will we meet aliens from outer space within 20 years?

kokonut said:
Maybe it's an unidentified falling object? :lol:
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Could be an unidentified flying, floating, free-falling, fanciful, frisbeeing, flipping, flapping, foggy, or fungus-induced object. :lol:
 
Reba said:
Could be an unidentified flying, floating, free-falling, fanciful, frisbeeing, flipping, flapping, foggy, or fungus-induced object. :lol:
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But beware of unidentified frying objects.
 
jillio said:
This is true. Does not mean that it is supernatural; simply means that you can't identify what you are looking at.
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For all we know, it could be a frozen lump of poop from a plane.
 
Banjo said:
For all we know, it could be a frozen lump of poop from a plane.
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Absolutely. And people are envisioning little green people in a space ship.:giggle: Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: "That's a bunch of shit!"
 
There are rumors flooding around the internet saying we might meet aliens for the first time ever in history starting around 2012.
 
jillio said:
Absolutely. And people are envisioning little green people in a space ship.:giggle: Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: "That's a bunch of shit!"
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Our aliens could be nothing more than clumps of bacteria on a frozen asteroid hurtling toward the Earth though I think it highly unlikely they will survive the descent.
 
I imagine we will have a transition like Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End with the aliens' involvement, but I'll believe it when I see it. :D
 
wow sorry i didnt read this sooner. Metacognitive intelligence is definitely human and I doubt other planets will be able to produce life of metacognitive intelligence. Evolution does NOT guide organisms to have that kind of intelligence. In fact, there's no purpose to have metacognitive intelligence but we just happen to have it as a species. No other species ever reached that level so far and the conditions don't seem to be favorable for metacognitive intelligence. We were NEARLY wiped out according to evolutionists around 40,000 years ago - there was a huge bottleneck and that the genetic shift is the likely the reason we gained intelligence. Apes, our closest relatives, show intelligence but evidence is lacking for metacognition. And you know, we have about 100,000 apes left - in theory, they may evolve to have metacognitive intelligence but conditions simply do not favor that course of evolution for them.

The odds of other animals having metacognitive intelligence is pretty slim.

It's like saying that a housefly saying, "There must be other species with the same number of eyes that I have!"

Or a dog saying, "There must be other species who can smell as well as I do!"

Or a cat saying, "There must be other species that purr like I do!"

Or elephants saying, "There must be other species with a trunk!"

It's all about natural selection and keep in mind that natural selection doesn't give a hoot about intelligence, trunks, purrs, barks, eyes, etc.
 
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