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Aug 6 2010 10:15pm
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the amount of technology required to cross the galaxy in a single life span is un imaginable to us atm, and if a alien race were to be able to achieve this feat would mean there hundreds of thousands if not millions of more years advanced then us. They wouldent come present them selves to us because there would be no point, they would simply observe us with robotics cause the amount of energy required to send robots into space is significantly less then actual life forms, why do you think we send probes to Jupiter and not humans?

let me put it in perspective.

Imagine a ant hill next to a 10 lane super highway, the ants go about there daily business not knowing or understand what the highway is completely ignorant to the huge mass of technology and innovation 20 feet away from there home, and we humans dont go to the ants and try to explain to them what its purpose is and how it works because its useless the ants wouldn't understand, humans just simply sit and observe the ants not trying to communicate with them.

in this analogy the ants are humans and the humans are the advanced alien race.

Aliens wont present them selves until we reach the comparable intelligence of what a dog is to a human, at least then some sort of communication could be exchanged


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the wobble is all ready 99.9% complete  on 2012 it will finish the last .1%    you act like its a sudden change  when its a slow ass process that takes place over many years  its not black and white like your implying  there is a shit ton of gray in there


IM NOT EVEN FUCKING SUPPORTING IT CALM DOWN LOL
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I'm not worried - it's the same like millenium.
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If the poles WERE to shift the tectonic plates of the planet would begin to travel at speeds as high as 10km/h the forces exerted from plates being forced under each other against each other and over each other would be so great that the resulting earthquakes would be like nothing we had ever seen before. The force would be so strong that the entire earth would shake.

Seeming as this 'supposedly' happens every 26000 years and we have been here 1.8 million years, I highly doubt pole shifts actually take place.


The is no "if" or "supposedly" about it... evidence exists in the alignment of iron based particles in rock formations, (often denoted by black and white stripes to indicate the "normal" N-S form eaths magnetic field, or the abnormal of S-N form.)

And it does not simply occur every 26 thousand years, there is a great deal of variation of the amount of time when the poles shift.



(also, more evidence exists if you study "Polar Wandering"- that is the tracking of landmass movement over millions of years using the alignment of fe-rich particles in relation to the magnetic pole)


You are right to say it is probable this wont occur at the date mentioned due to the huge variation of time between shifts.

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Aug 7 2010 11:01pm
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the amount of technology required to cross the galaxy in a single life span is un imaginable to us atm, and if a alien race were to be able to achieve this feat would mean there hundreds of thousands if not millions of more years advanced then us. They wouldent come present them selves to us because there would be no point, they would simply observe us with robotics cause the amount of energy required to send robots into space is significantly less then actual life forms, why do you think we send probes to Jupiter and not humans?

let me put it in perspective.

Imagine a ant hill next to a 10 lane super highway, the ants go about there daily business not knowing or understand what the highway is completely ignorant to the huge mass of technology and innovation 20 feet away from there home, and we humans dont go to the ants and try to explain to them what its purpose is and how it works because its useless the ants wouldn't understand, humans just simply sit and observe the ants not trying to communicate with them.

in this analogy the ants are humans and the humans are the advanced alien race.

Aliens wont present them selves until we reach the comparable intelligence of what a dog is to a human, at least then some sort of communication could be exchanged


your analogy is correct, but imo your degree is completely off. humans occupy and control the entire planet, and we are already entering space. so in this respect, we are more like their dumb neighbors rather than ants on their highway. you also mention that it would take hundreds of thousands of years - millions of years before we're able to cross the galaxy in one life span? considering our rate of growth during our short time of existence, you are selling us a bit short. we are already now planning to send people to mars.
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your analogy is correct, but imo your degree is completely off. humans occupy and control the entire planet, and we are already entering space. so in this respect, we are more like their dumb neighbors rather than ants on their highway. you also mention that it would take hundreds of thousands of years - millions of years before we're able to cross the galaxy in one life span? considering our rate of growth during our short time of existence, you are selling us a bit short. we are already now planning to send people to mars.


we are still in the process of creating a safe haven for people to even be able to just breathe/able to withstand climate on a foreign planet

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the amount of technology required to cross the galaxy in a single life span is un imaginable to us atm, and if a alien race were to be able to achieve this feat would mean there hundreds of thousands if not millions of more years advanced then us. They wouldent come present them selves to us because there would be no point, they would simply observe us with robotics cause the amount of energy required to send robots into space is significantly less then actual life forms, why do you think we send probes to Jupiter and not humans?

let me put it in perspective.

Imagine a ant hill next to a 10 lane super highway,  the ants go about there daily business not knowing or understand what the highway is  completely ignorant to the huge mass of technology and innovation 20 feet away from there home, and we humans dont go to the ants and try to explain to them what its purpose is and how it works  because its useless the ants wouldn't understand, humans just simply sit and observe the ants  not trying to communicate with them. 

in this analogy  the ants are humans  and the humans are the advanced alien race.

Aliens wont present them selves until we reach the comparable intelligence of what a dog is to a human, at least then some sort of communication could be exchanged


I know what u are saying but cmon ants? They communicate through scent lol. We would atleast be like humans are to bears or sharks where they would attack us for defense or because they are hungry(not saying we would eat them lol). We would try to kill them because we would see them as a threat to us.

And if they could travel half way across the galaxy they could probably speak our language and have a disguise as a human(which they can and they do)
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Aug 9 2010 02:53am
I doubt it will be what most people are tink it will be
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only god can define when the world is going to end, not some crappy primates.
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I'm worried about..

A corona mass ejection cutting off my power for a day or so. Thats about it.
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