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Originally posted by .OxY
Opinions on this?
get your sources straight
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Originally posted by Vimto
Why cant people just leave things alone :\ Every answer is met with another question. LEAVE THE EARTH ALONE! 
Curiosity
And thank God for that (that is: depends on point of view and if you like me or not
), otherwise I might not have been able to post this on this forum because computers maybe didn't existed...
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Originally posted by UTI
if there are aliens *which I believe, but not completely*, They must move faster than the speed of light to get here I'm sure...
Why?
Assuming that aliens having the same notion of time as us is just as inproper. For all you know the aliens live 5000 years (note: even on earth there are lifeforms which live thousands of years). In that kind of timespan, you don't need to travel faster than light to reach a distant planet. Also, they might as well have a small civilization on board of their ship, which makes that they can travel for generations and generations...., etc...
In that same aspect, maybe we aren't simply interesting enough to even visit this dirtball called Earth. And we are simply left alone because we're way to primitive in their big black spooky eyes.
All in all, there is no reason why they must be able to travel faster than the speed of light.
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Originally posted by UTI
Just like with sound... you CANNOT go faster than the speed of sound with a propeller driven aircraft... It's impossible to control it. You can travel faster than sound in it, but not survive it. Same is probably true with light...
It's a bit (fundamentally big actually) different though...
EDIT: Oh and
"You can travel faster than sound in it, but not survive it." <= you can't travel faster than sound with it as they don't generate enough power/speed.
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Originally posted by Cute Girl
ummm. concering the big bang whiped out everything
that's only theory... Besides, before the big bang there was nothing (one theory says).... To have a new big bang you first need to destroy everything again... theory of multiple big bangs and expanding/contracting universes...
And other hocus pocus like that
Let the scientists do their job they know what they are doing (well, in a sense they don't, heck the experiments
), we will benefit from it eventually (if goverments , coorperations, millitary don't monopolize/screw it up).
Oh and such a machine is nothing new though. The new thing here is that it is again bigger and better than its predecessors. Search google for CERN
(PS: CERN was also the place where the internet as we know it was 'born' btw)
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