It's happening! NASA starts preparing public to accept DISCOVERY OF ALIENS!!!

[shtabe]

this is y u r red

what a mindfuk cliffs on top are

[JamesA1990]

will be so pissed off if the kid who beat me in running races was actually an alien all this time

[Hercegovac8]

if they are even 1% more intelligent than us, they would probably view us as we view chimps.

how would they view a world that doesn't even have a single governing body? we as a species constantly are fighting one another, some groups hoard resources while others are barely subsisting. at this point, meeting an extraterrestrial species would be an embarrassment.

Oh lawd again with this nonsense...

U guys are confused about that Niel Degrase tyson speech, he never said there is a 1% difference in intelligence, but rather a 1% difference in DNA

A 1% difference in intelligence isn't even tha big of a deal, difference between the average person and their doctor is larger than 1%

[jmonty]

Lol no, guise if u don't know wtf ur talking about pls just stop

Humans and apes' DNA differs by 1%, not the intelligence lmao

Just in ur household, u can probably find the intelligence differing by more than 1% lol, just the difference of 10 or so iq (depending on the actual iq) is a 1% swing in intelligence.

For the record humans and bananas share about 50% of the same dna

[jmonty]

Oh lawd again with this nonsense...

U guys are confused about that Niel Degrase tyson speech, he never said there is a 1% difference in intelligence, but rather a 1% difference in DNA

A 1% difference in intelligence isn't even tha big of a deal, difference between the average person and their doctor is larger than 1%

i would have sworn he said intelligence. still, people are barely more evolved than chimps. the point stands, an alien species that was slightly more evolved could understandably view humanity as simply another animal.

[Penile_Dementia]

Also, humans are like 1% more intelligent than apes. If aliens are even 1% more intelligent than us, then we'd better pepper our angus

We would be in big trouble with any comparably intelligent being that had mastered interstellar travel, but...

No. Just... no.

[Groce]

in.

[Penile_Dementia]

i would have sworn he said intelligence. still, people are barely more evolved than chimps. the point stands, an alien species that was slightly more evolved could understandably view humanity as simply another animal.

Even aliens who were a bit dumber than humans, if they had a sufficiently advanced spacefaring civilisation, could view humanity as vastly inferior.

[SirFapsAIot]

When I read "tentacles" I was like:

[Arkileon]

Even aliens who were a bit dumber than humans, if they had a sufficiently advanced spacefaring civilisation, could view humanity as vastly inferior.

But could see as interesting things to keep in their households and zoos

[Hercegovac8]

i would have sworn he said intelligence. still, people are barely more evolved than chimps. the point stands, an alien species that was slightly more evolved could understandably view humanity as simply another animal.

I wouldn't call 100s of thousands of years barely lol

Do u know how far back in time we'd have to go to see when human lived and acted like monkeys (inb4 snarky jokes)? Over 2 million years ago

I don't understand why ppl are always so quick to call out humans for being barbaric and unevolved. In the long history of earth and our solar system, humans are by faaar the most evolved species, most self aware, and most intelligent species

[cashinout]

inb4

[lefteris7]

get your mind blown, Watch that video. The guy speaking, got killed shortly after supposedly for knowing too much. There is his death photo if you google it.

http://tiny.cc/yu3omx


Couldnt post the original youtube video, because the link has the word "****" in it.

[MintTea]

Apes are pretty retarded. Dolphins are much more intelligent than them, and even then comparing dolphins to humans is like comparing plankton and dogs.

[jmonty]

I wouldn't call 100s of thousands of years barely lol

Do u know how far back in time we'd have to go to see when human lived and acted like monkeys (inb4 snarky jokes)? Over 2 million years ago

I don't understand why ppl are always so quick to call out humans for being barbaric and unevolved. In the long history of earth and our solar system, humans are by faaar the most evolved species, most self aware, and most intelligent species

In the great scheme of things that's barely any time.

Humans really are disgusting if you think about it. We kill each other on massive scale, waste limited resources, pollute our only habitable planet, destroy species. We aren't united as a species for the common good. Ignorance is rampant (religion). Etc. It's kind of depressing.

[Palibrah]

I wouldn't call 100s of thousands of years barely lol

Do u know how far back in time we'd have to go to see when human lived and acted like monkeys (inb4 snarky jokes)? Over 2 million years ago

[Nomad4Glory]

CLIFFS:
-Vatican scientist/priest says aliens with tentacles have souls: Consolmagno has publicly stated his belief that "any entity -- no matter how many tentacles it has -- has a soul," and he's suggested that he would be happy to baptize any ETs, as long as they requested it.

I aware you, misc.

In Catholic theology, which draws its philosophical roots from the merging of Greek thought with the Jewish tradition, the "soul" is simply the organizing principle of a living thing - i.e., the form that organizes the matter into such-and-such a type of thing, this thing as opposed to that thing. Plants and animals have souls, but not on the same level as higher beings.

The human soul is unique because it is a rational soul, meaning it is capable of reason. Hence, the classical definition of man is "rational animal." Therefore, if an alien life-form is ever encountered that proves to be rational, they would technically also be considered man (according to their philosophical species) even though their biological species would obviously not be homo sapiens. So what that priest says totally makes sense.

The rational soul is considered immortal because it is capable of grasping and understanding universal truths, which are themselves timeless and immortal. This confers an immutable knowledge upon the soul. Given this, it stands to reason that the soul has some capacity to receive immutable knowledge. The reason is that something lesser cannot receive something beyond its capacity, hence there is a principle of immutability inherent in the rational soul that is actualized (at least in part) by the knowledge of universals it attains. Therefore, something of the rational soul remains beyond the corruption of the body on account of this principle - the same cannot be said of plants and lesser animals, even though this does not definitively mean that they cannot be.

I'm totally stoked for alien life. Bring it on. Doesn't change a thing, just makes the universe more exciting on top of being hella interesting. I, for one, look forward to the Klingon Football League.

Dual M.A. crew, checking in.

[KyBrah32]

[Hercegovac8]

I know where ur going, and no that's not what I was trying to say with it. I'm just trying to put things in perspective, and yes I know that humans didn't evolve from apes, but rather a cousin of both, with one line making humans and the other apes

I've taken plenty of genetic and anthropology classes, as well as reading up on Wikipedia and watching tons of videos

I'm not an expert, but I do know what I'm talking about, so pls go with ur condescending bullshyt

[BusterMudd]

Just in ur household, u can probably find the intelligence differing by more than 1%

...especially if you live in a dorm.

[Ryan94LOZ]

Proudmanlet will you meet with me on the intergalactic mothership?

[Palibrah]

I've taken plenty of genetic and anthropology classes, as well as reading up on Wikipedia and watching tons of videos

Sure you have. That's why you think humans have been around for 2 million years. Thanks for enlightening the scientific world on these new findings, as the misc always does.

[insertionbrah]

get your mind blown, Watch that video. The guy speaking, got killed shortly after supposedly for knowing too much. There is his death photo if you google it.

http://tiny.cc/yu3omx


Couldnt post the original youtube video, because the link has the word "****" in it.

why does his left hand miss fingers?

[keithsweatshirt]

we already discovered aliens. you guys saw hope solos nudes. that chit was intergalactic poosey

[Tsudo]

-Vatican scientist/priest says aliens with tentacles have souls: Consolmagno has publicly stated his belief that "any entity -- no matter how many tentacles it has -- has a soul," and he's suggested that he would be happy to baptize any ETs, as long as they requested it.

First thing I thought was this was a jab...

[Hercegovac8]

Sure you have. That's why you think humans have been around for 2 million years. Thanks for enlightening the scientific world on these new findings, as the misc always does.

I know that's why I said in my last post that I'm tryig to put things into perspective, and that's why I said 2 million years ago humans acted like monkey, because they were more or less monkeys

2.3 million years ago the homo genus sprouted, which we all descend from, and that's the genus we are all a part of to this day

[Procta]

why you assume tentacles, racist

[Boerdeur]

I hope aliens discover the misc

"lol @ earthlings (gtfih)"
"just got a new warp engine, AMA"

"just found my 10/10 HBB (noprobe beware) (HUGE TENTTIES)"

[hutch1999]

[AYJAX]

Apes are pretty retarded. Dolphins are much more intelligent than them, and even then comparing dolphins to humans is like comparing plankton and dogs.

crows are very very cunning

I seen with my OWN eyes a group of crows on a paddock. they are all there and suddenly all of them except one fly 10 meteres in the air, then quickly fly down and kill the 1 crow