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Scholar8200:Just as you have forgotten your own history, roots and heritage as an African who left his own heritage to embrace that of the Jews. Its amazing how you are concerned of America forgetting their heritage and not about you forgetting yours.. By the way Native Americans had their own religion, Columbus massacred them to establish the new colony!!! |
taurus25:You have very cogent points brother!!! 1. Is very likely- take earth for example, Only 1 out of all intelligent species on earth got to the stage of "technological intelligence" .. this shows maybe "technological intelligence" is quite rare and has slim chance of emerging in the universe. 2. very correct!!! |
Ayomikun37:Humans are the number 1 threat to this planet!!! Nature is always chaotic and dangerous to itself, nature thrives on annihilating of old values for newer ones to emerge. Though there are many factors abound in nature that are detrimental to survival of living organisms i'd say humans are natures number 1 tool in achieving that ... We are nature's most effective tool in killing ourselves and other organisms!!! |
I am 100% bio and i would love to stay that way. The limits of my abilities as a biological organism makes it all the more worth while and enjoyable. In the case of cybernetic i'd say even though it will improve human life a bit there is no doubt it will be the beginning of an end. We will be fully integrated into a virtual world and less or no relationship with the natural world. And if this is so, are we still Natural entities or have we by ourselves turned our own being into artificial machines in an artificial virtual reality? I say "NO" to that i'd rather remain traditional, fully human and 100% bio. And enjoy the abilities that comes with being an organic entity and tinker and fantasize over my limits .. That's the fun ![]() This said, i'd also like to point out that the "smartphone" era is also turning the 21st century humans into miniature cyborgs fully dedicated to the digital world of their phones. they'd rather watch pictures of nature on their smartphone than drop it go outside and see nature first hand. We should always know the limits of our advancement!!! Nuclear technology i see as one of the most expensive mistakes humanity ever made in my own opinion. even though it is of high importance and an enormous contributor to human development. Through it mankind derived it's greatest threat yet, that the whole earth could be annihilated by the push of some few buttons, that reality to me is frightening and a reminder that mankind does not know when to stop. We by ourselves will become our own undoing and i am inclined to think this cyborg tech will also have enormous negative threat on our continuous existence!!! |
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samsard:If such stars are close to the earth as the sun, you wouldn't live to look at it.. That's how bright they are !!! |
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The Arab countries that are extremely religious are not represented in the statistics .. Well while there are many factors that plays roles to the economic down turns of countries it cannot be blamed sorely on religion neither is religion innocent but one of the numerous causes. -One thing that baffles me is Religions claims moral superiority than irreligious state at the same a look at the most religious countries send shivers down the spine. Violence, corruption, chauvinism and hypocritic double standards.. An official goes everyday to bow to God in the mosque while wearing a self induced deceptive state of "holy i am" comes out to embezzle public funds. The other blows down the heaven in Church shaking the heavens with fervent praises goes back to embezzle public funds. All the while claiming superior moral basis driven by "God" If you understand how most religious countries are the most corrupt and in the cse of Africa, violence and poverty bound you'll learn that Human morality is basically independent of any religious affiliation. There are good and bad people irrespective of their religion or non-religious ideologies. -Misplaced priority and disturbing superstitions also plays key roles in the ways religions contribute to economic down fall of a nation or community. Go to every village in Nigeria, no matter how poor this communities might be you must see a magnificent Church or mosque building worth millions if not billions of Naira. This fund is contributed by the poor masses living in these vicinities most unable to feed 3times daily. Yet thus Churches built off the sweat of the poor is also used to rob them of the little they have every sunday no wonder the most lucrative business these days are Religious enterprises. If these billions, millions contributed by these poor masses are used for community projects that can actually be of help and of humongous positive effect to these communities like -Good hospitals -Water -Roads -Schools -Housing You will notice most communities wouldn't be dependent on incompetent failed African leaders to develop themselves and their communities. If God actually care for the well being of the masses he wouldn't mind if the money for magnificent mosque/church edifies are channelled towards projects that are of basic necessity to these masses. If "God" wants a house before the well being of the masses then there is no need wasting "your" time over what doesn't care about your well being. Africans should stop falling preys to religious con-men who get rich from the contribution of the poor, gather funds from the meager contributions of the poor to buy private jets and build schools the poor cannot even afford. Fela Kuti once sang : I wake many village and we are in Africa, Pastor's house na im deh fine pass, my people them deh stay for poor surroundings. Pastors dress na im deh clean pass e hard for my people for them to buy soap.. Really it is the Opiate of the poor and a tool of the rich |
They are fighting over who got the better version of Yahweh!!! |
OneManLegion:Where is lalasticlala and mynd44 .. Help us here bosses .. we need more input. |
Liljeez:But if you can get two powerful magnifying glasses you can make a makeshift Galilean telescope you can at least manage to gaze at the night sky |
OneManLegion:-There is no shame in Ignorance. we only need consistency in learning. What the ancient men knew about the universe is but a Child's knowledge to what we know now. Aristotle thought the reason why objects in motion slow down and eventually stopped is because they get tired ... Imagine that ![]() Back then it was their highest level of scientific and logical deduction and was widely accepted But now we know better. So with consistent study and time the intellectual evolution of man will always take us higher. Coming generations will have more answers than we do now!!! |
25..earth as seen from the international space station
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Liljeez:I am not even sure stores knows the difference between Binoculars and telescopes in Nigeria. I once tried "Konga" and i saw binoculars labelled as telescopes. It's a pity .. I am not sure where one can get a good telescope here in Nigeria!!! |
OneManLegion:Yes i understand but i am only suggesting maybe these "Gods" are ignoring us because they see us as we see ants in terms of intellect therefore there is no need for them to establish contact because there isn't anything to say. -there is nothing we can teach them just like we think there is no miniscule knowledge about the universe the small ants we are superior to in intellect can teach us and if we try to teach them Physics, will they understand? So why bother. Maybe that's the way they see us.. So even they might have mastered interstellar travel, they still do not see need to establish any communication with young simpletons like us. We are just trying to provide a rational answer to the paradox. ![]() Do you know about the Dyson Sphere?A little bit ... |
I hope you are not trying to shagg another man's wife with the usual "sister and "brother" in Christ mumbo jumbo ![]() My wife is allowed a maximum of three male friends The father, the son and the Holy spirit, I don't buy that best friend shiit ![]() even though i don't trust the Holy spirit too, you know like what happened to Mary.. Who will ever trust the dude with his wife ![]() |
OneManLegion:Yes we should all keep an Open mind and be accommodating to new ideas.. Imagine in this planet every life on earth share at least few percentages of DNA similarities and these differences in these DNA calibrations give rise to distinct characteristics in these organisms. Our closest relatives in this planets being the great apes Chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas which we share up to 98%DNA similarities with. Neil Degress Tyson said Just 2% difference and watch how different we are from these other primates. Just 2% difference and we reached a level of technological advancement, we reaches a point our intelligence can be classified one of rare magnitude on earth (technological intelligence). Owing to the fact that just one species out of millions in this planet reached that point of technological intelligence. Now imagine since we are 2% ahead of Chimpanzees and our intellect with theirs cannot be compared, the difference in intellect is so enormous that 2% becomes a whole lot. Now imagine if there are species 2% ahead of us just like we are ahead of the chimps. Our intellect would be a Child's play for them. Our greatest Physics problem would be "Home work" for their Primary school Pupils. We would simply be simpletons compared to them. And they would grasp the universe way better than we ever can hope to. Most ancient religions of which these new ones are built are based on this bed rock of beings of far superior intelligence (Though i don't buy that theory) So "Yes" it is open that there MIGHT be far more intelligent species than us out there that could have figured the universe out more than we have but surely their knowledge still would not be infinite and this also leaves more problems. -Questions will also remain unanswered still but less ![]() Like the Fermi paradox asked "Where is everybody?" Neil Degress Tyson suggests maybe they are "ignoring us" Just as we see ants and ignore them, knowing there is nothing they can teach us because we believe we know better, we are higher so we don't go bother establishing communication with them cus they wouldn't understand either way. Maybe these super-intelligent beings are ignoring us because we are to them in intellect what ants are to us therefore there is no need to establish communication.. Hence "where is everybody?" might have been because "Everybody is ignoring those they dim lesser than they are" ![]() |
Bro OneManLegion Please you posted the second post of the OP twice.. remove one!! Boss lalasticlala and mynd44 we need more people to say something over this ...Please homepage we implore thee |
OneManLegion:There are unanswered questions "Yes" and that gap left by our ignorance is not meant to be filled by an assumption that feels good. Our intellectual progress should be measured by the sincerity of our question and the depth of our answers and our tendencies to agree with what is true rather than what feels good. If the unanswered questions of the universe is filled up with extra-terrestrial being somewhere in another plain (Universe or anything) you may called them "Gods" .. This still doesn't answer the questions you pointed out. -What then caused that plain in which this civilization evolved from -what still was before everything was. Still no answer because these extra-terrestrial beings still doesn't add up the answer. If you assert a race of eternal extra-terrestrial beings that is highly improbable and irrational and is murdered by the infinity paradox. and secondly how can such complexly functional intelligent beings just out of no where be there without having to be already caused by something else but the functional complexity of the universe is being used to stick a designer to it's tag. That to me is a philosophy of Ignorance if i am to use the words of my Role Model Neil DEGRESS Tyson. Science is a philosophy of discovery. That we do not know something or may not know something at all still doesn't call for it to be filled by assumptions that still doesn't answer the question but rather postpones it. Don't you see that such invocation of superstition to fill the void still does not fill it.. -What was before everything? and if you say "Gods" highly intelligent species of conscious beings.. -How exactly? remember the question was "everything" and "god" is something therefore part of "everything" Why not Energy in the simplest most fundamental form if "something" should be excluded from "everything" as regards the question.. **That'd be far more logical** If "everything" is removed then you can also come to that point in the infinite loop where "God" needs to come out from "nothing" or "no where" fully developed and complexly functional. I'd rather go with the simplest most fundamental level of energy frequency that went through long long long gradual and consistent development to get to a more complex point .. Just like "nature" has always shown to be a development from simpler values to more complex values and not a sudden emergence of a perfect already functional complex system. On a last note Belief is not same as knowledge or certainty and so this belief in God(s) still will have no place in human scientific enquiry neither does it sum up to knowledge because scientific method is about enquiry and discovery not belief. it is simply what it is "belief" If we employed belief in place of knowledge then what is the need for study in the first place since we could simply fill every gap of ignorance with any assumption that comes to mind and believe it. Let us throw away the idea of belief and try to find things out. That we do not have all the answers is not a pocket to be filled by assumptions, that mankind still has not answered questions that needs to be answered is not an avenue to assume up Gods. Or you will see this your "God" hypothesis will always be a receding factor in the face of scientific advancement. Ptolemy was an incredibly intelligent fellow but when faced with the depth of the celestial motion he invoked the work of Zeus (God). Ptolemy has reached the limit of his knowledge, the limits of where his answers runs so just like you have done now, he invoked Intelligent design in the person of God (zeus) Newton went further than Ptolemy, developed better maths in explaining motion but yet reached a climax of his knowledge, a curtain of ignorance, the limit of his knowledge h invoked intelligent design. Leplace went further ahead of Newton and Ptolemy in celestial motions, he went pass the limits of their knowledge and that "gap" newton and Ptolemy filled with "God" replace figured it out and threw the "god" of Ptolemy and Newton out of the equation. When asked "where God fitted in his work of motion mechanics" he only answered "I have no need of that Hypothesis" because he figured it out and didnt filled up the "gap" left by "ignorance" with that assumption of "god did it" just like Newton and Ptolemy did. You see "God" was not an answer, only a placeholder for ignorance Newton and Ptolemy employed. Leplace didn't need "God" anymore because he figured it out so that "God" assumption was discarded by him. So areas of scientific ignorance is not to be filled by assumptions, if only you will place "God" at only a place shielded by scientific ignorance then as scientific advancement has always displaced that "god" factor, it will keep receding with advancement of discoveries. Remember also invoking a "God" to explain the universe, still doesn't answer the question if that "God" must not need another to create it. It doesn't answer the question, it compounds it and produces unnecessary twists that are only rooted in assumptions. So the questions remains "OPEN" and do not require a belief in God ... If you propose "God" as a possible hypothesis among countless others then fine that's ok but you also will remember nobody goes about accepting a hypothesis that has not being proven. Hence the unbelief in the God hypothesis lets figure things out rather than believing in assumptions. Cc. 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This is quite an interesting i must say, one that almost makes one speechless considering the enormous variable we are dealing with here. Almost inclines me to lean towards the last quote "The silence of the night sky is golden" when it comes to Fermi's paradox. But i am one of those that insist something should be known if it ever can, at least we cab try.. Mankind will never be at ease without solving the question "Are we alone?" and secondarily "Are we the only species up to the level of technological intelligence" |
24. First picture of earth ever taken from the moon..
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..Eheeee another Jesus joins the list of Gods.. ![]() Anyway that dude obviously is a young atheist |
sonOfLucifer:Case closed, Dusted and finished!!! ![]() |
There are many reasons peope do evil and money is one of the greatest of this reason!!! |
23. Earth, Jupiter and venus in Martian sky.. Picture taken by opportunity rover from inside martian surface. These planets are also visible in the earth's night sky, you probably mistake them as stars (That explains why most of our night wishes don't come true, we probably were just wishing on planets and not stars )Ok to identify a planet in the night sky, look for a light dot in a dark night that is a bit like an average star but blurry and look hard enough to make sure it's not twinkling .. for a better view, a Gelilean telescope is recommended.... Have fun with Astronomy ![]()
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22. even the universe shows love too.. a hubble image of the "Heart nebula"
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21. A dead star the death of massive stars are the most violent explosions known to man, leaves a sad but beautiful enduring view and all the elements produced during their life time scattered in space making it possible for planets like earth to have them (helium, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, iron) remarkably humans are predominantly made of the top 4 of these elements oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and these elements along side helium are the most commonly distrubuted elements in the cosmos.
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20. A dusty star throwing off a rainbow view
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19. One of the most remarkable nebulas ( a massive collection of clouds and dust in space) the pillars of creation, a maternity for births of new stars
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18. Pay back is a bitch ![]() There is a massive hydorgen gas racing at high spped ejected from our galaxy but has been observed to be making a boomaranging course towards the galaxy. it will slam into our galaxy in about 30milliom years from now. the bastard probably is not smiling for being rejected ![]() Ooops its pay back time ![]()
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......who knows the kind of tech ETs might have/use




the death of massive stars are the most violent explosions known to man, leaves a sad but beautiful enduring view and all the elements produced during their life time scattered in space making it possible for planets like earth to have them (helium, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, iron) remarkably humans are predominantly made of the top 4 of these elements oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and these elements along side helium are the most commonly distrubuted elements in the cosmos.