alien life

[Freedom]

99.9% of everything that lived has gone extinct.

Often by evolving into something else.

Humans gradually evolved from the first primates which existed tens of millions of years ago, which in turn had evolved from the first small mammals in the late Triassic, which in turn had evolved from synapsids which were around in the Permian and late Carboniferous.

But if something had killed off those ancestors, we wouldn't exist.

But when you kill the last individuals of a species, genera or clade of living creatures, you destroy the future.

[walrus]

I wonder if aliens have pets

[brocktonblockbust]

Everything doesn't exist. Nothing exists. For if it exists, it means it was once nonexistent. But if it was at any time nonexistent, it wouldn't contain anything at all for it to COME INTO EXISTENCE.

[Gandalf]

I agree with Freedom on this issue. As individuals some of us are the most peaceful non destructive people you could ever hope to see, but as a collective the way we have mutated our species with capitalism, exploitation, and war, we are a despicable creature in that regard. I have nothing but contempt for that side of our species and think the world would be far better off without us. People don't like to face up to the realities, but look at the way we have treated the Congo, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the regimes toppled constantly just because people stand up for the rights of people who just want to be free. The human species is like a cancer in that regard. It is spreading all over it's host and suffocating out species left, right and centre. Now with environmental collapse and a refusal to alter the course of neo liberalism or stop war, we are eating ourselves, the ones least able to defend against it of course and it will eat higher up the food chain as mechanisation takes hold. If people would just sit back and say 'Let's alter course, let's have less children' it could at least stabilise the disease, but instead we refuse to pay any heed and on it marches.

Aliens would be best served avoiding any contact with this wreckage of a species. Unless they are like us and if their technology is more advanced then we will be consumed.

[Spicoli]

Why hasn't man returned to the moon? Money, been there done that, discovered something in 69' best left alone? Seems private funders and corporations have a greater interest in doing so more than NASA.

[walrus]

Why hasn't man returned to the moon? Money, been there done that, discovered something in 69' best left alone? Seems private funders and corporations have a greater interest in doing so more than NASA.

When we had the shuttle they, NASA, said it would take them 10 years to build the tech to go to the moon.
Next year space X is providing a paid service that will bring people around the moon twice and hopefully return them. So Elon musk is probably five years away from a moon landing

[Master]

Mars is where they want to go next with a host of rockets from many countries but the best way see man move to another area would be the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.