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#2710004 20-May-2021 09:26

zenourn:

I'd say > 99.9% probably that there are other lifeforms out there within the billions of galaxies.

yes, but how many of those lifeforms can conquer space travel.
Ask a dolphin or a dog to weld up a metal box . Or even ask them to lift a hammer or start a fire

We are finding more & more events in galaxies that would wipe out any potential life forms.
Complex life on earth was a fluke . A lucky break. We are far enough away from the more dangerous parts of the galaxy, we at living in a time
when our galaxies black hole is inactive . The sun will wipe us out in a few billions years .

Even planets in the 'goldilocks zones' are death traps for complex life eg Mars & Venus .
Perhaps the reason we havnt been able to find/confirm advanaced alien civilisations , despite decades of searching, its that they arnt there .

And why is advanced alien life so fascinated with anal probing.
Just a bunch of perves

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#2710006 20-May-2021 09:31

Rikkitic:

I was thinking more that a time will come when AI robots simply take over from us and that will be the next phase of human evolution.

I think machines as labour-saving devices are working to assist evolution of (some) humans but heading in the same direction that resulted in some lizards losing their legs, ending up looking more and more like snakes.

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#2710007 20-May-2021 09:35

1101:

yes, but how many of those lifeforms can conquer space travel.

Yet dogs and monkeys got to space before humans.

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#2710014 20-May-2021 09:55

Fred99:

1101:

yes, but how many of those lifeforms can conquer space travel.

Yet dogs and monkeys got to space before humans.

LOL, that is because we lacked the balls to go ourselves, instead sending more 'disposal' lifeforms in our place :)

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#2710016 20-May-2021 10:00

I've been reading a series of science fiction/comedy books by Craig Allanson (Expeditionary Force).

It's pretty silly, but fun to read. One of the main characters is an ancient AI contained within a beer can-sized object, which everyone refers to as Skippy.

Skippy comedically explains how backwards Humans are (referring to them as Monkeys), while the various space-faring races wage an ongoing millennia-long war in two factions.

The point of this aside is that a lot of what is mentioned in these books is somewhat beyond comprehension for a non-scientist like me...being able to simultaneously exist in a several Spacetime things, having technology so advanced it can't be adequately explained to humans because we're not evolved enough etc etc etc.

What I am trying to say is...what would we know? We're a pretty simple and small race on one planet that knows so little and can barely muster up the energy to leave our own orbit.

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#2710017 20-May-2021 10:07

Fred99:

You'd need to write a living will defining how many bitcoin you'd be prepared to pay for the keys to decrypt your memories and consciousness each time you were hacked. Maybe that's what prions causing CJD etc are - bits of malicious code injected by alien hackers in our distant past.

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#2710031 20-May-2021 10:11

networkn:

Fred99:

Yet dogs and monkeys got to space before humans.

LOL, that is because we lacked the balls to go ourselves, instead sending more 'disposal' lifeforms in our place :)

Yep. But how the worm turns. Musk wants to recruit human "volunteers" to go to Mars, yet despite giggling about how lots of them will die, I expect they'll be lining up anyway. Cult power > lack of balls. Jim Jones knew.

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#2710032 20-May-2021 10:11

networkn:

Fred99:

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Yet dogs and monkeys got to space before humans.

LOL, that is because we lacked the balls to go ourselves, instead sending more 'disposal' lifeforms in our place :)

just wait till I tell the PETA folk about this!!!!!!!!!!

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2710033 20-May-2021 10:15

Sidestep:

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Lol - that's great.

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#2710065 20-May-2021 11:24

frankv:

If the entire brain could be scanned, presumably it could be replicated. Immortality via a backup & restore process... backup your brain regularly, or before doing any risky activity. If you don't survive, it can be restored. And potentially parts of one brain merged into another.

Scanning the brain, if ever worked out technically, would very likely be a destructive process like a 3D printer working in reverse with a very very fine head sucking up the atoms and measuring structure at that point in space. So unfortunately a transfer rather than a backup, but once done then could make as many copies as you like!

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#2710068 20-May-2021 11:31

zenourn:

Scanning the brain, if ever worked out technically, would very likely be a destructive process like a 3D printer working in reverse with a very very fine head sucking up the atoms and measuring structure at that point in space. So unfortunately a transfer rather than a backup, but once done then could make as many copies as you like!

Like DRAM. :)

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#2710143 20-May-2021 11:54

zenourn:

frankv:

If the entire brain could be scanned, presumably it could be replicated. Immortality via a backup & restore process... backup your brain regularly, or before doing any risky activity. If you don't survive, it can be restored. And potentially parts of one brain merged into another.

Scanning the brain, if ever worked out technically, would very likely be a destructive process like a 3D printer working in reverse with a very very fine head sucking up the atoms and measuring structure at that point in space. So unfortunately a transfer rather than a backup, but once done then could make as many copies as you like!

If genetic memory is a thing ("instinct" certainly is), then organic life seems to have mastered replication of parts of "consciousness" - whatever that means.

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#2710146 20-May-2021 12:18

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Even if an alien life form bothered to visit us the chances of being close enough to us in the evolutionary scale such that we could communicate meaningfully is zero.

The human gut contains about 100 trillion bacteria, versus the human body has 30 trillion cells. So we are outnumbered by our gut bacteria about 3 to 1. The human genome consists of about 23 000 genes, whereas the microbiome encodes over three million genes.

There is increasing evidence that these gut bacteria influence not only our gut, but our general health, and also moods and personality. e.g. Gut bacteria also produce hundreds of neurochemicals that the brain uses to regulate basic physiological processes as well as mental processes such as learning, memory and mood. For example, gut bacteria manufacture about 95 percent of the body's supply of serotonin, which influences both mood and GI activity.

These bacteria arrived on Earth via comets and meteorites, then worked to create "intelligent" life which they *are* communicating with every day, except we're not recognising it as such.

Consider the proposition that it is your gut bacteria, not you, that is in charge. Your colon is their "spaceship", and these are intelligent beings, composed of disparate cells (kind of a hive mind). They're building Earth-life and training it to build spaceships to carry them to other planets.

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#2710166 20-May-2021 13:07

Not a strictly off-topic musical interlude. Top comment on YT "When I build my hotel on Mars, this will on loop in the lobby".

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#2710179 20-May-2021 13:35

frankv:

... Consider the proposition that it is your gut bacteria, not you, that is in charge. Your colon is their "spaceship", and these are intelligent beings, composed of disparate cells (kind of a hive mind). They're building Earth-life and training it to build spaceships to carry them to other planets.

Well, that explains the anal probing...

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