BF2S Forums What if alien lifeforms were from the past and not the future?

snuten_i_sjoholmen wrote:

PureFodder wrote:

Deadmonkiefart wrote:

The reason that it is generally assumed that any aliens we encounter will be more advanced than us is that, for how old the rest of the universe is, Earth is extremely young.  The chances of us finding another planet close to the earth in age is very slim.

This really depends on what this alien life is like. For some life form that works on something near the same systems as us, ie carbon based, requiring metals etc. there is a requirements for a planet orbiting a second generation star, a star that has formed out of the remnants of another star. Only in this circumstance will there be enough of the heavier elements to form life as we know it. We are therefore pretty much at the earliest possible time in which life could have evolved, indicating we will be the most advanced. If we compare how long the universe has been around to how long we expect it to hang around for, we really are right at the beginning.

What?? Living organisms have been living on earth for about 3900 million years, and humans have been around for only about 1 million year. Don't you think there could be a Chance that some intelligent aliens have been living on their planet millions of years earlier than us?? I am pretty certain their is several civilizations out there that are thousands of times smarter and more advanced than us. We are in war with etch other and have millions of people starving. If we are the most intelligent in all of the universe it's crazy.

I agree with you we are pretty f*cked up...

Instead of solving problems like global warming and hunger, bush is more interested in wars with "terrorism" and  communism....

But the middle east really is f*cked up too, why the f**k do they have to run around blowing themselves and others up all the time??

And concerning the nuklear projects in Iran, there should be NOTHING radioactive in the middle east.. it can only end with either a new chernobyl or the first terrorist nuclear bomb...........

The whole world is just f*cked !     screw it, i'm moving to Mars!

I think that we would not land on there planet in the first place.  Think about it, would it be wise to bring a flying spaceship into a civilization that has not even discovered how fly yet?  If this time comes when we do take space exploration to a new level then we need to change the way we are now.

We fight our own kind for resources when we could be working together and forging a stronger planet.  Once we can live together as brothers and not kill each other, then and only then i would think that our civilization is ready to explore with ships beyond our Star System.

In my opinion our kind is just entering the adult years, its time for us to change.

"Obviously it would be destroyed", surely that depends on if there's oil there or not ;p
"would NASA or other private space companies even want to continue space exploration?" Perhaps, just perhaps, the most retarded comment I've heard in a long time. You reckon that once we find some group, that's the "exploration" done? Imagine the conversations...

~We've found life on this planet
~Yus yus, we've discovered the universe now, lets go home.

/sigh

PureFodder wrote:

snuten_i_sjoholmen wrote:

PureFodder wrote:

This really depends on what this alien life is like. For some life form that works on something near the same systems as us, ie carbon based, requiring metals etc. there is a requirements for a planet orbiting a second generation star, a star that has formed out of the remnants of another star. Only in this circumstance will there be enough of the heavier elements to form life as we know it. We are therefore pretty much at the earliest possible time in which life could have evolved, indicating we will be the most advanced. If we compare how long the universe has been around to how long we expect it to hang around for, we really are right at the beginning.

What?? Living organisms have been living on earth for about 3900 million years, and humans have been around for only about 1 million year. Don't you think there could be a Chance that some intelligent aliens have been living on their planet millions of years earlier than us?? I am pretty certain their is several civilizations out there that are thousands of times smarter and more advanced than us. We are in war with etch other and have millions of people starving. If we are the most intelligent in all of the universe it's crazy.

The fact that life on Earth came so quickly after the formation of the universe is fairly surprising. There really isn't alot of scope for a similar carbon based life form to have evolved much earlier than us.

There are millions of stars like ours, there is plenty of scope for other carbon-based life forms. We might be at an early time for the universe, but for life thats a long long long time.

The real question is, what if the aliens had oil?

Pubic wrote:

The real question is, what if the aliens had oil?

Haha, you hit the nail on the head dude +1

If they did Bush would add them to his Axis of evil