BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 12:55 PM

I've identified some alien life forms in this community but they do not exhibit much sign of intelligence.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 06:49 PM

It's a little more understandable in Obama's case. His ears are pretty noticeable, specially with his very short haircut. But I think it basically comes down to political cartoonists just being opportunistic people with a killer instinct. They go after the usual easy stuff...just like kids in junior high school when they're picking on other kids.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 02:38 PM

Several political cartoons lately showing Obama with big ears. Transplant from Bush?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 02:10 PM

I have always believed that I am the alien in this weird world. Left behind by a space ship?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 12:20 PM

As far as I'm concerned, I AM living in an alien culture right now!

Or does that make me the alien?

Well, it's a matter of individual perspective, isn't it? See my thread about the Village of the Mad for an explanation.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Stu
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 12:17 PM

"Don't know, now, whether I were relieved or disappointed to discover the truth."

We don't know the truth, but study into ALH84001 has been ongoing since it was found and I think we're edging close to a conclusion:

An interesting article from last November

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 11:59 AM

HEard on the radio this morning:

The biggest argument for INTELLIGENT life out there is that they've never tried to contact us.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 09:02 AM

I remember the Clinton quotation referred to by Donuel. I heard and saw it on Television one early morning after a night spent in company during which copious quantities of various drinks &c were consumed, and I had walked home rather unsteadily and with a mind that wandered rather more than my feet. So, when I heard none other than the President of the USA chatting about alien life being discovered, I thought either I was REALLY away with it or the War of the Worlds was kicking off (and I wasn't sober enough to keep awake). But, in case I had imagined the whole thing, just to remind myself in the morning of what one can imagine, I scrawled it down on a sheet of paper.

Don't know, now, whether I were relieved or disappointed to discover the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 12:45 AM

IMO, we have met the aliens and they are us. (Thanks, Walt.)

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 07:46 AM

I think it would be an error to assume they have our typical set of social weaknesses... ;-) They'd have invaded us and taken over long ago if that were the case (assuming they hadn't killed each other off first with their own wars and environmental destruction).

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 07:13 AM

We all be images in their Holideck?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:21 PM

Maybe we are their Vegas ...

got little betting cages on what is going to happen next

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 05:48 PM

I assume aliens are around here from time to time.
THese aliens are not bound by our 3D limitaions of mono directional time. They have seen our growth, discoveries and eventual total destruction, which makes thier tour buses in time a real money maker.
Some of the UFOS merely measure certain cities for visual reproduction elsewhere. Perhaps Earth makes a nice soundstage for thier entertainment.
They don't need close encounters of the 3rd kind when they can recreate virtual encounters in any time or space.

With that kind of technology I WOULD DEARLY LOVE to go back and kidnap Ludwig Von Beethoven and bring him here, clip a Sansa Clip mp3 player on him put earphones in his ears and crank up his 9th symphony! WHOA the look on his face. Precious.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 05:33 PM

"So why have so many political cartoonists drawn him [G W Bush) with huge ears that stick way, waaaaay out from his head?"

Little Hawk, it is my impression that cartoonists are not that bright. I believe they had GW confused with Prince Charles.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 04:28 PM

Perhaps. But not if they have compassion for those who are suffering...

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 04:17 PM

Maybe we are a sitcom for them

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 03:50 PM

GfS - They might be looking for something else here. They might just be curious. They might be attempting to increase their knowledge of other planets and star systems. They might be looking for a way to quarantine us in order to protect the rest of the solar system FROM us. Any number of possibilities, I would think. The only way you could know for sure is: ask them.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 03:17 PM

You're in denial, John. I thought this thread was about you.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 03:09 PM

Rapaire; "Ah! But is there intelligent life on Earth?"

Makes you wonder, if there was an intelligent and technologically advanced society out there, why would they be looking for intelligent life here??? ....Maybe, they have very advanced zoo tour buses!

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Paul Burke
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 02:01 PM

Maybe they are, Donuel, but recent research suggests that they're also
essential for nerve function.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Stu
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 12:32 PM

"Are those cartoonists hallucinating or are they just engaging in some form of wishful projection that satisfies their own destructive desires?"

I think it's a device to emphasise his simian characteristics.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:51 AM

Prions are more like alien bio weapons

They eat our brains, give us Alzheimers and leave us unable to see the difference between our loved ones and aliens.




Life forms can be so spread out we don't notice.
THink of an ant colony where each tiny being acts in concert with the whole.

SImilar beings composed of seperate motes of intelligently controlled co oridination but so small, pervasive and spread out that we generally don't notice. Virus for sure, but think of beings a bit larger.
Even on a galactic scale...   The galaxy itself?
no the galaxies are but the connective tissue of one mote...

ooooooooooooo cool

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Mr Happy
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:25 AM

No!

Not more immigrants!!

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:19 AM

I have studied Bush's photo quite closely, and I see nothing unusual about the size or shape of his ears. They are not larger than average ears, in fact they seem to be fairly small ears, I'd say. They rest close to his head, they don't stick out notably. They are modest ears as ears go. So why have so many political cartoonists drawn him with huge ears that stick way, waaaaay out from his head?

Hmmm?

Are those cartoonists hallucinating or are they just engaging in some form of wishful projection that satisfies their own destructive desires?

I don't say this because I like George Bush. I detest his political stance and record. I say it because I think it is inappropriate and arbitrary for cartoonists to make a big point of exaggerating Bush's ears when there is really nothing unusual about his ears in the first place.

He is a bit toon-like, but he doesn't have big ears.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:48 AM

"I believe George W. Bush is a toon"

It was discovered early

It even works in reverse

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:33 AM

I was in the library some years ago, and my eye fell upon a book called "Who Killed Roger Rabbit?" (Later there was a movie by that name, but I don't know how true it was to the book.)

The book introduced the idea of 'toons' among us. Toons are cartoon characters that have left the big screen and live among us. Roger Rabbit was a toon, a rich and famous one. Not all tunes look silly. Some look just like humans, but they lack the richness of character and conscience that humans have.

I believe George W. Bush is a toon. So is the woman across the street.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: TheSnail
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:25 AM

According to the sage Les Barker, "There are Eileens among us."

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 08:55 AM

Ah! But is there intelligent life on Earth?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 08:49 AM

Seas of Cheese
by Primus

When the going gets tough
And the stomach acids flow
The cold wind of conformity
Is nipping at your nose
When some trendy new atrocity
Has brought you to your knees
Come with us, we'll sail the
Seas of Cheese

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Stu
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 06:44 AM

"but finding another DNA form or a non-DNA form of life would be interesting."

You might be interested in prions. These are protein chains that can evolve, and behave rather like viruses. I have no idea whether they would be considered alive or not but I suspect that the line between what constitutes a distinct life-form and what doesn't is blurred anyway.

Spaw's right - the real trick is going to be recognising life-forms so alien to us they seem inanimate or inorganic. We've got a hell of a long way to go on this yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 04:22 AM

Quick, Scotty, beam me up now, before it's too late!...Get us back to Sanity!@!!

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 04:17 AM

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it...

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: olddude
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:25 PM

SPAW IS THAT KINDA LIKE A REPUBLICAN ?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:14 PM

nagh beQ nejwI' 'Itlh !!

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:00 PM

CURSES — DISCOVERED

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:56 PM

I personally like the thought that different amino acids joined together in some other atmosphere somewhere else in the universe. This lifeform might have been around billions of years before us and now has come to visit. But since they are so different, we don't recognize them as a lifeform...........and they don't recognize us.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:51 PM

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:41 PM

Here is something that struck me as alien.

it is official.

We are going to exume Leonardo D'Vinci (a 2nd time btw) just to see if his skull could reveal if the Mona Lisa is really a self portrait of Leonard as a 28 year old woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: olddude
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:34 PM

We have met the aliens and they are us

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 08:57 PM

Here Come the Bastards

Here they come
Here come the bastards
I heard it from a confidant -
Who heard it form a confidant
They're definitely on their way
There's one with this idea
Something about a hammer head shark
Nosehairs and flatus
Best keep your distance because
Here they come here come the bastards
Bury your head deep in the sand
Anonymity is a virtue in this day and age
Amazing hand dexterity
Flagrant misuse of security
Better run, run, run, run, run
Run Run Run Run, here they come.

by Primus

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 08:34 PM

Good the scientist have finally found Mudcat...

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 08:02 PM

Wake the alien genie, should we?

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 06:21 PM

We need to go no further than some of the organisms posting below the belt in Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 06:21 PM

He's clearly had his eye on this forum...

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:42 PM

"Unusual organisms abound "
I suggest Mudcats first search be in the Mother of all BS thread. Seems to me that remenants of unusual organisms thrive there....but that's just my observation, not a scientificly derived theory....that could be officially presented at any Royal Mudcat Society event.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:28 PM

carbon, and methane molecules

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:26 PM

There are 3 distinct forms of DNA life on Earth. Flora , Fauna and mineral chemical (ocean floor and miles underground,
but finding another DNA form or a non-DNA form of life would be interesting.

The nano bacterial form (smaller than some viri) is what was thought to be in a neteor from Mars but it does seem to be merely a chemical by product of crystalization. Clinton even made an announcment about it that was pasted in the movie COntact.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: olddude
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:26 PM

Ahhh Bill Ahhh what kinda chemicals ... can ya get high on it ??
thats where Maui Wowie came from, I knew it LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:20 PM

Scientist says 'maybe'...and *I* could have said that much. *grin*.\

It's even a common idea that life might have originated from chemicals in comets, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Scientist says alien life is on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:18 PM

It said alien life forms are under our nose.

its the booger man