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Do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens, or have any interested related antidokes ?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:06, 202 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Ghosts: no, Aliens: I wouldn't preclude the possibility of some form of life existing outside our solar system
Dokes, on the other hand, I am rabidly opposed to.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:08, Reply)
OMG
I bought a chicken and bacon pasta thing from Tesco yesterday for lunch, just went to eat it and on the front it says

Fat 11% (RDA)
Calories 6% (RDA)

PER TABLESPOON

WTF is in this thing. Tastes good though but I may only eat half so I only have 200% of my RDA's
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:10, Reply)
That really annoys me
who the hell buys something like that thinking "i'll only eat three tablespoons"
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:16, Reply)
Self deluding fat women.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Fair point.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Woh', that's mental.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Lard 1100% RDA

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
I ate one of these yesterday
www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/7/xpi54999117.htm

It's most likely the least healthy thing I eat which isn't from a takeaway, but rather tasty.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:20, Reply)
I bet it wasn't even nice enough to warrent that sort of calories.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Not even close

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Gonz, please consultant the info on the can of whatever energy drink you're currently imbibing.
My can of Relentless informs me that it has 52g of sugar in it.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:26, Reply)
haha all that sugar and you're still a lathargic git

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:27, Reply)
Needs MOAR CAFFEINE.
Then maybe I'll muster some enthusiasm.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
LIES ON THE INTERNET

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)
is this energy drink top trumps?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:32, Reply)
My pepsi has 36.3g but it's a smaller can than Relentless...

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)
Damn you!
Now I am going to have to file this next to "Fag Packet Death Picture Top Trumps" under Stuff I'll Never Actually Bother Doing.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)
bad 'tashe man would win EVERY hand

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:38, Reply)
we had a set of Goldie Looking Chain top trumps at uni
with categories such as Skinning up speed, Draw Tolerance and Safe Factor

the latter could be Safe, Safe as Fuck, or Fucking Safe as Fuck.

it was a hoot...
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
'v', I shall look when I get home.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
I am absolutely certain I've seen two ghosts (on the same occasion)
I shat myself, then thought "fuck 'em, I'm hard as nails I can take them" and started running towards them as if to have a fight. Then I realised I wasn't in fact nails at all, turned round and legged it home as fast as I could.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:12, Reply)

m" and started running towards them as if to have a fight. Then I realised I wasn't in fact nails at all, turned round and legged it home as fast as I could. ir coats. Then I realised ghosts don't get cold and neither of them were wearing coats.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:13, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
The drugs wore off as you charged them?
You are Pacman AICMFP.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:13, Reply)
*gets RSI from clicking*

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Define absolute certainty?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:15, Reply)
He saw someone in the distance
and didn't get close enough to determine whether or not they were real.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
hahaha

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:22, Reply)
Well about as certain as someone on drink and drugs can be.
Which is pretty certain, no?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
No.
Don't be thick.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:27, Reply)
no to ghosts
I can't believe that given the size of the universe that our planet has the only living things in it.

I've seen a UFO. I don't really think it was aliens, but it was flying, an object and I couldn't identify it.
b3ta.com/questions/unexplained/post192227
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:13, Reply)
Really?
You of all people should have identified it
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Haha! again

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:19, Reply)
hahaha
it was dark though

and I was less smug in those days
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I can't wait for some of the responses to this.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Pyschochomp raped a yeti.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)
I have never seen a ghost
but I know a few people who have been given the willies
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:15, Reply)
click and to lunch

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Like your mum

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Yes, I like my mum

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Not as much as we do

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)
Splendid

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)
I do believe in aliens for one simple reason
The idea that the most advanced form of intelligent life in a seemingly infinite universe is one that repeatedly goes to war with itself over something as daft as religion, allowed Robin Williams and Jerry Seinfeld to forge highly successful careers as comedians and reads Heat is unbelievably depressing
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:16, Reply)
But I mean, on earth.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Oh, like RIGHT NOW
Yeah, why not
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Aliens on earth
That ginger model from the M&S adverts looks suspect

See also:
Peter Crouch
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Good point about Crouchy
Jacko's checked out now so he's off the list. Gillian McKeith? The vanguard of an alien invasion force sent to annoy Earth's defences to death?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
Oh.
Then no.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:23, Reply)
^this

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Me and TGB saw this show about how the nazis invented what we see as the UFO and it was stolen of aliens.
It was very convincing but after about an hour and a half, we realised they only had 4 'facts' that got repeated over and over only reworded.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:26, Reply)
I noticed after 4 minutes
But I was paying attention.

Also it was the worst thing ever, after your grasp of the english language
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
I actually agree
But speculating as to who might be an alien is more fun
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:26, Reply)
Sophie Ellis Bextor

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)
*shudder*
I choose to think I was repressing my knowledge of her existence rather than missing this incredibly obvious ET
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)
She nearly went on the list

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:53, Reply)
Her rhomboid face is a dead giveaway.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
and her somniferous almond eyes

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
Don't even know what that means.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Must remember to write it down

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Had that come on random on the drive to work this morning
Brilliant song.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
it is
I've never read the lyrics until just now

and after calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose. He said. "you are the chosen one. The one who will deliver the message. A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not." Me! The chosen one. They chose me!!!! And I didn't even graduate from fuckin' high school!!
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
They are delightfully mental

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
indeed
I absolutely cannot wait for the next album. APC are doing another tour and some new tunes as well apparently.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
Yes
If either groups, or Puscifer, play over here then I'll pull out all the stops to go see them.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
me too.
possibly more than once.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
Aliens don't exist
now please look into this red light.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:20, Reply)
+ on the end of my tentacles

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)

nta sti
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
I reckon they both exist, on account of them being refferenced throughout history by so many people who aren't linked to each other.
That if so many people claim to have seen them, even like in biblical times and all that, who had no links to, say, the inkans in south america, for them both to have seen them when europe and america haven't seen each other.... that there must be some truth to it.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:22, Reply)
People throughout history
who've never met or spoken the same language will say these lines are curved.
unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/optical_illusions_2.png
They're straight.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
just because lots of people say something doesn't mean it is true
to use a an oft-overlooked argument, loads of people like U2, but they are demonstrably shite.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)
My point was our brains are designed to make connections and see causal patterns in things
They're not always there and just as we can be tricked with visual illusions we can be tricked by various other things.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)
Unlike DF.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)
4/10
Too obvious for words. You're like a gay pun yo-yo
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)
But surely we'd have better proof by now if that were the case?
I don't agree with you. There were lots of societies who had no communication with each other who came up with strikingly similar creation myths, among other things. These, like ghosts, come from a human desire to explain things whichever way we can. People miss people when they die, it's comforting to think that death isn't the end. But it is.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Your answer is more succinct and much faster than mine.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
I really hope it is.
For the sake of most b3tans. We're fucked otherwise.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
All that shows
is that primitive people/ancient civilisations the world over have/had similar concerns and beliefs. Most polytheistic religions have, for example, a god of thunder because if you’re a Stone Age man thunder is inexplicable and scary – doesn’t mean thunder gods are real.

One suggested reason why all/most cultures have belief in ghosts or whatever is the same reason people see faces in clouds etc: the human brain is hard-wired to create human forms where they don’t actually exist as a hangover from primitive self-defence fears.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
Ooo! isn't you clever.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)
I'm trying to impress Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou.
I'm hoping I can convince her to come round my flat to see compelling evidence of pagan fertility rituals aka doing her repeatedly up the gary, but in a nice way.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)
this is true
my mate has a painting and one day I noticed that a part of it looked like a very realistically painted baby's face staring out of it.

Couldn't stop seeing it after that. Fortunately he took it down when they redecorated.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)
I believe I can fly.
Does that count?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
You are R Kelly AICMFP

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:26, Reply)
PAEDO.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:27, Reply)
I am absolutely appalled by this

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:27, Reply)
ORVILLE!
AICMFP.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
I have had some sort of encounter with something, for want of a better word, supernatural.
When I was thirteen or so my family and I were staying in a farmhouse close to the Welsh border. I was up in my bedroom listening to music and I got the strong feeling that I wasn't alone. Nothing else was in the room, so far as I can see, but I started feeling progressivly more and more disconcerted. I won't say I saw a ghost, as that isn't strictly accurate. I had the strong impression that something was in the room with me. This was in the middle of a summer's day, so it wasn't sleep apnoeia or any of the other usual sleep-related explanations.

After that, I wouldn't sleep in that room any more. A couple of days later, I found out that my parents had also felt that something was wrong in the house. Nothing they could specifically put their finger on, they didn't see anything either but my stepdad felt sufficiently threatened that he would leave their bedroom light on at night.

It got that bad that my parents cut the holiday short. The visitor's book was full of people commenting on the ghost in the house.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)
I stayed there before you did
and produced such a repulsive fart that it hung around and made people uncomfortable for years to come.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:27, Reply)
While you are a total animal
it is nice to know that it wasn't Geronimo or Houdini or someone, but your arse.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)
Whilst it pains me to quote Harry Hill,
that would be the Power of Suggestion right there.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Except we didn't read the visitors book until we were actually leaving.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
A clarification.
I dont' actually believe in ghosts. Logically, I find them highly improbable. However, this did happen.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:39, Reply)
Logically, Darth having a girlfriend is highly improbable
Which just goes to prove statistics are a load of shit
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:41, Reply)
This is true
I'm a walking - OK, mincing - talking disprover of statistical likelihood
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:46, Reply)
There's a simple scientific explanation for this:
you are gay.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:50, Reply)
Does homosexuality lead to a higher instance of supernatural encounters?
If it weren't such a potentially devastating loss to the gene pool, I might consider re-thinking my life style.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:53, Reply)
I heard
if you go wandering around Hampstead Heath in the middle of the night you get a horrifying feeling that you're not alone, and you can hear all this tortured moaning coming from the bushes. And even in daylight you can see little puddles of ecotplasm everywhere.

It's eerie to say the least.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
I thought the moaning was Bill Oddie
complaining about not being taken seriously, and shaking off his Goodie image.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Yeah and Ron Davies 'looking for badgers'

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
They should get that Yvette Fielding and Derek Acorah to look into it

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
They should get you and Jimmy Somerville to look into it.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)
I ain't afraid of no goatse.
oh...wait...
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)
POTD
Hands down
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:35, Reply)
I spent most of my youth looking out of my window at night and waiting for aliens to come and whisk me away.
Feckers never turned up. Even aliens don't want me.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)
if I were an alien I'd totally probe you

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)
Woo!
And most definitely yay.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)
they only like to probe people who aren't willing
which is why they haven't taken Darth either
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)
7/10
Excellent invention
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:32, Reply)
Apparently our planes in Libya are carrying ASRAAM missiles.
I imagine Darth's never been more jealous of Gadaffi.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)
That is brilliant
Have a well-deserved 8/10 and a click. The composition of the jibe is especially impressive
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:35, Reply)
What's the equivalent of cottaging in Libya?
Whatever it is, it's bound to involve a cruise missile.

Probably wouldn't even touch the sides.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:38, Reply)


(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)
Fanku badger : )

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:32, Reply)
*gropes*

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)
man this is cute
*steals*
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)
For just £10.99 a month...
You can join my insurance scheme. I can 100% guarantee your safety when the alien invasion happens. And rest assured those doubting Thomas' among you....it will happen. That's £10.99. Don't delay!!
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)
If I don't get abducted in the first year will my premium go down next year?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:37, Reply)
I'm sure we can work something out.
Also if you are hugely over weight we reduce the premiums due to the likelihood of the tractor beams not being able to get you into the spaceship.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:40, Reply)
I shall eat the rest of my ridiculous fatty pasta then

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Indeed.
And perhaps consider another for dessert....and it's 11 grams of fat per tablespoon? Are they legally allowed to call it food still?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:45, Reply)
If only internetlawyerman were here

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
I was once staying
at my Uncle Harold’s place in the London suburbs. I was chatting to the neighbour over the fence one afternoon and the bloke was adamant that my uncle’s place was haunted. One night I was asleep and woke up suddenly to hear this weird squeaking noise…almost like shopping trolley wheels or something.

I was shit-scared but I opened my eyes and when I did I swear on my mum's life I could see a ghostly figure of a court jester on roller-skates.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:40, Reply)
I'm calling bullshit
on account of it implies you were nice to this neighbour
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:43, Reply)
I'm calling Rentaghost

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I'd say there are aliens. I'm not sure about ghosts.
Only encounter I've ever had was after my cousin died and I had a dream about him.
In my dream he gave me a massive hug and I could actually feel it, not dream feel it. I woke up crying.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:45, Reply)
I once had a dream all my dog's fur fell out
so my mum had to knit him a little jumper. Also teenage mutant teenage turtles were involved
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:46, Reply)
I had a dream last week that I had a Japanese baby. And she had a rash.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Was it radiation poisoning?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:49, Reply)
AL. Don't go saying nasty things like that and making me think it's BGB.
You're a horrible person.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:51, Reply)
BGB was thinking it
that's the only reason it popped into my head. We're psychically linked.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I wish it was physically.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
irl lol

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
I bet you are sitting on a bit of Al's distended stomach now
It flows
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
I love a bit of a belly on lads. Something to stroke while I'm watching TV ; )

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
a bit!

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:06, Reply)
or to rest your head on.
s'very comfy.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:06, Reply)
We got bosoms to rest on and so guys should have a belly.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:07, Reply)
exactly this.
I love resting my head on a comfy tummy and falling asleep while watching telly.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)
I think most guys would find an excuse for farting when you do this.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Yes but they'd only do it the once.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
As soon as you lot fall asleep
we are squeezing them out as often as possible. You probably got woken up by the giggling
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
This^
Dutch oven with a cushion
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
Not as scary as the 'Polish Oven'
where you release a fatally-poisonous gas in the the shower.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Depends on my farts really

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
Are you deliberatley courting a "while you're down there, luv"?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)
Risking a poke in the eye really

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
not sure about ghosts,
but definitely believe in aliens. To believe that we are on the only planet capable of supporting life is just arrogant.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:00, Reply)
Life, sure, but intelligent life, less sure.
Intelligent life capable of space travel that has visited earth, even less sure, personally.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
I'd be happy to see any alien lifeform.
Even if it was just protazoa. It would give me such a buzz.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
I was learning about protists and protozoa today in biology.
man that was cool.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)
I envy your brains : )

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)

envy want to eat your
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
She's a cute zombie
but I will be locking my door when I stay at hers.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
she'll bash your (back) door in

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
She'll have to get through my wife, who, as you keep telling me, is much better than me.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
She really is
Much, much better than you.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
heh, thought it was BGB when I replied
it still stands though.

thinking on it, why would she reply to a post about herself calling herself a cute zombie?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
Because you're a massive thicky spazmo

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
about half the time I reckon

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
There is no lock on your door.
Bwahahahahah!
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I'm going to bring a tailors dummy to act as a decoy.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)

tailors dummy life size Pillsbury dough-boy
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I'll be able to tell the difference.
The dummy won't be giggling.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)

giggling wobbling
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)
There is a school of thought that any visitors to this planet
would be so far in advance of us that we would be to them, as insects are to us. We should therefore stop sending maps out showing our location, and wait until we can equal or better the technology than prospective visitors, go to their planet, and stomp on them.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
Life isn't sure,
It's just likely.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
very likely

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
But not necessarily very close

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
very true
but then, not much is really.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
very very likely

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
No very unlikely.
But on a large enough scale.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
that makes it likely in my book

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Me likey

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Yes. He's being pedantic
on a planetary scale it's very unlikely to happen. But if you have a near infinite number of planets then that become more likely on a universal scale.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Do you rip out all the pages containing context fron your book?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
no
but I can allow my mind to accept different contexts.

On a universal scale it is likely that there is other life. That has nothing to do with how much or where.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Thing is, if it's more than a few light years from us, the chances of us ever coming into contact with them
quickly become infinitesimally small.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
That is not what's being discussed here, though.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I know that Monty, that's why in this post:
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1132944

I said that the chances of life existing are very high on a universal scale.

But the chances of us meeting any other life, is very, very, very, very, very, very, actually lets just go with my first comment and say infinitesimally small.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
male view: who cares, unless they're hot?
female view: who cares, unless they're hotter than i am?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:52, Reply)
person with a brain view:
interesting stuff is interesting
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)
different definitions of interesting though, v
semantics over the difference between something being likely and something being very unlikely but if you add all those unlikely little pieces together it might then make it likely...

this is the kind of shit i spend my days arguing about. it is not interesting enough to be on here, surely.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
I find a lot of things interesting

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Rachelswipe's view: Who cares, unless their richer than me?

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)
Her spelling is terrible.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:55, Reply)
I know
you'd think that given that she'd already edited that comment once, she would have noticed the other terrible error.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Their their, Al, it'll be OK.

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Al's getting hammered tomorrow night.
Hammered.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)
I'm going to drink bottles of beer.
I can keep drinking for a lot longer if I stick to bottles of beer.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
i love this
and hello you
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
CLENDRIX!
Hi!
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Hello!
I have found a posh butcher's shop in Clapham for our Saturday morning trip.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
I like this
I shall hopefully not be too hungover from the reveling and awesomeness of the night before.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:02, Reply)
I can leave you at home if you are ill :)

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:03, Reply)
I'm sure I'll be fine
I rarely suffer from hangovers.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:04, Reply)
EVERYBODY is
i earn a PITTANCE
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)
I'm not denying that
if films are anything to go by then it'd be bad anyway.

speaking of which, I watched Battle: Los Angeles.

It was shit.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Oh really?
I was hoping for good things from that.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
me too
but it was dull, the camera work was bad, the script was poor, the acting weak, and it may as well not have been aliens invading.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Oh well, I won't bother seeing it at the pictures
I'll just steal it when it comes out on DVD.
(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
I would have been pissed if I'd paid to see it

(, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)

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