WildHennaCharizard
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1. I believe the animation in a legit form to tell great and even mature stories contrary to popular belief.
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I agree. I perfer it to live action ; you can do so many things with it if you know how.
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1. I believe the animation in a legit form to tell great and even mature stories contrary to popular belief.
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I have one that may sound fairly arrogant.
-I think it's a sign of lack of intelligence and open-mindedness if someone is oblivious to the idea of extraterrestrial life forms. I'm not saying intelligent life, or ones that are capable of interstellar travel, but it is awfully ignorant to consider it impossible when you have the Drake theory. People don't realize how huge the universe is, visible and non-visible. There is an estimated ~6+ sextillion planets out there. To think we're the only life amongst them is ridiculous.
Quite the contrary. To think that we, as humans living on Earth, were, are or will be the only intelligent life forms in the universe sounds much more arrogant to me than what you've stated here.
It does mean it's been sufficiently studied and tested, though. In science, theory doesn't mean the same as it does in a non-scientific context. Of course, that doesn't change what you said is true (in that it isn't a fact in and of itself, but merely an interpretation of other facts), but it certainly shouldn't be discarded as easily as some people do by saying "it's just a theory", as that only shows a lack of knowledge about the meaning of the word.
Earth is just one of many planets. There are probably plenty of others out there that can support life just as well. Perhaps you could elaborate further on what you mean with this exactly, though, as I might just be misinterpreting what you've said (as well as what others have said about this), because the whole idea just seems trivial to me.
To get back on topic a bit (and at the same time still relate to the above), while making exercises can be really boring and stuff, I really like and appreciate mathematics, mainly because there's little to no ambiguity, and the ambiguity that's there can pretty much always be solved.
I have one that may sound fairly arrogant.
-I think it's a sign of lack of intelligence and open-mindedness if someone is oblivious to the idea of extraterrestrial life forms. I'm not saying intelligent life, or ones that are capable of interstellar travel, but it is awfully ignorant to consider it impossible when you have the Drake theory. People don't realize how huge the universe is, visible and non-visible. There is an estimated ~6+ sextillion planets out there. To think we're the only life amongst them is ridiculous.
Quite the contrary. To think that we, as humans living on Earth, were, are or will be the only intelligent life forms in the universe sounds much more arrogant to me than what you've stated here.
Mind elaborating? I don't see how that's the contrary to what I said at all. From the way you make it sound, it sounds exactly like the statement I was making.
[sub]Don't you just hate it when you have good responses, but because of various obstacles throughout the day you forget them and have to come up with something almost out of the blue? I swear I had so much better responses, I was just unable to reply at the time... *sadness*[/sub]
Of course, we can't just toss aside theories until we are 100% absolute that we have found the truth to disprove a theory or two. Still wouldn't stop others from calling BS on it, though. Pluto being demoted to a dwarf planet, for example, which I really don't like how Pluto got demoted in all honesty. I mean, Mercury is slightly bigger, but how come it didn't get demoted? Did it just barely exceed that mark? I don't get it. But I guess I shouldn't talk, I hadn't bothered to memorize the other planets we discovered in our Solar System even though I was all over the possibility of a Planet X as a kid...
True, but we haven't yet found planets with advanced life like ours, and thus we don't know how far away from their sun they are (we mostly found younger solar systems right now with a planet or two that is possible to sustain life, but none as old or older than ours, yet). Earth is approximately 92,960,000 miles from the sun. How is it that that particular coordination made it the perfect spot for a planet to be "randomly" formed over billions of years to be able to sustain life? That's my question.
I can get behind the appreciation of mathematics, but I honestly never bothered to try and wrap my head around it. Probably because I don't believe math is my strongest area (though strangely enough, in various tests I would score high on math--probably because it just asked me to do the math and not other BS that seems to be in the school curriculum). I dunno, I guess I'm just not a logical person or something.
With that, I meant that what you said didn't sound arrogant to me at all, contrary to what you said.
Both of our posts had similar content though, so I don't see how it was contrary. Both of our posts were stating it would be arrogant to think that we're the only life forms in this universe, and both were in favor of the idea of life forms beyond our planet's. Yours more so specifically mentioned intelligent life, where I was speaking about life in general.
Oh, I must've misread it, then. I thought you said that opinion that you stated would sound arrogant to some people.
I'm the same. Some people are just too focused with it and tend to forget certain "things". I remember I've had plenty of fights with religious friends of mine because of that. I do respect, but certain things are a big no-no to me. And some of them think they are the rulers of the world... Luckily, it's not all of them!
I must admit, I never really read into the whole Pluto issue, mainly because a discussion about a definition (what it basically got down to, as far as I can tell) didn't sound too interesting to me.
I'd guess it has to do with temperature and stuff, though the existence and locations of other planets and the moon probably play a vital role as well. Again, considering the age and size of the universe, the only thing that seems random to me is the specific spot in the universe where all of these things came together.
I don't know, even at university, math still isn't too hard for me. The only reason I struggle at it is because I'm too lazy and have trouble getting myself to work. As soon as I make most exercises, I pass the subjects quite easily.
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1. I don't particularly like Family Guy and other similar shows but it okay if others like them.
1. Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and Bob's Burgers stink.
2. King of the Hill is better than the aforementioned.
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And, to be completely honest, The Cleveland Show was never really popular to begin with as it's already been cancelled and forgotten about by most people.
I agree with giving Bob's Burger another shot though. When I first saw it, the animation was terrible, the voice cast was beyond annoying, and the jokes were kind of eh. It's the type of show that you need to know the characters to find them funny. It isn't my favorite show, but I'll watch it if nothing else is on. It reminds me of old school Adult Swim with Home Movies.