AlienCon 2018

[icecream-guy]

Found out AlienCon 2018 is coming to Baltimore in the fall,  picked up my tickets today,  just got a one day pass for me and the kid.

[SimonV]

Interesting line-up, I would go too... This one of your interests?

[icecream-guy]

Interesting line-up, I would go too... This one of your interests?

yeah,  been watching Ancient Aliens TV show on HISTORY channel for years.
too much evidence from there and other resources to say there is not intelligent life elsewhere, cosmos is just too big.
convention should be an interesting time.

[deanwebb]

Interesting line-up, I would go too... This one of your interests?

yeah,  been watching Ancient Aliens TV show on HISTORY channel for years.
too much evidence from there and other resources to say there is not intelligent life elsewhere, cosmos is just too big.
convention should be an interesting time.

I take an opposite view. The dice we had to roll to get our particular earth were against infinitely long odds. The cosmos may be just big enough to produce the conditions needed to start life on this one planet.

Things we don't always consider are how metals are deposited on a planet within easy reach of the surface. The earth has to be mostly formed and *then* pass through the ultra-rare supernova that produced a significant amount of Uranium, for example. Multiply by all the other elements and the earth having to hit those dust clouds at just the right time and we come out as the biggest lottery winners in the universe.

[icecream-guy]

Interesting line-up, I would go too... This one of your interests?

yeah,  been watching Ancient Aliens TV show on HISTORY channel for years.
too much evidence from there and other resources to say there is not intelligent life elsewhere, cosmos is just too big.
convention should be an interesting time.

I take an opposite view. The dice we had to roll to get our particular earth were against infinitely long odds. The cosmos may be just big enough to produce the conditions needed to start life on this one planet.

Things we don't always consider are how metals are deposited on a planet within easy reach of the surface. The earth has to be mostly formed and *then* pass through the ultra-rare supernova that produced a significant amount of Uranium, for example. Multiply by all the other elements and the earth having to hit those dust clouds at just the right time and we come out as the biggest lottery winners in the universe.

I would think more common than you think,  on the billions and billions of galaxy's and trillions of stars, probably 90% of those with planets...  more stars than there are grains of sand on earth.

Regarding your other comment,we are all truly and literally children of the stars,  back at the start of this event horizon, there was only Hydrogen, through billions of cycles of stars going supernova and blowing up and creating heavier elements, were we able to be created. everything in us, around us, is from the stars.

[deanwebb]

I like to think we're alone until proven otherwise - gives us a strong incentive to take good care of the world we've got.

[SimonV]

I pretty much grew up on the X-files and nineties sci-fi so i've always been fascinated by the topic. Over the years I've consumed tons of books, documentaries and podcasts. My current stance, not convinced about the Ancient Alien theory. Seems mostly about translations from ancient texts, Zecharia Sitchins interpretation in particular. It still interests me but the whole UFO/alien field is so riddled with charlatans, that it's best to be very sceptical about everything.

[deanwebb]

To be sure, though, there are some pretty wild theories about alien involvement in WW2. I've used them as a basis for a sci-fi story.

[icecream-guy]

To be sure, though, there are some pretty wild theories about alien involvement in WW2. I've used them as a basis for a sci-fi story.

Yea, Nazi Germany was heavily into the occult, dark forces, mysticism, aliens, pretty much anything that could provide them with an edge during the war. 

[deanwebb]

To be sure, though, there are some pretty wild theories about alien involvement in WW2. I've used them as a basis for a sci-fi story.

Yea, Nazi Germany was heavily into the occult, dark forces, mysticism, aliens, pretty much anything that could provide them with an edge during the war. 

They even had a theory that the world was a sphere curved inward around a sun... they wanted to build a big cannon to shoot the USA across the gap.