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GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 13 May 06 Posts: 8927 Credit: 1,361,057 RAC: 0 |
For posterity, why don't we state our prediction for First Contact (let's assume it hasn't happened yet - call it Next Contact of you believe in area 51 etc). I say First Contact will be in 56 hours time, that is, 9:33 PM GMT Tuesday 19 December 2006. Failing that, assuming a slight error in my calculations, in 56 years time, that is 1:33 PM GMT 2062 flaming balloons |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
We've already met the aliens...and they are us! EEK! |
GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 13 May 06 Posts: 8927 Credit: 1,361,057 RAC: 0 |
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Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
Ground control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you.... Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the moon Planet earth is blue And there's nothing I can do. |
Fabe Send message Joined: 23 Nov 99 Posts: 79 Credit: 2,774,904 RAC: 0 |
I say never. The big rock out there with our name on it hits us first, then we go the way of the dino's. |
BODLEY Send message Joined: 19 Oct 06 Posts: 725 Credit: 130,841 RAC: 0 |
I say never. The big rock out there with our name on it hits us first, then we go the way of the dino's. Yup ... I agree ... Except there are people out there today who dress up in funny pseudo futuristic gear - which puzzles me a lot. In an age when supposedly man can go at a trillion miles an hour (and when he wants, twitch the speed-knob to Warp 11!), zip through 'worm-holes', by-pass 'black holes' and find an infinite number of other 'civilisations' - ALL of which, with certain cosmetic differences - bear a striking resemblance to US on this Planet (and ALL of which speak perfect English - as well as their own decipherable "language"), please tell me WHY these people would want to dress up in 1980's materials? Surely it is the equivalent of the Neanderthal man dressing up in Saks 5th Avenue! People sometimes have to stop watching television programmes and go outside their doors and get a life! |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
I say never. The big rock out there with our name on it hits us first, then we go the way of the dino's. Where is your imagination Sir Bodley! :-) |
BODLEY Send message Joined: 19 Oct 06 Posts: 725 Credit: 130,841 RAC: 0 |
OOOOOPS!!! I forgot to tell you ... I am a realist! Oh! Dear!!! |
SuperBuZZ Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 1466 Credit: 438,350 RAC: 0 |
Ground control to Major Tom Eh? What? |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
OOOOOPS!!! isn't that the X factor? |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
Ground control to Major Tom Put your Hearing Aids in will you Major? |
Celtic Wolf Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3278 Credit: 595,676 RAC: 0 |
I am going to predict sometime in 2010 we will learn we truly are not alone in this Universe. |
kinhull Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0 |
Some time during the economic boom period after WWIII Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. |
GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 13 May 06 Posts: 8927 Credit: 1,361,057 RAC: 0 |
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kinhull Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0 |
Some time during the economic boom period after WWIII Probably after China refuses to join. By the time that some people in the hierarchy of the EU consider that it may be economically advantageous for a stronger 'economic-linking', China will be in a powerful enough position to not need it, they will already have access to their own economic spheres of interest (Russia, Japan, India, Oceania, South America). I predict that there will be a number of proxy wars in the aftermath of economic disagreements. But on the bright side, after the dust has settled, and infrastructure has been rebuilt, we should be in a better position to get down to seriously looking for ET. I reckon a signal will be found some time in the next 100 years. Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. |
thorin belvrog Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 |
May be the first contact will come when every country on earth is on the same economic level - and instead of UNO etc., a united government for the entire planet has been erected... Account frozen... |
GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 13 May 06 Posts: 8927 Credit: 1,361,057 RAC: 0 |
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GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 13 May 06 Posts: 8927 Credit: 1,361,057 RAC: 0 |
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