Aliens

Yeah, but speaking biologically, nothing is destroyed - the only energy we lose is through heat, and the only energy that is produced is by producers, using photosynthesis, from the Sun.
All water, nutrients, etc, are just recycled. Maybe the population of humans increases or decreases, but that's such a tiny, insignificant fraction of the Universe.
And I just meant, how does the actual universe get larger? Because that's what's happening, right? With the Big-Bang, then everything blowing outwards. ...From nothing?
>.<

Tiger Lily:

Yeah, but speaking biologically, nothing is destroyed - the only energy we lose is through heat, and the only energy that is produced is by producers, using photosynthesis, from the Sun.
All water, nutrients, etc, are just recycled. Maybe the population of humans increases or decreases, but that's such a tiny, insignificant fraction of the Universe.
And I just meant, how does the actual universe get larger? Because that's what's happening, right? With the Big-Bang, then everything blowing outwards. ...From nothing?
>.<

Time-space continuum?
Maybe because there's more time there's more space?
I don't know.
I'm not a science buff by any means.

So what is time?

We did or we didn't just invent time for our means?

I mean, I notice after travelling from Australia to Asia to Europe in a matter of days that time basically disappears. There's only the vague idea of hours - 6 hours there, 10 hours here. Time seems to be this wispy, frail concept that determines day and night, and, fickle as it is, changes all around the world.

But there's a bigger Time, right?

Time in the most basic sense is simple: past, present, future.
What has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.
Take away minutes, days, hours, etc.
You still have past, present, future.

Also, which would be more real, time or space?

Is time the amount of distance one can cover in a predetermined unit? Because certainly, if it takes me half an hour to walk somwhere that in a car would be considered nearby, and mere hours to fly somewhere thousands of times the distance .. that makes it quite relative ..
Or is distance the amount of time it takes to journey between two places?

druscilla; insain:

Time in the most basic sense is simple: past, present, future.
What has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.
Take away minutes, days, hours, etc.
You still have past, present, future.

But the future doesn't exist at all, and is completely at the mercy of our actions in the present.

And the past only exists in our minds.
Say you have a mental disease where you remember things wrong.
If you have "memories" of a childhood that wasn't yours, that's all the reality you can experience, right? And even if someone tried to tell you it's wrong, who's to say that they are correct? Because all that we can see of the past is what we experience of it with our senses - things left behind - and memory.

The Now is all we have, really.

Tiger Lily:

druscilla; insain:

Time in the most basic sense is simple: past, present, future.
What has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.
Take away minutes, days, hours, etc.
You still have past, present, future.

But the future doesn't exist at all, and is completely at the mercy of our actions in the present.

And the past only exists in our minds.
Say you have a mental disease where you remember things wrong.
If you have "memories" of a childhood that wasn't yours, that's all the reality you can experience, right? And even if someone tried to tell you it's wrong, who's to say that they are correct? Because all that we can see of the past is what we experience of it with our senses - things left behind - and memory.

The Now is all we have, really.

I have to disagree.
Because I can't say that my proposal to my fiance didn't exist.
Or that my seven stays in hospitals didn't exist.
Or that my high school graduation didn't exist.
Or that my wedding won't happen.
I guess it all depends on your perspective.

Why can't you say they don't exist?

Have you ever gone up to someone you believe was involved and asked them if it happened?
If it did, congratulations, you're perhaps.. sainer than some.
Or at least, a fraction of your life experiences have been "validated".

Tiger Lily:

Why can't you say they don't exist?

Have you ever gone up to someone you believe was involved and asked them if it happened?
If it did, congratulations, you're perhaps.. sainer than some.
Or at least, a fraction of your life experiences have been "validated".

Well, my fiance says it happened.
And I get constant congratulations on it.
The only one who was really involved was my fiance, though.
I mean, I proposed to her.
You're confusing me . . .

druscilla; insain:

Tiger Lily:

Why can't you say they don't exist?

Have you ever gone up to someone you believe was involved and asked them if it happened?
If it did, congratulations, you're perhaps.. sainer than some.
Or at least, a fraction of your life experiences have been "validated".

Well, my fiance says it happened.
And I get constant congratulations on it.
The only one who was really involved was my fiance, though.
I mean, I proposed to her.
You're confusing me . . .

=) I'm sorry.

But I suppose by the justice of the universe, because your engagement exists in the present, you may be able to - carefully. Not too fast, soft, soft, as Olivia says - state that yes, indeed, it happened.

The universe is everything, but it is also everywhere.
Or so my former Physics teacher said. Basically, the universe is the sum total of matter everywhere the end goodbye. It doesn't expand into anything. It already is everything.

He also said I was wrong when I said the universe was infinite, he said it was just rlyrlyrlyrly big.

And SETI have been listening for signs of extra-terrrestrial life for 40 years and have found nothing yet.

I'm not too sure about the scientific facts, but I believe that there is definitley a possibility that there are aliens or there were.

It says that about.. 1,300 light-years from here, there's a some-what pitch-black i-can't-explain part of galaxy. It has no star, as in completely nothing. And after that part in our space, here comes the stars again and other heavenly bodies. Others [including my brother] think that in that pitch black part of space is where the "aliens" stay and they say that it is pitch black 'cause maybe those aliens are protecting themselves. *shrugs* I don't know.

I don't think that aliens necessarily live in outer space.
I believe that they inhabit small objects that we don't think twice about, and that in the larger picture, we inhabit one of those objects as well.
Like in 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' film, how the Whos lived inside a snowflake.
Something unimportant like that.

Anyone seen that McPhersons Tape? Where theres footage of a family who claim that their are aliens in their house?

The Size of the Universe

We're not alone :mrgreen:

^that video was cool. I didn't know some of that stuff.

Scientists and astronauts say there might be water on Mars therefore there could have been life on it. Everyone seems under the impression that water is needed for life to exist. Maybe on our planet, but who's to say that aliens can't survive without water. We know very little about then after all.

^ There is water on Mars.
There's ice - which is just frozen water.

But I know what you mean about the water thing. I know the movie had nothing actually to do with aliens, but in Signs, the aliens weakness was water.
So it is possible only Earth needs water to survive.
For all we know aliens could live off carbon monoxide.

I watched something on this on the history chanel this morning...
I didnt really watch that much but I know it said something about how we wouldnt re-act as badly as was potrayed in movies if alians came...

TheOldPervertedNinja:

I watched something on this on the history chanel this morning...
I didnt really watch that much but I know it said something about how we wouldnt re-act as badly as was potrayed in movies if alians came...

really? I think we would re-act very badly if they came to earth. Many people would probably we scared shitless, other's would we taking the poor aliens for testing and keep it in some science lab and any government with nuclear weapons will start dishing them out immeadiatly.