Pareidolia (/ pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i- DOH-lee-ə ) is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the " man in the moon ", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.
Pareidolia is the visual or auditory form of apophenia , which is the perception of patterns within random data. Combined with apophenia and hierophany (manifestation of the sacred), pareidolia may have helped ancient societies organize chaos and make the world intelligible.

johnydon22:
Only the pyramid photo raises a little dust .. scientifically it has been assumed or speculated that Mars MAY harbour life down beneath it's dark deep craters... and some few ancient texts has suggested humans migrated from Mars ...(doubt that crap tho)

But there are two possibilities here.

[size=16]It is either we are alone in the universe or we are not (and are just one out of countless others) [/size]

the former is almost impossible..

[size=16] And both are equally scary [/size]

Teempakguy:
yes indeed.
The possibility that we are the only life is very scary. As is the possibility that we are not.
However, I maintain that we are not.

Our solar system is not the most organized, our sun is not the biggest, hell, even our galaxy is nothing to write home about compared to others. Not only that, we also live on the edge of the galaxy.

So why on earth will we be the only form of carbon based life?

In fact, I suspect Jupiter might possess life.

That's why i said that we are alone is almost impossible. .

Anyone who knows the vastness of the universe will definitely know we can never be alone. . We might just 1 out of billions if not trillion other life forms and planets that possess life though some might still be in form of single celled or micro organism. why some might still be highly developed and complex than us.

In our solar system, Am betting on Jupiter's Galileo's moons Ganymede, io, Europa and Callisto to possess life even in the simplest single celled form, most of them have shown to possess water.

it is speculated that Europa's ice ocean might be bigger than all the oceans in our planet earth..

There are thousands of planets that are in the Goldilock zone outside our solar system, we just lack the technology it takes now to explore them.. Remember most of them are many light years away

bqlekan:
We are not alone.. deep down the soil on mars, there may be life forms... most times I don't believe these sightings, but m beginning to reconsider. Especially when it took NASA almost 24hrs to release the first picture of Pluto taken by the New Horizons. The unbelievable technologies et al

New Horizons‍ '​ antennas
Communication with the spacecraft is via X band. The craft had a communication rate of 38 kbit/s at Jupiter; at Pluto's distance, a rate of approximately 1 kbit/s per transmitter is expected. Besides the low bandwidth, Pluto's distance also causes a latency of about 4.5 hours (one-way). The 70 m (230 ft) NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) dishes are used to relay commands once it is beyond Jupiter. The spacecraft uses dual redundant transmitters and receivers, and either right- or left-hand circular polarization. The downlink signal is amplified by dual redundant 12-watt traveling-wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) mounted on the body under the dish. The receivers are new, low-power designs. The system can be controlled to power both TWTAs at the same time, and transmit a dual-polarized downlink signal to the DSN that nearly doubles the downlink rate. DSN tests early in the mission with this dual polarization combining technique were successful, and the capability is now considered operational (when the spacecraft power budget permits both TWTAs to be powered).


Part of the reason for the delay between the gathering of and transmission of data is because all of the New Horizons instrumentation is body-mounted. In order for the cameras to record data, the entire probe must turn, and the one-degree-wide beam of the high-gain antenna will almost certainly not be pointing toward Earth. Previous spacecraft, such as the Voyager program probes, had a rotatable instrumentation platform (a "scan platform" that could take measurements from virtually any angle without losing radio contact with Earth. New Horizons‍ '​ elimination of excess mechanisms was implemented to save weight, shorten the schedule, and improve reliability during its 15-year lifetime.

The Voyager 2 spacecraft experienced platform jamming at Saturn; the demands of long time exposures at Uranus led to modifications of the mission such that the entire probe was rotated to make the time exposure photos at Uranus and Neptune, similar to how New Horizons will rotate.

Karmanaut:

johnydon22:
That's why i said that we are alone is almost impossible. .

Anyone who knows the vastness of the universe will definitely know we can never be alone. . We might just 1 out of billions if not trillion other life forms and planets that possess life though some might still be in form of single celled or micro organism. why some might still be highly developed and complex than us.

In our solar system, Am betting on Jupiter's Galileo's moons Ganymede, io, Europa and Callisto to possess life even in the simplest single celled form, most of them have shown to possess water.

it is speculated that Europa's ice ocean might be bigger than all the oceans in our planet earth..

There are thousands of planets that are in the Goldilock zone outside our solar system, we just lack the technology it takes now to explore them.. Remember most of them are many light years away

bqlekan:
there is always a scientific explanation for their cover ups.., one you won't even dare question. Don't be fooled bro.

Teempakguy:

I have a theory though.

What if the reasons we haven't been able to answer the "are we alone" question is because the universe is just not old enough?

If we are to assume the big bang started the universe, then it took ten billion years for stars to even start forming. Another billion years would pass before planets came into existence.

On these planets, there would be a very violent environment for a VERY long time before settling. And then we have another problem. After settling, they become dormant for long periods of time. Until some thing spontaneous occurs. Then it gives birth to life.

With this, I estimate that the earliest form of life is not older than four billion years.

This continues to develop, of course. But evolution is equally slow. And it will take a long period before it becomes multicellular.
And then it has to develop in the direction of intelligence. Life doesn't need brains to survive. In fact, I wonder why brains came into existence at all. The longest living creatures, in fact, most of the most successful life forms on earth don't have brains.

And then, these brains have to develop technology. Soon, they will begin to wonder, where is everyone?
But they will soon find the light speed limit, requiring several civilizationa to solve it.

With all this, I seriously don't think any life form in the universe can find us. Neither can we find them. Why? Because we are still too young. The universe is still too young. This is very similar to the medieval ages. When america and the rest of the world was isolated. I am sure, they too must have asked, are we alone on earth? What is beyond the ocean?
They were too young to know. But several years later. We indeed know that there was an entire civilization beyond the sea. Several of them in fact. The Mayans, Aztecs, Incas . . .

So, my theory in summary is, we cannot find other forms of life because our technology is not old enough. Neither can they, because we're the same age. They also came into existence at around the same time we did. Even if they are more advanced than us, it can't be more than a few years.

Most people think of aliens as highly advanced beings with insane tech and faster than light travel. I ask why?
Why would they be more advanced? We are the same age nah. even if they are far smarter, they would probably haven't achieved lightspeed travel yet.

Karmanaut:

Okay sir.
Whatever you say.
Take care, and polish your tinfoil hat.

bqlekan:
Teempakguy, Johnydon22, karmanaut


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZzFemBUJQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYETGJ3OGE

What do you think about these videos

johnydon22:
Done though even in a lay man sense i can tender explanations of most of the point raised there by conspiracy theorists like i once did to the ones RobinHez raised sometime ago..

But watch this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZMjpMhwNE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

bqlekan:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZzFemBUJQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYETGJ3OGE

What do you think about these videos

Karmanaut:

Educate yourself

bqlekan:

Your theory looks appealing but no proofs yet

Teempakguy:

No proof indeed. That is the bummer. However, I suspect that any civilization advanced enough to find us must have colonized several empty planets. Just like we are doing now.
The more we are, the more our collective intelligence. We should number around 20 billion before we even think of exceeding light speed barrier.

bqlekan:
how brother? Mind helping?

Karmanaut:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5833633/Apollo-11-Moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked.html

When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. There is no wind on the Moon.

The flag is held up by a horizontal bar and simply moves when it is unfurled and as the pole is being fixed into position by the astronauts. The flagpole is light, flexible aluminium and continues to vibrate after the astronauts let go, giving the impression of blowing in the wind.

No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon.

The Apollo landing takes place during lunar mornings, with the Sun shining brightly. The stars are not bright enough in this light to be captured in the photographs.

bqlekan:
how brother? Mind helping?

bqlekan:
20 billion? Where? On earth? I say no sir.. but you are right we need collective intelligence to solve some mysteries

Teempakguy:
oh. Not on earth at all.
By then, we will have colonized the entire solar system.
The moon, mars, Jupiter's moons . . . even our own oceans.

There will be so many humans that the scientific community will be equal to the entire human population today. Combine that with the artificial intelligence which is sure to be available then, we will break that barrier. And then we will take a nice trip to polaris, Pleiades, Sirius and cenutari . . . just to check if we've got pals.

Either we do that first, or they do. Either way, we can't do it now. We're too young. And so are they.

bqlekan:
hehe, man, you've got big dreams ooo.. not in the next 20millenniums

johnydon22:
[b][i]Done though even in a lay man sense i can tender explanations of most of the point raised there by conspiracy theorists like i once did to the ones RobinHez raised sometime ago..

RobinHez:



U knw the moon landing is hoax

RobinHez:

U knw the moon landing is hoax

bqlekan:
done, would have love if this was more of a layman's explanation.. looks like the videos are in slow motion to me.. do you have any more proof? This gravity one is not really appealing

Teempakguy:
ehehehe. johnydon22 has bigger ones. Trust me.
Anyway, all things being equal, the human population increases by a billion per half cenury, and this accelerates. So, unless Ebola evolves into an airborne form, I expect by the year 2500, the human population will exceed the 20billion mark.

By then, earth will be just a mother planet. People will be living on previously aforementioned celestial bodies.
Our only problem has always been the light speed barrier. Breaking that barrier will be as groundbreaking as the discovery of penicillin, or sails, or electricity, or computers. It will catapult the human race into the unimaginable future. We will be virtually UNSTOPPABLE.


History often repeats itself, you know. When Christopher Colombus arrived at america in the 1500's , he found civilizations there. Similarly in the future, when your grandson arrives on alpha cenutari B or one of the Keplers, he will most probably find a civilization there.

Either that or the aliens find us first.

Or it could be johnydon's grandson.