Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:00 pm  

Chief Stinkwort wrote:

Ettingshausen was one of my favourite players. The chances of finding another like him on another planet are in my opinion very very remote.

Have you never watched Star Trek? Almost half the Earth type planets out there have some sort of parallel development. Better still is if we invent transporters then have enough accidents with them we are bound to end up in a universe where ET was 20 years younger and had a really mean streak in him (which would be obvious by his black, twirly moustache and thigh length leather boots).

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:15 pm  

DHM wrote:

Have you never watched Star Trek? Almost half the Earth type planets out there have some sort of parallel development. Better still is if we invent transporters then have enough accidents with them we are bound to end up in a universe where ET was 20 years younger and had a really mean streak in him (which would be obvious by his black, twirly moustache and thigh length leather boots).

Course I watched Star Trek..but I always had this sneaky feeling that some of it was sort of fictional.

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:33 pm  

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said.

But, if they did, they'd surely look like us, for aren't we all made in Gods image, and if so then why would he carry on and build trillions of other planets and not make all of them in his image too.

And...why would he go to all that hard work and then not mention any of this in the bible, maybe Star Trek is the New, New Testament ?

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:56 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote: The latest published research indicates that every star in the galaxy hosts at least one planet. This leads to the stunning conclusion that there are likely to be, just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, 10 billion Earth-sized planets. The likely total number of galaxies in the universe is thought to be up to 500 billion. If so, that means 5000 billion billion Earth-sized planets. Suddenly the suggestion that every single one of those hasn't nor ever had any life on it seems almost ludicrous. Five thousand billion billion Earth-sized planets and we are the only one with life forms? I don't think so. Just PM SaintsFan, he'll have a word with god and find out if he did make any more in his image. Mind you, if anyone spots him popping down Willy Hill's with the school tuck shop money, best be looking over his shoulder when he's writing his slip

Ferocious Aardvark wrote: The latest published research indicates that every star in the galaxy hosts at least one planet. This leads to the stunning conclusion that there are likely to be, just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, 10 billion Earth-sized planets. The likely total number of galaxies in the universe is thought to be up to 500 billion. If so, that means 5000 billion billion Earth-sized planets. Suddenly the suggestion that every single one of those hasn't nor ever had any life on it seems almost ludicrous. Five thousand billion billion Earth-sized planets and we are the only one with life forms? I don't think so. Just PM SaintsFan, he'll have a word with god and find out if he did make any more in his image. Mind you, if anyone spots him popping down Willy Hill's with the school tuck shop money, best be looking over his shoulder when he's writing his slip

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:06 am  

cod'ead wrote:

Just PM SaintsFan, he'll have a word with god and find out if he did make any more in his image.

Mind you, if anyone spots him popping down Willy Hill's with the school tuck shop money, best be looking over his shoulder when he's writing his slip

He's a she.

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:02 am  

I think this seems about right.

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:21 am  

BackrowSaint wrote:

He's a she.

What is it with female Saints supporters who are involved in primary education?

Is there summat in the watter over there?

We used to have another on here, who was a classroom assistant IIRC, who was just as batty when it came to religion

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:57 am  

I was watching a programme on this subject a couple of years ago on Discovery I think, and the main concensus was that any intelligent life ( All the commentators were adamant of life existing in the universe) would be from a predatory past such as ours and would the Human race really like to meet them??

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:24 pm  

Wnidyone2012 wrote:

I was watching a programme on this subject a couple of years ago on Discovery I think, and the main concensus was that any intelligent life ( All the commentators were adamant of life existing in the universe) would be from a predatory past such as ours and would the Human race really like to meet them??

but you could equally argue...would they like to meet us?

Re: Odds on E.T. shorten : Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:28 pm  

Exactly.