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The Night Crawlers: Scorch, Dub, RoamView MessagesViewing posts 7601 to 7650 of 20387 messages posted.
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It's not like I keep a deatailed file on everyone here. I should say I'm observant of things I see, not read. Muah Scorch! You always keep me in check ;-)” 4:00:21 PM 3/29/04 “As you do, you bring up the biblical injunction, "And the meek shall inherit the earth!"” 4:01:18 PM 3/29/04 “You don't keep a detailed file of everyone who posts here?” 4:01:45 PM 3/29/04 New Gear Review! “I just reviewed the Prolite 4 over at Epinions.com. Go read it! My other outdoor reviews can be found at the bottom of the review.” 4:02:04 PM 3/29/04 “It's not like I keep a deatailed file on everyone here. well, why not??” 5:58:06 PM 3/29/04 “Damn...I guess I'd better. I'm sitting here in advanced database designing database tables. Maybe instead of desiging a DB that would be beneficial to backpacking I'll design one to hold on my info that I'm gonna start gathering.” 6:01:32 PM 3/29/04 “now THAT is a practical application of something from school! maybe later this summer the CIA would be interested in taking a look at what you've collected. Scorch?” 6:04:23 PM 3/29/04 “We have our ways : )” 6:17:03 PM 3/29/04 “and thats what scares me.” 6:20:12 PM 3/29/04 “Did you get that CIA job?” 6:44:00 PM 3/29/04 “She can neither confirm nor deny that she's now working for the Company.” 6:46:58 PM 3/29/04 “: )” 7:00:49 PM 3/29/04 “i won't know for 2-3 months while they go over all the information provided.” 7:01:09 PM 3/29/04 “but i did have to sign a disclosure.. not allowed to talk about the job to anyone.. even my family... sorry!” 7:01:40 PM 3/29/04 “LOL, dang government!” 7:03:22 PM 3/29/04 “thats kinda cool Scorch.” 7:04:46 PM 3/29/04 “Not dang government... there are certain people in the world (they know who they are LOL) that shouldn't get ahold of certain gov't information. I think so too, Roam.” 7:10:06 PM 3/29/04 “I'd love to work for the CIA just so I could know stuff that other people didn't. I think I'd be smiling all the time because of it. Maybe I'll just become President so I can know everything the CIA knows plus stuff they don't. Then I'd finally find out if extra terrestrials are real.” 7:23:28 PM 3/29/04 “Dude, they so are. Here's my theory.... If you take a HUGE, blank blackboard like the ones in college classrooms and pick up a piece of chalk and put one, single, tiny dot in the middle of it.. well, that represents Earth. The rest of the blackboard and beyond represents the Universe. You can't tell me that we're THE ONLY planet in the Universe that has living beings among it, can you? They gotta be real.” 7:25:04 PM 3/29/04 “Statistically our existence is very improbable...so of course multiply that improbability over the infinity of the universe and you will find and infinite number of civilizations and extra terrestrials.” 7:27:05 PM 3/29/04 “they're out there somewhere... but i don't think the government knows the answer for sure. They're out there, but contact with these civilizations will probably never happen.” 7:33:09 PM 3/29/04 “I wear my tin foil hat all night every night just in case...” 7:36:09 PM 3/29/04 “Never? I don't know about that... we've already landed on the moon and sent machines to Mars! What's going to stop our evolution of machines from travelling to Pluto? Or even the next Universe? Whether we make contact first, or E.T.'s make contact first.. it'll happen. If it hasn't already...” 7:36:28 PM 3/29/04 “this must be where one can talk to scorchyfire,dub or roamaround otherwise what good is this thread as to have anything important it only takes up room and is annoying” 7:36:38 PM 3/29/04 “I still stand by that we will never have contact them, based on the fact that they have not been able to contact us up to this point. The evolution of the human species, the advanced lifeform of earth, took billions of years. The evolution of a similarily advanced civilization should take a comparable amount of time, but some will evolve faster than others, and it is highly unlikely that we are the most advanced life forms in the universe. If this is the case, a civilization that evolved say, 100 years faster than us would be that much more advanced, look at the past 100 years and notice how much technology has evolved, and how much might evolve in the next 100 years. That being said, it is not improbable that there is a civilization 1000 years more advanced than earth, and why haven't we had contact from this extremely advanced civilization? because they either realize that there is no point in contacting us, and have had contact with other life forms within the universe, or life in the universe is so diverse and rare - though infinite that it may be, that civilizations throughout the universe have a high probability of never coming across one another.” 7:43:46 PM 3/29/04 “isnt there some theory that says the incredibly fast pace of technological evolution over the past 100 years will peak at some point and then start slowing down till it stops and ultimately reverses? Isn't that some statistics thing that I learned back in college? Or is that just a half-dead brain cell misfiring in my head?” 7:51:03 PM 3/29/04 “reverse technology... never thought of that, or heard of it... i guess it makes sense in some instances, possibly all eventually. But i suppose you can only advance some things so far before you reach a peak. Other things seem to have an endless advancement, like computers always getting faster, smaller, larger capacity, etc, but i suppose there is a limit to technolgy... though i don't think advancement will ever completely cease” 7:53:55 PM 3/29/04 “Actually we are studying technology and the development rate in one of my classes. It increases at an exponential rate and is supposed to continue that path indefinately. As for an advanced civilization, 100 years isn't much more advanced than we are. We just discovered how to work with atoms 50 years ago. We haven't even touched fission or anti-matter yet and these power sources are what its gonna take to get to an extra-solar planet. Such technologies are still 200 years away from us. Also, we don't know how advanced the other civilizations are. If they've mastered super-luminal speeds, wormholes, and/or folding space their technology could potentially be thousands if not millions of years more advanced than ours. With such advanced technology they could easily hide from us and study us. Besides, think about what it would do if they made contact in public? So many humans are self-centered with their ways and ideas...it would destroy the very social fabric of our society. An intelligent species would not make contact with us until we were capable of finding them.” 8:01:55 PM 3/29/04 “I think thats about right Dub. If anyone that much more advanced took a peek, they'd probably quickly realize that we, as a species, aint ready yet! Or, maybe they'd decide that we're ripe for the picking and make slaves out of us. Orr..... maybe that already have....and we just don't realize it....” 8:06:20 PM 3/29/04 “The celf centered nature of humans is what makes you say that these advanced lifeforms could be among us, when in reality they probably want nothing to do with us, we can't be all that interesting to study, there's gotta be other more interesting civilizations out there besides humans that an advanced civilization would prefer to study. But on another note, maybe relative to them, we are less evolved as bacteria are to us, and to us studying bacteria helps us find cures for diseases and many other things, so an advanced life form might be able to benefit from studying such a primitive life form as the human being.” 8:09:21 PM 3/29/04 “and maybe there is a species watching us talk at this very moment and just laughing at our stupid "theories"” 8:10:45 PM 3/29/04 “that's what I'm saying simer. They're nodding their heads and laughing under their breaths at us. LOL” 8:16:33 PM 3/29/04 “hey maybe you all should come bping with us, i bet we could find some aliens out there...sign up for the mammoth caves trip! :)” 8:17:45 PM 3/29/04 “If advanced technology means increased leisure time do you suppose earth would be a popular vacation spot?” 8:18:56 PM 3/29/04 “advanced technology also means less community. more people wold probably notice if aliens were vacationing. Aliens give anal probes just becaue they can.” 8:22:22 PM 3/29/04 “where do I sign up?” 8:22:53 PM 3/29/04 “but maybe the alies are capable of masking themselves as humans, and work among us in our daily lives in an extensive study of our species.” 8:25:08 PM 3/29/04 “simer, i think you know too much...time to boil you in acid!!!” 8:26:21 PM 3/29/04 “Free is an alien!” 8:27:12 PM 3/29/04 “You just aren't the same as Marvin Gardens.” 8:27:32 PM 3/29/04 Did someone say anal probes? “  ”8:28:09 PM 3/29/04 “we need marvin's imput, he could set us all straight” 8:29:13 PM 3/29/04 “I was actually looking at it, but its a long way off.” 8:30:04 PM 3/29/04 “its time for me to report to...I mean its time for me to call home then go to bed...see you in the morning!!! (I will be watching YOU simer...)” 8:30:22 PM 3/29/04 “that was a little behind, sorry.” 8:31:22 PM 3/29/04 “oooh, i'm scared of the big advanced alien with superior technology, what are you gonna do to me??” 8:32:01 PM 3/29/04 “they told you simer, anal probes.” 8:33:00 PM 3/29/04 “boil you in acid :) MUHAHAHAHA!” 8:33:35 PM 3/29/04 “they don't need anal probes, they can just scan me with some fancy ray machine or something” 8:34:55 PM 3/29/04 Jump to Page << prev
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