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[Nilocy]

I quite liked Avatar. I felt bad for rooting for the humans throughout it... There has to be some sort of anger felt towards a person who ditched his entire race for some hippies.

[Rose]

the chance of alien life using RNA/DNA is exactly the same as the chance that alien life uses Agent X

the difference is, we know what about DNA, but not about Agent X.

[dragnar]

I'm guessing that if/when we encounter alien life(I refuse to believe none exists, but we might blow ourselves up first...) we won't even recognize it as being life, at least not at first. What we are currently looking for is life as we know it elsewhere in the universe, which might be an insignificant fraction of life.

Also, I can't imagine anything called a "na'vi" doing anything but yelling "Hey! Listen!" over and over again...

I quite liked Avatar. I felt bad for rooting for the humans throughout it... There has to be some sort of anger felt towards a person who ditched his entire race for some hippies.

The only response this forum can ever give to environmentalism: magma.

[Neruz]

Very big if. It's almost certain that there is other life out there in the universe, but space is big, and unless we find a way to cheat relativity, we'll likely never meet any aliens.

[dragnar]

That really depends on the value of drake's equation. We could be only a few stars away from alien life! Intelligent life on the other hand... there's a good chance we'll never find anyone else out there.

[Armok]

Define "never". It's probably millions of years, pherhaps not even in this galaxy, but that's not the same as "never".

[WorkerDrone]

Chances are humanity won't live past the end of the century, why are we even talking millions of years.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Because if we launch the Earth in an unspecified direction at near the speed of light using the LHC, we will survive for millenia due to time dilation. Before spectacularly going KABLOOEY against a neutron star in a galaxy far far away. The aforementioned millenia will also manage to look and feel like a tiny fraction of a second due to aforementioned time dilation, but that's beside the point.

[dragnar]

Survive for millenia, experience only an instant. And how would the LHC move the earth anyway?!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, it may or may not do quite a large amount of things, up to and including causing the end of the universe. Might as well launch the earth via a massive induced gravitational anomaly.

[LegoLord]

This thread turned from something serious to a nonsense discussion of the apocalypse - something which, in case I didn't already make it clear, is nonsense, regardless of way, shape, or form.  There's no way to predict our survivability.  The only thing we have reason to suspect might kill of a large portion of the human race in a short time is a big ole' meteor that has, what, a 5% chance of actually even hitting us?  Several years from now?

[Sean Mirrsen]

At least it's not a 0.0001% chance.

[Nadaka]

That really depends on the value of drake's equation. We could be only a few stars away from alien life! Intelligent life on the other hand... there's a good chance we'll never find anyone else out there.

Out there? You are an optimist. There is a good chance we will never find intelligent life on earth.

[DJ]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I've heard humans are after some ore and the native life is just an obstacle. Why didn't they nuke them from orbit? It makes perfect sense, and it just doesn't happen often enough in the SF genre.

[Duke 2.0]

 Apparently there some scientific reason that they can't disturb the land too much else some mystical... thing happens that ruins it all.