New Spielberg movie - Transformers

[morganster (imported)]

This forum is 'media and more' so I guess this item fits here. It is not humor though, so sorry if it's in the wrong place.

I just saw the trailer for a new Spielberg production called "Transformers - Far Side of the Moon". The premise is that the Apollo 11 mission to the moon discovered a crashed alien spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The craft pulls itself back together and wrecks havoc, etc., etc. This subject seems to be an obsession of Spielberg's, what with E.T., Close Encounters, and etc.

Sorry guys but there is no such thing as an 'alien spacecraft' because there is no such thing as an 'alien'. Life is peculiar to the Earth and exists nowhere else in the universe. It is a singularity that emerged miraculously here and only here some 3.5 billion years ago. The tag line of the trailer is "We are not alone, we are definitely not alone."

Wrong! We are alone. If anyone doubts that assertion, I invite them to come forward with some evidence, any evidence, to the contrary.

[Dave (imported)]

But if we told you the TRUTH,

we'd have to use the alien brain device to make you forget.

[morganster (imported)]

But if we told you the TRUTH,

we'd have to use the alien brain device to make you forget.

Forget what?

[transward (imported)]

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Sorry guys but there is no such thing as an 'alien spacecraft' because there is no such thing as an 'alien'. Life is peculiar to the Earth and exists nowhere else in the universe. It is a singularity that emerged miraculously here and only here some 3.5 billion years ago. The tag line of the trailer is "We are not alone, we are definitely not alone."

Wrong! We are alone. If anyone doubts that assertion, I invite them to come forward with some evidence, any evidence, to the contrary.

Sorry but that's a bit arrogant. I am perfectly willing to grant that no convincing evidence of alien life has been presented yet. But given that there are an estimated 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe each of which has about 200 billion stars, with who knows how many planets, and we have only been able to examine one planet revolving around a small sun in an insignificant galaxy for life. On that one planet, namely Earth, we find intelligent life. If you have studied statistics and probability you know that you cannot assign a probability to a unique event. Your statement is a bit like a bacterium on the inside of a flea in the ear of an elephant in the middle of Africa deducing the nature of the universe from the conditions in the fleas gut.

Transward

[kyennamo (imported)]

First off.....I love transformers movies. And the next one is gonna be 3d. Hell yeah.secondly, transformers is fiction anyway so lighten up. As for the theory of life elsewhere in the universe,its a little naive and a lot arrogant to insist earth is the only planet in the infinite expanses of the universe to have produced life ( whether on not that is intellighnt life is debatable ) . Im gonna have to side with transward on this one. Its almost a mathmatical impossibility that there is no otherlife in the universe. Sounds like the creationist theories they used to jam down my throat in catholic school. Anyway, correct me if im wrong and I very well may be but didn't they alread find proof that life once existed on mars ( albeit micro organism but still life ). That's already 2 for 2 by my count.

[Eunuchorn (imported)]

This forum is 'media and more' so I guess this item fits here. It is not humor though, so sorry if it's in the wrong place.

"We are not alone, we are definitely not alone."

Wrong! We are alone. If anyone doubts that assertion, I invite them to come forward with some evidence, any evidence, to the contrary.

Okay, you want evidence? Define what you will accept as that evidence.

there are gigabytes of pictures, stories and commentary on UFO's, and of course abduction claims. are they all liars?

[Dave (imported)]

First off.....I love transformers movies. And the next one is gonna be 3d. Hell yeah...

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And Shia Lebouef promises to act in this movie.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I have aliens living next door to me though I think they are from Mazatlan

[Riverwind (imported)]

There is the line in the move Men in Black, where Tommy Lee Jones says to Will Smith, 500 years ago everybody knew the world was flat, 200 years ago everybody knew the earth was the center of the solar system and 5 minutes ago you knew we were alone in the universe, think of what you will know tomorrow?

This may not be an exact quote but close enough. Your argument that we are the only planet with life is unfounded. The odds are greatly in favor of we are one of billions of worlds with intelligent life, and some are way more advanced then we are.

But, you keep that thought right up until they land in the middle of temple square in Salt Lake City.

Then we will redefine reality.

River

[BossTamsin (imported)]

And Shia Lebouef promises to act in this movie.

I have an easier time believing in little green men from mars than in his acting.

On the plus side, his acting was better than Megan Fox's.

Back to life elsewhere...

Considering it's only been in the last 20 years that we've been able to detect planets outside our solar system, and only in the last few that we've been discovering something other than gas giants, I'd say it's still premature to declare the universe dead. Heck, we've only just started discovering planets in the 'Goldilocks zone' with even the potential to form life as we know it.

I am hoping that Gliese 581 g proves to be the first exoplanet with free oxygen. Even if it's not that planet, considering the rate we're discovering exoplanets these days, I feel comfortable predicting that within five years we'll discover one with free oxygen in the atmosphere. Now THAT will make waves.