Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

I'd join you. like stand next to them and shit. not even talk. just randomly walk over and stand next to the guy under the roof.

 

Mi scusi

 

And I'll stand BEHIND that same guy

 

we should totally get a big group together, pick out the person farthest away from every other person, and all cluster around that person like he's the middle guy in a crowded elevator.

 

exactly that.

 

To put this is in perspective, one of the largest known stars, VY canis majoris diameter is about same as Mars's orbit. Canis majoris is 1420 Solar radii. Largest know is UY Scuti with 1708 Solar radii.
Feeling really meaningful today? That's cute...

 

Quite the Schwarzschild radius. Neutron stars are cool in that they have such gravity that you can see a little bit into the rear side as the light emanating from the hidden side of the sphere is curved by it's gravity.

 

In California, US there is a bill proposing that porn actors (and actresses) must wear protective goggles if there is a chance that they might get .. fluids.. to their eyes and face. This is to fight against poor hygiene.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ve-to-wear-protection-eye-protection-that-is/

 

What are some theories on why we haven't been visited by aliens yet?
James Earl Adams III, Bachelor of Science in biology, patho... (more)




Here is a near exhaustive list of the possibilities. The reality of the situation may be any one or any combination of these.

Aliens do not exist

"Preposterous!" You object, "There are innumerable planets, and so many billions of years have passed. The odds that life has had more than one genesis are so large -- you might even say astronomically large."

Yes, but if there is only a finite number of planets then the probability of life having a second genesis will still be less than 1.0. Furthermore, modern biochemistry hasn't even the dumbest clue how hard it is for life to get started or how hard it is for it to survive once it has. So if we assume that it is astronomically unlikely for life to begin or to survive, this balances out the astronomically large number of opportunities for it to have.

We may be the only ones here.


Aliens exist but tend to not be very advanced


There is the notion of the Great Filter. Perhaps life is abundant but rarely advances beyond a certain stage. This could be due to that stage being particularly hard to evolve beyond or due to the likelihood of a mass extinction happening in the time it would take to evolve beyond that stage.

Perhaps it's very rare to evolve beyond unicellular life or to develop much intelligence or to sustain a space faring society. If getting beyond these stages was not hard enough, there are many existential threats that could wipe life out at any stage of development: geothermal cataclysms, celestial impact, green house effects, star death, gamma ray bursts, nuclear or biological warfare.


Aliens exist but have not found us


Space is very large, so maybe the aliens that exist have not had enough time to see us. Our radio waves have traversed a couple hundred light years. It will be another 120,000 years before they have reached all of the milky way -- nevermind other galaxies. So unless aliens are either very near to us or using telescopes so powerful that they can see early hominids in detail, they will have no way to know of our existence.


Aliens exist, have found us but can't quickly reach us

Perhaps they are very near to us and have seen evidence of our existence, but have found faster-than-light travel to be an intractable problem. If this is the case, it would still take them hundreds of years to get to us depending on how far they are and how long their embarkation was after our first broadcast. If they are very near to us in technological advancement, they may not even have the means of getting here.


Aliens exist, know of us, can get to us but do not care to

There are many reasons why this might be the case. Their culture, politics or behavioral dispositions may inform this decision, but it's most likely that they are so far beyond us technologically as to leave little incentive for them to bother with us as we have nothing to offer them. People frequently underestimate how high the technological ceiling sits. See my answer and commentary on this possibility.

Aliens are all around us


Ants are no strangers to our kitchen counters; they may know the layout and nuances better than we do. However, they probably don't attribute the stoneware to the design of higher agents such as ourselves. Like the eclipses we cast and our smelly earthquakes, they may not be able to distinguish the workings of man from nature itself.

So mayn't we be similarly blind? Who's to say that we could recognize alien intelligence and technology if we saw it? At the very least, their probes may have drifted unnoticed under our noses. At the very most, their workings may be infused into our very reality -- if they are especially advanced.



http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-...ted-by-aliens-yet/answer/James-Earl-Adams-III

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...grow-MARIJUANA-middle-Kazakhstan-capital.html

Pot plants: Officials investigating how flower beds were used to grow MARIJUANA in the middle of the Kazakhstan capital

 

"Dark Planet Saga - Mine the Moon"


https://www.artstation.com/artist/mleth

 

Old but still great ^^

 

Everyone seen it but I only saw it today... and laughed a lot.

 

He inspires me... Everyday... Of my life.

 

I know right? One day I want to be like him, until then I'm working hard to get there.

 

OMG! I have been deprived of these. Binge watching now.