival strategy, that eukaryotes employ.
Bacteria have their own survival strategy, and their prevalence in the natural world would suggest that it's just as good, if not better, than the eukaryotic strategy. Complexity is not the goal of evolution, survival is.
Honestly I think its a crap shoot I think about the size of the universe. And figure it is chances are there is somewhere that has life. And eventually the they would evolve into a intelligent being. As for the distance being to far. For practical travel I think about how little we actually know about the universe. And as far as not being able to travel faster than light just a theory a scientist actually found a way to stop light like pausing it in mid air. So eventually that will be relative. Also look at our technology advancement how long ago was a mars mission was impossibly far now we have it cut down to a year. Or at the technology advancement out of couple thousand years on this planet how much of our technology was discovered in last 200 years. last 50 evenLightspeed is provably the fastest possible speed. Relativity falls apart if lightspeed is not the fastest speed, and relativity has been proven experimentally.
As far as slowing down light, you're misunderstanding something. Light does not always travel the same speed. Light moves much faster in a vacuum than it does in, say, water (light's speed in a vacuum is what we traditionally think of "the speed of light."). However, no matter what medium light travels through, it will always travel faster than anything else through that medium.
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Monday
I'm not even paying attention, but from what I've seen, this seems like Jean-Baptist LaMark's theory.
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Skreeran
I'm not even paying attention, but from what I've seen, this seems like Jean-Baptist LaMark's theory.What?
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Monday
I'm not even paying attention, but from what I've seen, this seems like Jean-Baptist LaMark's theory.What?
Somebody was saying something about something being less evolved than humans. There is no "tendency towards perfection."
Yes, that was horrifyingly vague. Bite me.
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Skreeran
I'm not even paying attention, but from what I've seen, this seems like Jean-Baptist LaMark's theory.What?
Somebody was saying something about something being less evolved than humans. There is no "tendency towards perfection."
Yes, that was horrifyingly vague. Bite me.Heh, well I myself got a lot of my evolutionary theory from Dawkins' books, in particular,
The Selfish Gene
.
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Monday
I'm not even paying attention, but from what I've seen, this seems like Jean-Baptist LaMark's theory.What?
Somebody was saying something about something being less evolved than humans. There is no "tendency towards perfection."
Yes, that was horrifyingly vague. Bite me.Heh, well I myself got a lot of my evolutionary theory from Dawkins' books, in particular,
The Selfish Gene
.
/shrug.
Just remembering LaMark's (or however you spell his bloody name) theory.
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207044
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Skreeran
I don't think you're giving enough credit to contemporary theoretical physics. I agree that we don't know everything, and there are still a lot of questions to be answered, but I really don't think we're ever gonna find any sort of magical technology that allows us to break the laws of physics.
You and I may understand only a "little of space mechanics," but experts like Hawking, Kaku, Krauss, and so on really do know their stuff pretty well, and I think it may be a little over-optimistic to expect that theoretical technological advances will be able to break the laws of physics.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love if we could find some way to harness the astronomical amounts of energy needed to hold open some kind of large wormhole or something that would make space travel easier, but I just don't see it happening, at least not for tens of thousands of years.
And while some might counter that aliens could be tens of thousands of years ahead of us, technologically, I would counter that if it takes something along the lines of any entire star's worth of power to hold open a wormhole between spaces, it'd be kinda silly for them to pay those expenses just to probe conspiracy theorists here on Earth. If they really wanted to contact us, they'd just point a tight-beam radio broadcast at us and wait for us to respond.
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