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Post by SquirrelBoy on Aug 22, 2008 9:20:22 GMT -5
DEBATE!!! NOW!!! I'll post my opinion later.
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WarmrootBeer
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Post by WarmrootBeer on Aug 22, 2008 13:02:06 GMT -5
::Reluctantly points to "Life somewhere out there?" thread::
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Post by Bengl Von Shadowstein on Aug 22, 2008 16:44:45 GMT -5
With over a Septillion stars, and 2-8 planets on average per star, I really don't think theres a question.
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BlackHelicopter
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tell me what the rain knows...
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Post by BlackHelicopter on Aug 22, 2008 19:57:49 GMT -5
assuming that NASA and all other space exploration agencies aren't lying to us wholesale about whats really up there beyond the atmosphere...
search NASA editing raw images, should yield some interesting stuff...
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Post by SquirrelBoy on Aug 23, 2008 18:20:56 GMT -5
There, I simplified it a bit, please post what you voted for and why.
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BlackHelicopter
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Post by BlackHelicopter on Aug 23, 2008 21:31:06 GMT -5
yes, since theres God, the devil, angels, demons...
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Post by Bengl Von Shadowstein on Aug 24, 2008 0:24:25 GMT -5
...And the Borg...
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BlackHelicopter
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Post by BlackHelicopter on Aug 24, 2008 5:45:09 GMT -5
the Borg don't seem all that intelligent, they never send more than one ship to assimilate the Federation, which is rather against their shown procedure elsewhere to send multiple ships for a single planet... and also get consistently pwned by the crew of a single starship within their own space and with no support, and like 150 people on the ship, none of them anywhere near the likes of Picard or Data... (Voyager sucked, only its expansion on the Borg was really all that interesting, as well as a few other notable introductions (Prometheus class warship PWNS!)
the whole Species 8472 incident was also rather stupid... without prior knowledge it seems of what they were dealing with, they somehow opened a way into fluidic space and attacked a life form unlike any ever encountered before and hoped to overcome by sheer weight and firepower... you'd think after centuries of assimilation they'd know better, but even if it was victory after victory giving them overconfidence and a sense of invincibility, at that stage they'd already been defeated by Starfleet three times which should've been a sign to be more cautious...
messing with the Omega molecule was also not the smartest thing to do, though they can be forgiven that since the effects of an Omega explosion are next to unknown outside those who experimented with it and failed, badly...
all in all the Borg repeatedly demonstrate much imperfection as far as intelligence, especially in tactical decisions, so i move that they can't be considered an intelligent form of life as per the specifics of the question posed...
i watch too much star trek...
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Post by SquirrelBoy on Aug 24, 2008 14:52:12 GMT -5
That's why I don't watch it.
And yes for me as well. (Sorry for not posting earlier, i've been busy) Which is because, like Bengl stated somehwere, with billions upon billions of stars in just one Galaxy, how the damn hell can't there be any? And I believe most are much more advanced than us, while some are like us, and others less advanced. And maybe a few are like the Arachnid Empire in Starship Troopers. Though I don't think many are as "human" as us, by which I mean that they aren't difference in appearance from one another. And that many races are part of a galaxy wide federation which has regulations on what to do when it comes to interaction with less advanced civilizations like us.
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