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Is The Term "Aliens" Derogatory to Extraterrestrials?


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8 hours ago, CaaC (John) said:

@nudge, there has got to be some of these up in space somewhere, surely, I would love to know how they (whoever) thought these characters up, maybe they are Alian's themselves and are on planet earth in disguise? :whistling: xD

Admiral Ackbar

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The origins of Admiral Ackbar and his Mon Calamari species are well known to the scientific community. This is the event that kick-started it:

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17 minutes ago, nudge said:

The origins of Admiral Ackbar and his Mon Calamari species are well known to the scientific community. This is the event that kick-started it:

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Funny though how they make up the characters, funny but good as it does keep your imagination alive about Alians as such, like characters in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine etc

WORF - KLINGON

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50 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:

Funny though how they make up the characters, funny but good as it does keep your imagination alive about Alians as such, like characters in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine etc

WORF - KLINGON

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QUARK - FERANGI

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DAMAR - CARDASSIAN

Damar.jpg

 

The movie Arrival probably has the most interesting aliens for me. Not going to spoil it if you haven't seen the movie, it's a really good one.

Oh and also Andy Weir's latest novel, Project Hail Mary. 

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44 minutes ago, nudge said:

The movie Arrival probably has the most interesting aliens for me. Not going to spoil it if you haven't seen the movie, it's a really good one.

Oh and also Andy Weir's latest novel, Project Hail Mary. 

I take it you mean the new Star Wars movie? I might have a look at that, I haven't watched a Star Wars movie for years. 

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12 minutes ago, nudge said:

No, I mean this movie:

https://imdb.com/title/tt2543164/

Cheers, I can't remember if I have seen that but I checked it out and it's on Netflix and my YouTube channel, I have it on Amazon as rent or buy so I will save out money watching it on either the latter mentioned. :ay:

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Is searching for aliens worth the risk? Absolutely, says UK’s leading astronomer

Even if all we learn is that we’re alone, the search is worth the risk, says Lord Martin Rees, the UK's Astronomer Royal.

“Are we alone?” is probably the question astronomers get asked most often by the general public. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is surely worthwhile, despite the heavy odds against success, because the stakes are so high.

That’s why we should welcome Breakthrough Listen – a 10-year commitment by Russian-Israeli investor Yuri Milner to buy time on some of the world’s best radio telescopes and develop instruments to scan the sky in a more comprehensive and sustained fashion.

But even if the search succeeded (and few of us would bet more than 1 per cent on this), it’s unlikely that the ‘signal’ from aliens would be a decodable message. It would more likely constitute a by-product (or even a malfunction) of some super-complex machine far beyond our comprehension that could trace its lineage back to alien organic beings on a planet whose evolution might have had a head start of a billion years (or required a billion years less) relative to that on Earth.

It makes sense to first focus searches on Earth-like planets orbiting long-lived stars. But science-fiction authors remind us that there are more exotic alternatives. In particular, the habit of referring to ET as an ‘alien civilisation’ may be too restrictive. A ‘civilisation’ connotes a society of individuals: in contrast, ET might be a single, integrated intelligence.

Even if signals were being transmitted, we may not recognise them as artificial because we may not know how to decode them. A radio engineer familiar only with amplitude-modulation might have a hard time decoding modern wireless communications.

Is it risky to search for alian life

I find it hard to share the worries some express about transmitting any signals that would reveal our presence: advanced aliens would know already that we’re here and could be giving us special attention because we’re clearly undergoing a transition from a technological civilisation of flesh-and-blood creatures to a complex near-immortal cyborg or robotic entity.

Perhaps the Galaxy already teems with advanced life and our descendants will ‘plug in’ to a galactic community as ‘junior members’. On the other hand, Earth’s intricate biosphere may be unique and the searches may fail. This would disappoint the searchers. But it would have an upside. Humans could then be less cosmically modest.

The tiny planet we find ourselves on – this pale blue dot floating in space – could be the most important place in the entire cosmos. Either way, our cosmic habitat seems ‘tuned’ to be an abode for life. Even if we are alone in the Universe, we may not be the culmination of this ‘drive’ towards complexity and consciousness.

Finally, there are two familiar maxims that pertain to this quest. First ‘extraordinary claims will require extraordinary evidence’ and second ‘absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence’.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/should-we-look-for-aliens/

 

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So is this what this place has come to…. Offending Aliens now?! How do you know what they identify as?! Such a weird assumption to make, disgusting.

For all you know their parents could be an infinity stone and a microwave. Think before you speak and realise who you could offend.

 

 

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