I mean you get in a plane, jump out of the plane, and it takes you to a spot on the ground.
Wouldn't it be easier to just walk or drive to that spot? Uber is readily available.
Sorry about that Steve, I missed your comment on this thread, I get carried away and started posting and don't see everything on here. The only explanation I can offer is the rush some people get, it's like a high to them. There's a line in the movie Point Break, where Patrick Swayze's character Bodie says about skydiving, "100% pure adrenaline, other guys snort for it, jab a vein for it, and all you got to do is jump." That's the best explanation I've heard, personally, I'm fine right here on the ground!
While in college back in 1993, I skydived (skydove?). It was a tandem jump - didn’t have the $s to spring for the extra training required to solo. Damn glad I tandem jumped - instead of arching, I kinda tucked… saw the underside of the plane twice while tumbling, with my tandem coach yelling “arch, dammit, arch” in my ear Eventually arched or who knows what would’ve happened.
Jumped from 13,500 ft, free fall of 8k ft in about a minute. Glad I did it once, not sure I’d do it again!
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I mean you get in a plane, jump out of the plane, and it takes you to a spot on the ground.
Wouldn't it be easier to just walk or drive to that spot? Uber is readily available.
Sorry about that Steve, I missed your comment on this thread, I get carried away and started posting and don't see everything on here. The only explanation I can offer is the rush some people get, it's like a high to them. There's a line in the movie Point Break, where Patrick Swayze's character Bodie says about skydiving, "100% pure adrenaline, other guys snort for it, jab a vein for it, and all you got to do is jump." That's the best explanation I've heard, personally, I'm fine right here on the ground!
While in college back in 1993, I skydived (skydove?). It was a tandem jump - didn’t have the $s to spring for the extra training required to solo. Damn glad I tandem jumped - instead of arching, I kinda tucked… saw the underside of the plane twice while tumbling, with my tandem coach yelling “arch, dammit, arch” in my ear Eventually arched or who knows what would’ve happened.
Jumped from 13,500 ft, free fall of 8k ft in about a minute. Glad I did it once, not sure I’d do it again!
You've got some guts my friend, my goodness. Last night my wife asked me would I seriously consider doing it if someone offered me a million dollars, and I thought about it and I just couldn't go through with it, I just couldn't put my trust in a parachute. If that parachute doesn't open properly, it isn't going to end well.
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
I mean you get in a plane, jump out of the plane, and it takes you to a spot on the ground.
Wouldn't it be easier to just walk or drive to that spot? Uber is readily available.
Sorry about that Steve, I missed your comment on this thread, I get carried away and started posting and don't see everything on here. The only explanation I can offer is the rush some people get, it's like a high to them. There's a line in the movie Point Break, where Patrick Swayze's character Bodie says about skydiving, "100% pure adrenaline, other guys snort for it, jab a vein for it, and all you got to do is jump." That's the best explanation I've heard, personally, I'm fine right here on the ground!
While in college back in 1993, I skydived (skydove?). It was a tandem jump - didn’t have the $s to spring for the extra training required to solo. Damn glad I tandem jumped - instead of arching, I kinda tucked… saw the underside of the plane twice while tumbling, with my tandem coach yelling “arch, dammit, arch” in my ear Eventually arched or who knows what would’ve happened.
Jumped from 13,500 ft, free fall of 8k ft in about a minute. Glad I did it once, not sure I’d do it again!
You've got some guts my friend, my goodness. Last night my wife asked me would I seriously consider doing it if someone offered me a million dollars, and I thought about it and I just couldn't go through with it, I just couldn't put my trust in a parachute. If that parachute doesn't open properly, it isn't going to end well.
I’d definitely do it again for enough money. I think skydiving violates my life insurance, so if someone wants to pay me $1 more than my life insurance payout, I’m 1,000% in.
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
The problem is that every single one of his "major" theories has been thoroughly debunked.
Perhaps the most famous one was how could the Egyptians possibly build the pyramids without alien help? Simple, it's known as scaffolding, which is exactly how they did it.
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
The problem is that every single one of his "major" theories has been thoroughly debunked.
Perhaps the most famous one was how could the Egyptians possibly build the pyramids without alien help? Simple, it's known as scaffolding, which is exactly how they did it.
The aliens gave the Egyptians knowledge to build the pyramids Steve, the Egyptians probably offered the aliens a couple hours with some lovely ladies and a few bottles of wine in exchange for the blueprints for the pyramids. 🤔
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
The problem is that every single one of his "major" theories has been thoroughly debunked.
Perhaps the most famous one was how could the Egyptians possibly build the pyramids without alien help? Simple, it's known as scaffolding, which is exactly how they did it.
The aliens gave the Egyptians knowledge to build the pyramids Steve, the Egyptians probably offered the aliens a couple hours with some lovely ladies and a few bottles of wine in exchange for the blueprints for the pyramids. 🤔
@stevek said:
Considering your propensity for "tall tales" over these past months, I don't believe your story. However let's say I do believe it.
First of all, speaking of bad ideas, it's a really bad idea to go camping alone such as that, for a multitude of reasons. And if as implied, you had done this before, then you should know that likely it was simply a black bear or fox, both hunt at night, simply sniffing around for food which isn't rare at all in an area such as that.
These animals have extraordinary senses of smell. Because we are not prey for them, and virtually all of these animals have encountered humans before, you should also have known that there was in reality no danger to you at all. These animals were only hoping to grab a tasty morsel, left by humans at a campsite such as chicken bones, etc. A knowledgeable camper would have stayed in the tent, turned over, and gotten a good nights sleep.
As for the ghost story, it's beyond silly, and I'm not even going to comment on any Bigfoot tales, etc. All of which are either pranks, or figments of someone's imagination. If anybody believes that "famous" video of a guy parading around in a gorilla costume was Bigfoot, then my advice would be to stay away from swamp land salesmen. LOL
Bigfoot exists, as does the elusive Himalayan Yeti and Loch Ness monster, at least until proven otherwise!
You do realize that the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was not a documentary? 😉
All kidding aside, it's interesting that before the advent of those various science fiction movies of the 1950's, the world wide reporting of space aliens was virtually nil. Although Orson Welles scared the chit out of many on his famous Halloween radio broadcast in 1938, there weren't any significant number of folks claiming they actually saw anything.
However when folks starting attending those movies mentioned, suddenly the world wide reporting of seeing flying saucers and aliens increased exponentially. Otherwise known as cause and effect. LOL
Honestly, truthfully, I've done quite a bit of research on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Loch Ness monster and I don't believe that any of these creatures actually exist. I would need to see some real hard scientific proof before I would believe it. I do believe we are not alone, the universe is simply too big, with too many exoplanets for there not be life out there somewhere. Whether or not that life is similar to us, or hostile, I don't know.
In a nutshell, yes, the universe is teaming with life. Not even debatable really for reasons you stated.
What can be debatable, is has intelligent life or at least robot probes of sorts, ever visited planet earth? I'd say the chances are virtually nil. The problem is simply physics. The distances are just way too far for "Star Trek" like space travel to become a reality.
Now could something be invented or discovered that would make space travel possible, to be able to visit neighboring solar systems and such? That could possibly happen, however it certainly won't be in our lifetime. Take the moon for example. The US was able to put a man on the moon way back in 1969. But we haven't even progressed yet to be able to send a man to Mars, despite all our innovations with computers and everything else since then.
I'll wrap it up with this, and it's not good. We've had satellite dish type receptors for decades, trying to pick-up signals from intelligent life out there. No success whatsoever. Yes, the universe is teaming with life. However there's a theory and sorry to say nobody can definitively dispute it, that once a life form reaches a certain level of high intelligence, it finds some way to destroy itself. Really not that hard to envision this theory at all, if right here on earth our species is stupid enough to make that happen thru nuclear war.
Mind bending stuff, you should check out the simulation theory sometimes, it's insane.
>
Nah, didn't even look at it. It's just silly Hollywood fiction movie writer material. Which is fine, but that's all it is.
Frankly, it's already known how the universe was born, and how it will die around 35 trillion years from now, when the final quark fizzles out. I'd advise telling descendants to cash-out the card collection around 34 trillion years from now, to get maximum value. LOL
Ancient Aliens, the Pyramids, Area 51, the government. They're all watching us as we speak. It's a conspiracy Steve, a conspiracy!
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
The problem is that every single one of his "major" theories has been thoroughly debunked.
Perhaps the most famous one was how could the Egyptians possibly build the pyramids without alien help? Simple, it's known as scaffolding, which is exactly how they did it.
The aliens gave the Egyptians knowledge to build the pyramids Steve, the Egyptians probably offered the aliens a couple hours with some lovely ladies and a few bottles of wine in exchange for the blueprints for the pyramids. 🤔
I've jumped out of planes, voluntarily, 6x and would do it again in a second. Might do it again soon.
It will change your brain. First jump was when I graduated UGA 30+ years ago, completely changed my outlook on life for the better and my cheeks hurt from smiling and being on an adrenaline high with no sleep for the better part of 3 days. Chefs kiss, but I've taken folks and have seen the other sides as well - they freaked and curse doing it or said one and done and never again.
You couldn't get me on any of those rock climbing/cliff walking things, ever.
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While in college back in 1993, I skydived (skydove?). It was a tandem jump - didn’t have the $s to spring for the extra training required to solo. Damn glad I tandem jumped - instead of arching, I kinda tucked… saw the underside of the plane twice while tumbling, with my tandem coach yelling “arch, dammit, arch” in my ear
Eventually arched or who knows what would’ve happened.
Jumped from 13,500 ft, free fall of 8k ft in about a minute. Glad I did it once, not sure I’d do it again!
Jim
Yep, "Chariots of the Gods" sold a lot of books.
Life would sure be more interesting if it was true.
You've got some guts my friend, my goodness. Last night my wife asked me would I seriously consider doing it if someone offered me a million dollars, and I thought about it and I just couldn't go through with it, I just couldn't put my trust in a parachute. If that parachute doesn't open properly, it isn't going to end well.
I actually watched the documentary for that book a few years ago, very intriguing, highly recommended. 👍
I’d definitely do it again for enough money. I think skydiving violates my life insurance, so if someone wants to pay me $1 more than my life insurance payout, I’m 1,000% in.
Jim
The problem is that every single one of his "major" theories has been thoroughly debunked.
Perhaps the most famous one was how could the Egyptians possibly build the pyramids without alien help? Simple, it's known as scaffolding, which is exactly how they did it.
The aliens gave the Egyptians knowledge to build the pyramids Steve, the Egyptians probably offered the aliens a couple hours with some lovely ladies and a few bottles of wine in exchange for the blueprints for the pyramids. 🤔
That's enough theory talk for today, how about some Bachman Turner Overdrive. Good night everyone!
Cleopatra may have been involved.
jordon hudson ?
i hear she digs ancient mummies , would be what i was implying
I've jumped out of planes, voluntarily, 6x and would do it again in a second. Might do it again soon.
It will change your brain. First jump was when I graduated UGA 30+ years ago, completely changed my outlook on life for the better and my cheeks hurt from smiling and being on an adrenaline high with no sleep for the better part of 3 days. Chefs kiss, but I've taken folks and have seen the other sides as well - they freaked and curse doing it or said one and done and never again.
You couldn't get me on any of those rock climbing/cliff walking things, ever.