[Niamh.]

This would be exciting, if it turned out to be true ....




World famous hacking activists Anonymous say that NASA is "on the verge" of announcing the existence of aliens. Anonymous is known for its hacking abilities into larger websites of news organizations and corporations. The international group of activists or hacktivists originated in 2003 on 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as a singular anarchic, digitized brain. Many out in the world praise the actions of the activists while there are just as many who denounce their actions.

Anonymous has now taken to their official Anonymous YouTube account to reveal that NASA will be announcing the existence of intelligent alien life. The caption for the video reads "NASA says aliens are coming!" The video has been watched nearly 1.5 million times with a huge section of comments, questions, and standard hate. Even more interesting is that the video has 3,142 likes and only 692 dislikes at the time of this writing.

Anonymous' claim comes from a meeting in April of this year of the United States Science Space and Technology Committee. The video takes a quote from Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, the administrator for the Science Mission Directorate. He says this.

"There are many who claim that unofficially, mankind has already made contact with aliens and not just little micro-organisms floating around inside a massive alien ocean, but advanced space-faring civilizations."
Professor Zurbuchen went on to expand on his original thought. He explains.

"25 years ago, we didn't know that planets existed beyond our solar system. Today we have confirmed the existence of over 3,400 exoplanets that orbit other suns, and we continue to make new discoveries."
The Professor then says something rather interesting about missions of the last 25 years and their focus. He says this.

"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life we are on the verge of making one of the most profound and unprecedented discoveries in history."



The new findings represent a huge explosion of knowledge that we have obtained in such a short amount of time, but does it prove the potential of possible alien life on other planets? The video goes on to say that NASA has slowly been trying to prepare the world for their upcoming announcement, an announcement that could very well change the world forever. But we trust the views of Anonymous on this subject?

Anonymous' video adds that a number of the most recent findings are providing grounds for optimism that humanity must be close to encountering life that is not native to earth. Now there are already a lot of people saying that the information is completely and utterly false, but there has not been an official statement released by NASA at this time to dispute Anonymous' claims. It is entirely possible that Anonymous is capable of hacking into NASA, so one has to wonder why they're taking information that NASA has already made public and reading in between the lines. Regardless of what you may think, the recent scientific discoveries in space are a giant leap forward to humans understanding the universe around them. We'll just have to wait and see whether NASA makes a big alien announcement in the near future. Check out the video below and decide for yourself.

Youtube video

http://movieweb.com/nasa-alien-life-...onymous-video/

[Crimson Dynamo]

Raph to win and then peel off his face to reveal space Lizard?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Raph to win and then peel off his face to reveal space Lizard?

Best BB game player of all time

[Cal.]

I'll be disappointed if they don't look like this

[andybigbro]

Exciting/Scary but I doubt NASA will announce anything.

[Withano]

Its gonna be like bacteria or sumin probs

[Crimson Dynamo]

not more immigrants?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

not more immigrants?

They probably have a way better planet than us

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

They probably have a way better planet than us

they may have but it wont have NHS and i bet the living wage is like Ł3.50

Time to form the EIP

Earth Independence Party

shouts: NIGEL

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

they may have but it wont have NHS and i bet the living wage is like Ł3.50

Time to form the EIP

Earth Independence Party

shouts: NIGEL

They'll be much more intelligent than us, they'll have them body scanners and s**t that repair your body

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

They'll be much more intelligent than us, they'll have them body scanners and s**t that repair your body

well that one in the first post looks like I do on a sunday morning

[Tom4784]

And I hope, if this is true, that they stay far away. When it comes to aliens, I'm in the Stephen Hawking school of thinking in that if they are more advanced than us then we are ****ed.

[sungrass]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

And I hope, if this is true, that they stay far away. When it comes to aliens, I'm in the Stephen Hawking school of thinking in that if they are more advanced than us then we are ****ed.

Hawking also said Corbyn should step down as leader of the labour party in March- and now Labour have wiped the tory majority. The guy gets it wrong - the more intelligent a person becomes the more compassionate too - if we came across an alien species less intelligent than us - say humans of about 10,000 years ago would we be cruel to them?

The government might want to do tests but the people would go mad if it was done inhumanely.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by sungrass

Hawking also said Corbyn should step down as leader of the labour party in March- and now Labour have wiped the tory majority. The guy gets it wrong - the more intelligent a person becomes the more compassionate too - if we came across an alien species less intelligent than us - say humans of about 10,000 years ago would we be cruel to them?

The government might want to do tests but the people would go mad if it was done inhumanely.

That just isn't true! The more Inteligent we get the more beast like we become. Whilst we may not eat our family dog, we wipe out entire countries killing millions of innocents.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

That just isn't true! The more Inteligent we get the more beast like we become. Whilst we may not eat our family dog, we wipe out entire countries killing millions of innocents.

We aren't (biologically) getting more intelligent though, we haven't as a species increased in raw intelligence since before written records began. Our collective knowledge increases over time and the general knowledge levels of individuals have increased with across the board education and literacy, access to libraries, and of course most recently the Internet (debatably ... no but seriously, vast knowledge at our fingertips makes a huge difference).

BUT our brains haven't changed. Great scientists today aren't any more intelligent than, say, Plato, Aristotle, etc... or even the ancient cultures who were mapping the stars... they just have more of the background work already done for them and more to work with. If you hopped back in time and kidnapped a baby from Ancient Greece and plonked it in a modern education system, it would fare just as well as any child today. Likewise, if you took a child today and had it raised by cavemen it would be speaking in grunts and carrying a club.


The relevance of this, really, is that there is a broad spectrum of intelligence at any one time and it IS true that more intelligent people tend to be more compassionate when it comes to large-scale questions. The actual truth is that all non-sociopathic humans, on an individual level, are compassionate by nature... the reason that less intelligent people are less compassionate on larger scales is that they are more susceptible to dehumanizing. Put Katie Hopkins in a boat with one immigrant child in the water drowning and, I almost guarantee, her overwhelming human instinct will be to save that child even at her own risk. Tell her that 1000 children drowned 1000 miles away and she'll make a cheap political quip about cockroaches.


Of course the problem is that the great minds who can create amazing things aren't necessarily the ones then going on to USE those things. Donald Trump or Kim Jong couldn't build a nuclear weapon. They couldn't even begin to get their tiny minds around the science involved in splitting atoms. But they can sure as **** press a button.


That said... I guess you could assume the same thing about any alien life form. The intellect required to develop working faster-than-light space travel would be immense. Those alien scientists would have incredible minds and would likely be fascinated by all of human culture. BUT... those great alien scientists are probably NOT the ones actually flying the ships or calling the shots. Those are probably dumb-as-a-post alien "Trumps".



Though I guess it could be an alien Theresa May...

"Primitive humans!! I have travelled across the stars to your primitive world. I have a great ship and weapons more powerful than you can imagine! ... ... ... ... ... And I have come ... ... ... To sell them to the highest bidder we'll start at 4 tonnes of pretty Earth Gold."

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by sungrass

Hawking also said Corbyn should step down as leader of the labour party in March- and now Labour have wiped the tory majority. The guy gets it wrong - the more intelligent a person becomes the more compassionate too - if we came across an alien species less intelligent than us - say humans of about 10,000 years ago would we be cruel to them?

The government might want to do tests but the people would go mad if it was done inhumanely.

Humanity is a cesspool, if aliens are anything like us but more developed then they can stay away.

[Ramsay]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

And I hope, if this is true, that they stay far away. When it comes to aliens, I'm in the Stephen Hawking school of thinking in that if they are more advanced than us then we are ****ed.

Fact. Keep well away.

[T*]

I wanna see the reciepts

[T*]

Oh there's a vid

[T*]

The aliens better be gay

[Niamh.]

Seriously, here was me thinking I'll start a nice thread about aliens for a change and it still manages to end up about bloody jeremy Corbyn and immigrants, how did this happen

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Seriously, here was me thinking I'll start a nice thread about aliens for a change and it still manages to end up about bloody jeremy Corbyn and immigrants, how did this happen

It's like that "Kevin Bacon" game. You take any topic and you have to try to make it about Corbyn in as few steps as possible.

Brillo is current champion. First time every time .

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Seriously, here was me thinking I'll start a nice thread about aliens for a change and it still manages to end up about bloody jeremy Corbyn and immigrants, how did this happen

Jeremy Corbyn to Tibb?

Youtube video

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Seriously, here was me thinking I'll start a nice thread about aliens for a change and it still manages to end up about bloody jeremy Corbyn and immigrants, how did this happen

It seems impossible to have a thread in this section without Corbyns name coming into it. Its rather amusing to me actually.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

It seems impossible to have a thread in this section without Corbyns name coming into it. Its rather amusing to me actually.

You did it tooooo.