A Fascinatingly Disturbing Thought ...

[Terrorfex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRXn96HrtY

 

 

Does other life exist on other worlds? Even if it does, it may not ever care enough to come and say hello.

[fatshaft]

Nae watching that, cliff notes?

[dervish]

We are 1% different to monkeys and much "smarter". Imagine if aliens are only 1% different in the same way, how smart would they be? BOOM!

[Ke1t]

Nae watching that, cliff notes?

 

Didn't watch it, but if memory serves me the vid goes something like this...

 

There are humans. There might be aliens. There are definitely monkeys.

 

There's only a 1 or 2% variation in the DNA between humans and chimps.

 

That 1% difference allows us to build space stations, lazorgunzpewpewpew, and to conceive of incredible future projects like FTL drive, Arcologies and mechanical dragons.

 

Meanwhile chimps throw shit at each other and wank in public.

 

That's what a tiny 1% difference in DNA means in practical terms.

 

Out there is an alien race. Maybe.

 

What if that alien race is, say, 2, 3 or 4% different from us in the same direction we are different from monkeys?

 

We'd be fucked if we ever encountered that race.... we'd be earthworms in comparison with them, so forget about trading, interacting or even communicating with them. In fact, given how we would appear to them, what are the chances they'd even treat us like a sentient species? They'd likely exterminate us without even considering us intelligent, in the same way you might exterminate an ants' nest.

 

Incidentally, I know chimps are apes, not monkeys, before anyone corrects me.

 

DeGrasse Tyson is possibly my favourite post-Hitchens speaker. Just far too clever by half.

[The Oxford Don]

Didn't watch it, but if memory serves me the vid goes something like this...

 

There are humans. There might be aliens. There are definitely monkeys.

 

There's only a 1 or 2% variation in the DNA between humans and chimps.

 

That 1% difference allows us to build space stations, lazorgunzpewpewpew, and to conceive of incredible future projects like FTL drive, Arcologies and mechanical dragons.

 

Meanwhile chimps throw shit at each other and wank in public.

 

That's what a tiny 1% difference in DNA means in practical terms.

 

Out there is an alien race. Maybe.

 

What if that alien race is, say, 2, 3 or 4% different from us in the same direction we are different from monkeys?

 

We'd be fucked if we ever encountered that race.... we'd be earthworms in comparison with them, so forget about trading, interacting or even communicating with them. In fact, given how we would appear to them, what are the chances they'd even treat us like a sentient species? They'd likely exterminate us without even considering us intelligent, in the same way you might exterminate an ants' nest.

 

Incidentally, I know chimps are apes, not monkeys, before anyone corrects me.

 

DeGrasse Tyson is possibly my favourite post-Hitchens speaker. Just far too clever by half.

 

Stephen Hawking makes much the same point, doesn't he? Can be (very loosely) summarised as:

 

"Yes of course there are alien civilisations 'out there', and of course we don't want to encounter one because if they are capable of getting here then they are so far ahead of us, it really would not end well for the humans".

 

Frankly, he makes a damn good point.

[muttondressedaslamb]

Didn't watch it, but if memory serves me the vid goes something like this...

 

There are humans. There might be aliens. There are definitely monkeys.

 

There's only a 1 or 2% variation in the DNA between humans and chimps.

 

That 1% difference allows us to build space stations, lazorgunzpewpewpew, and to conceive of incredible future projects like FTL drive, Arcologies and mechanical dragons.

 

Meanwhile chimps throw shit at each other and wank in public.

 

That's what a tiny 1% difference in DNA means in practical terms.

 

Out there is an alien race. Maybe.

 

What if that alien race is, say, 2, 3 or 4% different from us in the same direction we are different from monkeys?

 

We'd be fucked if we ever encountered that race.... we'd be earthworms in comparison with them, so forget about trading, interacting or even communicating with them. In fact, given how we would appear to them, what are the chances they'd even treat us like a sentient species? They'd likely exterminate us without even considering us intelligent, in the same way you might exterminate an ants' nest.

 

Incidentally, I know chimps are apes, not monkeys, before anyone corrects me.

 

DeGrasse Tyson is possibly my favourite post-Hitchens speaker. Just far too clever by half.

 

So basically just the same as Dervish said but lacking in the skill of being succinct?

[Ke1t]

So basically just the same as Dervish said but lacking in the skill of being succinct?

 

I don't do succinct.

 

If you want succinct take your business elsewhere.

 

[muttondressedaslamb]

I don't do succinct.

 

If you want succinct take your business elsewhere.

 

 

Don't we know it!

Still, it must dividends in the bedroom with the wife.

[Terrorfex]

Dervish summed it up more positively by omitting the fact that possible alien civilisations would view us with the same disdain we reserve for jute minks. Kelt summed it like it is.

 

The third planet from Sol is the Dundee of the Local Galactic Cluster. Probably.

[Ke1t]

Don't we know it!

 

Verbacious, you might say.

 

Still, it must dividends in the bedroom with the wife.

 

Well, I'm pretty good at shagging, if that's what you're getting at. I guarantee at least one orgasm* and mop up per session, because I'm committed to quality. That's just how I am.

 

 

 

*Fair enough that orgasm might be mine, like.

[RTYD]

Didn't watch it, but if memory serves me the vid goes something like this...

 

There are humans. There might be aliens. There are definitely monkeys.

 

There's only a 1 or 2% variation in the DNA between humans and chimps.

 

That 1% difference allows us to build space stations, lazorgunzpewpewpew, and to conceive of incredible future projects like FTL drive, Arcologies and mechanical dragons. (Aberdeen)

 

Meanwhile chimps throw shit at each other and wank in public. (Glasgow)

 

That's what a tiny 1% difference in DNA means in practical terms.

 

Out there is an alien race. Maybe.

 

What if that alien race is, say, 2, 3 or 4% different from us in the same direction we are different from monkeys?

 

We'd be fucked if we ever encountered that race.... we'd be earthworms in comparison with them, so forget about trading, interacting or even communicating with them. In fact, given how we would appear to them, what are the chances they'd even treat us like a sentient species? They'd likely exterminate us without even considering us intelligent, in the same way you might exterminate an ants' nest.

 

Incidentally, I know chimps are apes, not monkeys, before anyone corrects me.

 

DeGrasse Tyson is possibly my favourite post-Hitchens speaker. Just far too clever by half.

 

That explains the difference. Thanks.

[spamspamspam]

For clever chaps they havent really thought this through much have they.

 

There is only about 1.5% difference between an ape and a monkey. That equates to the difference between having a fat red heart shaped arse

 

 

and smoking a fag in the zoo.

 

[StandFree1982]

 

That 1% difference allows us to build space stations, lazorgunzpewpewpew, and to conceive of incredible future projects like FTL drive, Arcologies and mechanical dragons.

 

Meanwhile chimps throw shit at each other and wank in public.

To be fair, some humans still throw shit at each other and wank in public. We're not as far removed as we'd like to think! Or at least, some people are not as far removed from shit throwing primates as they would like.

[BrianFaePerth]

 

How far fae this to Bluto?

[StandFree1982]

How far fae this to Bluto?

Give them both some spelling tests, we'll soon find out.

[tup]

How far fae this to Bluto?

 

Just a quick tweak to the NDA and you have bluto.

[Bluto10]

congrats byen, its taken you into december to say something funny this year.

[BrianFaePerth]

congrats byen, its taken you into december to say something funny this year.

 

Cheers Bloots, there's time for you yet.

[Bluto10]

Give them both some spelling tests, we'll soon find out.

 

i can spell, alright. but it would be interetsting to see your educational background now your throwing around insults.

[Bluto10]

Just a quick tweak to the NDA and you have bluto.

 

only 5 fingers and toes in my dna tup.