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Little Green Men From Mars (UCB)

Posted in Deep Thoughts, User Choice BLog, tagged Aliens, Chris Lisanti, Deep Thoughts, ET, Extra Terrestrials, Mars, Men from Mars, Space, Space Travel on October 22, 2010| 3 Comments »

After a brief reprieve Kooky Kyle climbs back into the limelight with this week’s UCB win. He asked for my thoughts on aliens, not people from other countries living in the United States but extra terrestrial beings from Space. He wanted to know if I thought they exist and if they have visited earth.

I must write that I am a realist in most of my beliefs and that I don’t really have much strong inkling in the supernatural on a whole. I don’t feel strongly either way about the presence of a god, but will consider myself an agnostic. I don’t obsess of ghosts yet wont put the possibility of their existence completely out of my mind. The existence of aliens falls into similar respects to the previous two categories, although I think out of the three it is the one I feel the most strongly about.

Yes I do believe that there are or were other beings out in space. If one was to just go by the pure mathematical probability of their existence a sensible person could not rule out the possibility that life exists outside of Earth. There are billions of planets, galaxies, etc out there in space. Their numbers are infinite.

Now knowing that fact can one really sit there and say that Earth is the only planet in the entire universe and so forth that is able to sustain life? That’s impossible; some where out there Im sure there are others. Of course the issue is where, when and how far. We can be pretty sure that in our immediate solar system there is no life or at least life in such as us considering the climate and make up of the other planets.

Then when one looks at solar systems and galaxies light years away well the possibility of life becomes more probable. How far away are we talking? Light years, billions of light years? Whatever the case we are talking about places too far away for us to reach under our current situation of reasoning. Also maybe life did exist in other places but had died out.

Our own planet has a dead line. At some point our sun is going to burn out making sustainable life on Earth impossible. Evidence has been found on both Mars and a moon off Jupiter of the possibility that life once existed there. For me its not a question of if aliens exist but more of when and how far.

For these reasons I think the possibility of us actually making contact is slim to none. Our ability to travel light years successfully is far far away. I would say a hundred years or better if we can manage to keep a stable world economy to allow for such progress to happen. I don’t see us ever having the technology to make such travel a reality.

If there are alien life forms out there who have developed the technology to travel such distances I would think either they would want nothing to do with us deciding that the inhabitants of Earth are too simple to be bothered with or would decided to show up and mow us down with their superior technology. Hopefully the former and not the latter is the case.

Could extra terrestrials have already visited Earth? That is a possibility as well. If for instance an entire race of people existed some hundred of light years away and they reached the sophistication of such travel then they may have already reached Earth some hundreds of years ago. Many primitive cultures such as the Egyptians and Mayans certainly had similar beliefs in a higher power and both also built pyramids that are somewhat a mystery to us of their construction. Both had a highly advanced understanding of math and science as well that was far beyond their time of reasoning and comprehension.

Did aliens come down and teach these primitive peoples a thing or two and even live amongst them? It certainly although rather far fetched is not out of the question. It is a bit of a coincidence that two races of people living far apart from each other on different sides of the globe built very similar structures during the same time period. Shit maybe aliens are living with us right now and we don’t even know it.

So are aliens real? Do they visit us? I think its very plausible but at this time Im still not going to commit to any side of the issue. I personally like to believe that there are others out there. It just does not make logical sense that we are the only planet that has or had sustained life.

The Aliens Have Landed!

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Back In Time (Blast From The Past: 2010)

Posted in Blast from the past 2010, Deep Thoughts, tagged Back to the Future, Doc Brown on October 10, 2010| 3 Comments »

This weeks Blast from the past is from the rather recent past, March of 2010, but being that I quoted it in Groovin’ High I felt it prudent to repost the blog here at SurfingRuinedMyLife.net as opposed to just linking the Myspace since I am trying to eradicate that link all together. This was originally a UCB requested by none other then Kooky Kyle on my thoughts about time travel. As always anything in red I added to the blog for this most recent posting.

Back in Time (UCB)

This week’s UCB is won by Kooky Kyle despite my irate feelings towards him for not showing up to his scheduled Chris Lisanti Adventure Tour and subsequently causing me to miss an all expense paid trip to Costa Rica (for more on this you will have to wait for this week’s week in review blog) the kid still manages to throw down some of the best and most frequent submissions of topics. Him not coming out to SB was his loss anyway Im sure it was much more fun for him to sit around Wrightsville with his thumb up his ass on spring break instead of running wild in Santa Barbara. I was planning on banning Kooky from my home here for life, but then he put down a healthy deposit on a J7 for me thus rightfully atoning for his impetuousness. Ironically the board ended up being to robust for me forcing me to sell it Mauriello for a deal and a half. Kooky asked if Doc Brown showed up in the Flux capacitor laden Delorean and offered me the keys to car when and where would I travel to in the many folds of the time travel nexus or maybe I would just settle for a time traveling phone booth and George Carlin (props if you know what I am referencing in this last part).

To be honest as enticing as time travel is the complexity, dangers to humanity, damage to the time space continuum and overall responsibility involved is way to much for me. If we are based in a single universe time travel is impossible as a direct result to causality. Say you travel back in time and prevent your own personal conception, then you would have never existed to travel back in time in the first place. Yet if you wish to think of the possibility to the existence of an infinite number of universes as proposed through quantum physics stating that for every situation encounter each possible outcome is played out thus splitting that one instance into as many sub-universes as possible and then those will branch off and so on and so forth making an infinite number of universes existing at the same moment. In this case then you would be able to travel in time and prevent your own personal existence cause it would only be in on possible universe that would not exist.

If the latter example then technically are you really traveling in time or just another out come of your original decision to travel through time in the first place and then what is the actual reality of the world you have traveled too? Lost yet. Time travel is pretty fucking complicated. That is just the little inkling of research that I have done on the topic over the years considering it is a topic that has captivated me since I was young.

Science aside lets for arguments sake go against the above idea of multiple dimensions and look at time travel in the pure Hollywood sense of things. Using “Back to the Future” for example where you type the date and time in and are then transported in that very spot to whatever time you plot. If you were to do this haven’t you already drastically changed the course of history? We don’t really know how very little change can eventually kick off a catastrophic event. Look at a fist size rock for example sitting on the edge of a cliff. Maybe when your time machine lands and taps that rock over the cliff. That rock hits into other rocks, which hit other rocks and next thing you know you have landslide.

Once you step out of that time machine you have already changed history. How drastic completely depends on circumstance. Then what future would you be going back to if you could even get there? Our universe is wholly based upon causality and the cause and effect to the time travel that we speak of may take a heavier toll then we can even imagine. The whole business is a little too much for my feeble brain to get a handle on. Sorry but I think I will keep my feet firmly planted here in 2010 and hope that humans never decide to travel in time, although if we are going with the universe based on causality then time travel could have already happen and this is the result? The whole the thing is an endless web of mind fuck.