Things you want to share with P&B

[GordonD]

10 hours ago, johnnydun said:

Fuckin tell me about it! 

Not long discovered that my neighbour is due up in court for 2 rapes and multiple sexual assaults. 

To be fair it's not the thing that gets casually mentioned over the garden fence.

[throbber]

5 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

First one doesn't deviate from its position relative to the attitude bars on the HUD.

The one that goes in the sea doesn't make a splash.

 

 

That’s because alien flight crafts don’t follow the laws of physics on this planet.

[welshbairn]

5 minutes ago, throbber said:

That’s because alien flight crafts don’t follow the laws of physics on this planet.

You could only know that if you are an alien. I think some rectal probing would be in order.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

 

[BFTD]

Somebody should be taking odds on which tinfoil hat wearing cult throbber ends up joining.

He's clearly been weighing up his options for a while now.

[bennett]

2 hours ago, throbber said:

Anyone see these UFO videos released by pentagon yesterday?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/pentagon-releases-three-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1588053940

 

First one looks like aggressor training from certain angles, second one looks like a glitch.

 

 

[Shandon Par]

1 hour ago, throbber said:

That’s because alien flight crafts don’t follow the laws of physics on this planet.

 

1 hour ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Somebody should be taking odds on which tinfoil hat wearing cult throbber ends up joining.

He's clearly been weighing up his options for a while now.

Don't mean to worry you throbber but have you ever spoken to a doctor about the possibility that you have schizotypal disorder? Following conspiracy theories is a big indicator of it, along with isolation (eg getting blitzed in the kitchen), inappropriate behaviour (eg constantly sending cock pics), social anxiety and strange beliefs (eg the old woman watching you, worrying about visitors). Medication and therapy can help. 

Your concerned friend

SP

[throbber]

3 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

 

Don't mean to worry you throbber but have you ever spoken to a doctor about the possibility that you have schizotypal disorder? Following conspiracy theories is a big indicator of it, along with isolation (eg getting blitzed in the kitchen), inappropriate behaviour (eg constantly sending cock pics), social anxiety and strange beliefs (eg the old woman watching you, worrying about visitors). Medication and therapy can help. 

Your concerned friend

SP

Your being very selective when talking about my behaviours though, most the time I’m fairly normal. Plus I don’t want to go bothering the health service with any my problems in this current climate: 

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

Do people on here believe that there is nothing out there, and that we are the only inhabited planet in the universe?

Thank you.

[Bully Wee Villa]

No, but the distances are so big we might as well be. Wouldn't be amazed if they found very simple life under an ice sheet on Europa or somewhere like that, but the chances of us encountering intelligent life and having Star Trek-style adventures with them in our lifetime are about the same as the odds of Clyde winning the Champions League ten years running.

[GordonD]

2 hours ago, welshbairn said:

You could only know that if you are an alien. I think some rectal probing would be in order.

Are you volunteering to be the prober or probee?

[Granny Danger]

21 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

No, but the distances are so big we might as well be. Wouldn't be amazed if they found very simple life under an ice sheet on Europa or somewhere like that, but the chances of us encountering intelligent life and having Star Trek-style adventures with them in our lifetime are about the same as the odds of Clyde winning the Champions League ten years running.

Encountering intelligent life on here is difficult enough let alone aliens.

[welshbairn]

7 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

No. I've been reading about this recently and it's a fascinating subject. In our galaxy there's probably trillions of places that have the things needed for life to develop (current estimates are 25% of stars have a planet in the goldilocks zone, and then on top of this are all the moons of gas giants like Enceladus and Europa that are candidates too. There's even been some research suggesting life developed more than once on earth. So the odds of us being the main deal are laughably small.

But then that invokes the Fermi Paradox  - if probability tells us there's got to be life all over the place, why have we not seen any of it? It implies, philosophically speaking, that all potential civilisations out there encounter some insurmountable obstacle that destroys them. So then the question is: have we already passed that obstacle, or is it in our future? Given the conditions to support life existed quite early on in the history of the universe (within millions of years of the big bang), the fact we're 14 billion years in and not heard a note doesn't bode well if you've bet the house on option number 1.

 

Given that we've only been transmitting radio signals for 125 years it's unlikely that any intelligent life form has picked them up, to make our pale blue dot of any interest. And, assuming that faster than light travel is impossible it would likely take thousands of years for them to reach us. So it's unsurprising if it seems that we're all alone. I would have thought we would have picked up some signal from a long dead civilisation by now though.

[Boghead ranter]

38 minutes ago, throbber said:

Your being very selective when talking about my behaviours though, most the time I’m fairly normal. Plus I don’t want to go bothering the health service with any my problems in this current climate: 

Shake your fist at 'im, throbber!

[throbber]

4 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said:

Shake your fist at 'im, throbber!

That will be a perfect way of proving I’m not crazy!

[Shandon Par]

45 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

Do people on here believe that there is nothing out there, and that we are the only inhabited planet in the universe?

Thank you.

Do you believe that there is intelligent life in Monifieth?

 

[Shandon Par]

50 minutes ago, throbber said:

Your being very selective when talking about my behaviours though, most the time I’m fairly normal. Plus I don’t want to go bothering the health service with any my problems in this current climate: 

I know. A less selective post would soon be deep into TL/DR territory.

[BFTD]

35 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

Do people on here believe that there is nothing out there, and that we are the only inhabited planet in the universe?

Thank you.

There's a huge amount of room between steadyfastly insisting that Earth is the only planet in the universe containing advanced lifeforms, and assuming every unexplained anomaly in the sky is proof we've been visited by advanced alien life.

Think it's pretty safe to say that anyone who is determined the aliens are here feels that way out of a desire for it to be true, however. Same as belief in specific deity figures. And that dead football clubs can transubstantiate into new ones.

[throbber]

6 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

I know. A less selective post would soon be deep into TL/DR territory.

No such thing as TL/DR territory when in lockdown.

[19QOS19]

Started watching Cosmos on Disney+. I think given the size of the universe that it would be almost impossible for us to be the only place where life exists.