Posted on 08/02/2025 3:10:46 PM PDT by week 71
“It’s a cookbook” is from an old Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man.” The aliens arrive in a spirit of benevolent generosity and promptly set about to solve all our problems and create an idyllic earth. They also start inviting humans in large numbers to visit their world ....
I don’t know if that was adapted from an earlier short story.
I just re-watched
“Edge of Tomorrow”
a couple of days ago
Came on in the hotel room
a couple of years ago and
then you’re wondering what
is going on
The General was the owner of
the vaccine company from a
Mission: Impossible movie
The girl is the real life wife
of “Jim” from “The Office”
Ted Cassidy is so friendly
Standard fear porn . . . Heh. :-)
Hawking - one of the most over-rated scientists. Ever. Take anything he said with a grain of salt. Alive today, he probably would have spit out 10 more contradictory theories since then.
I read it....was a pretty good series
This is no joke.
We have nuclear weapons. Should we ever acquire FTL travel we become a threat to the galaxy.
Imagine if there was a pack of dogs in a nearby forest that acquired bomb making capabilities. Then they stared travelling outside their forest.
What would any responsible organization do?
Look at mars for a clue.
One bomb to blow off the atmosphere. Later, another bomb to blow off the atmosphere that came out of solution from the soil and water after many years.
No atmosphere, no climate, no life. Problem solved.
Aliens dropping by to wipe us out is way down any list of worries I have.
And it’s reasonable to believe that we’re alone?
The immortal Kro-Bar in Lost Skeleton.
But he loves Reese’s Pieces!
Hawking is right that we should be cautious in this area. There may be no intelligent life out there or there could be plenty. We just don’t know.
“a renowned scientist claimed a ‘hostile’ encounter with alien life could be months away”
or not ...
No bag and size limits and you can remove your catalytic converters.
I’ve heard that people who claim they’ve been almost abducted, but simply saying “Jesus Christ” results in ET leaving them alone.
Maybe. Maybe not.
But I know who I turn to when I need help.
Quite the contrary, what we know is scratch.
At the same time, we know enough.
Absent technology that detect a speck of rock and can make a light-speed traveling machine side-step it, this is a gating factor.
I posted several videos from The John Ankerberg Show
Dr. Hugh Ross claimed that the more people dabbled in the occult, the more they had “close encounters”
Promoting fear sells newspapers.
What is true is that AI is accelerating the speed at which events occur. We are in the outer rings of a singularity.
When we emerge on the other side of the singularity in 5-10 years —the world will be entirely different and we will see things entirely differently.
On a much smaller scale the same thing happened between 1995-2000.
We went in as TV world and came out the other side an internet world.
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