tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post112294783229333979..comments2023-08-15T01:24:39.187-03:00Comments on The Other Side of Truth: Kaku on ET, Time Travel, Space TravelPaul Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1123200896016724762005-08-04T21:14:00.000-03:002005-08-04T21:14:00.000-03:00Hey, here's hopin' they look like us - and by "us"...Hey, here's hopin' they look like us - and by "us" I mean hot actress / model types, although without the attitude.<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1123199215930317272005-08-04T20:46:00.000-03:002005-08-04T20:46:00.000-03:00Have to say I also call "knee jerk" on that whole ...Have to say I also call "knee jerk" on that whole "aliens will be incomprehensibly alien" idea. Physics and biology are bounded by parameters. <BR/> If you posit an alien race that builds machines, records data, has the sensory input and co-ordination to pilot a vehicle AND is carbon-based (as there is NO evidence any other element forms complex enough chains for large molecule organisation and reproduction)then sorry to say, any given alien will be at least approachable and probably very recognizable. Sadly for really strange and crazy alien designs, there are very good reasons why we are these ungainly teetery kinda ugly looking naked apes with our brains in such a vulnerbale spot. <BR/> I would even go further and bet a good 100 bucks on anyone from a roughly 1G and 1 atmo pressure world is going to look vaguely similar to us.<BR/>--MECAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1122992477748904642005-08-02T11:21:00.000-03:002005-08-02T11:21:00.000-03:00Kaku assumes motivations for otherworld beings tha...Kaku assumes motivations for otherworld beings that are projections of a psychological kind -- quite unscientific.<BR/><BR/>Kaku theorizes, which is what physicists should do. But the quantum scenarios he engenders are Earthly.<BR/><BR/>Alien life, if there is such (and I believe there is), should be so strange that, unless there is one God or one Universal Principle, we could not comprehend it.<BR/><BR/>The physics of the universe may be one of a kind but the use of those physical properties depends upon a lot of suppositions that might not hold up for alien cultures: the desire to explore, to colonize, to be curious (as Earthlings are), etc.<BR/><BR/>Anthropomorphizing alien species is an art-form, not a science.<BR/><BR/>Kaku has created subjective hypotheses; hardly scientific to my way of thinking (and I like the guy's creativity).<BR/><BR/>(Being practical isn't in my nature some think, but it is quite otherwise -- my guys thinks I'm a-existential, rudimentary to the core,)<BR/><BR/>RRRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1122952943862126682005-08-02T00:22:00.000-03:002005-08-02T00:22:00.000-03:00Rich:The point isn't that we're ready to get "ther...Rich:<BR/><BR/>The point isn't that we're ready to get "there" but how "they" might be getting here.<BR/><BR/>And since when did you become interested in the practical end of the UFo phenomenon?? :-)<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1122952629796862022005-08-02T00:17:00.000-03:002005-08-02T00:17:00.000-03:00Kaku's theoretical physics are truly interesting -...Kaku's theoretical physics are truly interesting -- but don't impact ufology in a practical way,<BR/><BR/>...unless UFOs contain time travelers, with which you, Paul, are somewhat consumed.<BR/><BR/>Achieving Kaku's propositions are impractical in our life-times I'm afraid.<BR/><BR/>Rich ReynoldsRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.com