Where are the aliens?
 

Just outside all of our borders, I would think? 🤔 
 

 

I didn't see the cube in action, but the shoes worked well when they demonstrated, but the price was too high. We don't change light bulbs in the high ceiling very often.

We keep some hay by the fire place for kindling. They were trying to sell a wheel to "spin straw into gold". "Please!", I told them, "you can't light a fire with gold, LOL"!  

They went on down the street, I doubt anybody bought their stuff.  

 

 

Well if life elsewhere is anything like this planet, it seems life cant grow enough to get to a point where its smart enough to overcome long range space travel. It either gets wiped out by a meteor, life conflicts have wars with each other instead of working together or they get smart enough to create robots and then the decline starts.

I have an idea that any aliens arriving while announcing altruistic motives are hiding their real intentions. If they go to all that trouble, it's to make a buck at our expense. Like those green salesmen trying to pawn off their shiny trinkets for $50! My IQ is already high enough! And life is good here in Ralph's Trailer Park. Especially since the Ebenezers next door finally removed that rusting abandoned pickup off their front lawn.

Another group of door to door salesbeings from outer space showed up. But with better merchandise. Wonderful magnetic socks, tiny finger hands, yodeling cucumbers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

29 minutes ago, Fielder said:

tiny finger hands

Seeing those fingers reminds me of one of my favorite movies when I was a kid:

 

On 1/6/2026 at 12:50 AM, martin-w said:

 

Convergent evolution is a concept I've mentioned before on the forum. Many, in fact most "experts", would say that an alien species is likely to be vastly different to us and that the Star Trek concept of humanoid aliens with a few ridges on the nose is nonsense. Well, I'm not sure about humanoid with a few nose ridges, but we do see convergent evolution in nature, where the same solution for a given problem is manifest. So maybe there are alien species out there that look "similar" to us. 

It's a question of Niche. If the niche is the same the species is the same. It's like hand in glove. That's why there are no inter species, spices. No viable niche. no viable species. nature Abhors a vacuum and fine tuning orders niche's. There are Cats and dogs out there but no catdogs. The system is rigged.

Edited January 9Jan 9 by FBW737

4 hours ago, FBW737 said:

There are Cats and dogs out there but no catdogs.

 

Hmmm.... 🤔 I will now desperately search for a Catdog, or indeed a Dogcat.

5 hours ago, FBW737 said:

There are Cats and dogs out there but no catdogs.

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

I will now desperately search for a Catdog, or indeed a Dogcat.

Consider the fox.

Russia ran a program to domesticate them. It worked, too.

Hook

2 hours ago, LHookins said:

Consider the fox.

 

Same biological family as dogs. True members of the dog lineage. 

Believe it or not, Hyenas aren't dogs, they are more closely related to cats, but their own unique family. 

It's time to come clean. As you guys know I recently had an insight that changed my mind! LOL! That doesn't happen often. But It was no ordinary insight! It was the final missing piece of a natural Philosophy (AKA Physics) problem. The character of the problem is prospectively near the terminus the system I had in mind. Familiarity with the epistemic arc indicated that I was near the end for a while! But I was beginning to think the solution was an infinite regress. In my book that starting out worse than you began. To cut a long story short the insight showed up on Canadian Thanks Giving in a social setting. Something happened that convinced me that my broader thesis was for want of a better term, correct. The story is hilarious but  respecting privacy I cant tell it. Anyway I'm no longer in a  doxastic state with low credence. I can only describe myself now as a true believer with a healthy dose of scientific skepticism but when I say true believer I mean if there is another planet out there (and statistically speaking there just plane is (superabundants) where a precise mirror of the niche we occupy on earth exist then the species that occupies that niche is human. the more exact the niche match the closer the human resemblance. Convergence explicitly states nature comes up with the same best solution every time. Even in unrelated species Two identical niches two identical species. Even if they are separated by hundreds or thousand of light years. Remarkably this isn't that far from my, 'there are no aliens stance' since I always say you cannot beat credible eye witness testimony and there is, in fairness, plenty of that. But I always that us from the not to distant future is fare more likely than us from a 100 million light years away. Anyway I've been grappling with a head scratcher in Kant since I graduated 25 years ago and I though I already had the same problem since I was 12. Studying philosophy just proved to me that the problem was real. And writing my Grad thesis on the problem proved it was real because I got a 1st. It turns out Academia doesn't like the problem and wishes it would go away because they think its intractable. Writing about it just gets you in trouble. Even if you solve it. I know because I just had the paper I wrote about it rejected by PhilSci-Archive and got ignored arXiv despite Grok telling me it is an original and coherent critique. Grok got it and perhaps some of you know that I am referring to the postulated "thing in itself".  What could that have to do with aliens you ask. Rather a lot as it turns out. Kant is at the end of the historical arc of western philosophy. Everything after his CPR is Flailing. Likewise GR is the end of the large scale universe epistemological arc. Sure they spent a few decades just filling the empirical gaps and ironing out the wrinkles but they are definitely flailing now with recent anomalous discoveries. Pissing their pants actually, truth be know! QM stands alone as the most complete least anomalies theory ever. I say it's just complete. There is nothing more to it so they are kinda flailing with TEO's right now and have done for at least 70 years with no success. Everything is flailing except Evo/Devo. THat's flourishing for now. but not that much growing room. The Evo/Devo stuff wasn't really that interesting to me until recently but I have a pretty sharp grip of GR and QM for a layman. Kant underpins them all and that stuff I know well. Somehow I always thought there was a missing link between Kants Critique of Pure Reason and the Natural philosophy (todays Physics). The experience I had on thanks giving last year revealed that missing link to me rite large. Painfully obvious and then the implications! Earth shattering! Its a big claim but it reconciles General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. I know you are all thinking. Martin was right!  That guy belongs in straitjacket. But its out in the wild on X so the rubber meets the road so to speak. if you are interested, and It is free! If its nothing its a least 10 page tour de force of Kants Transcendental Unity of Apperception. If I'm right you can say you had the pleasure of knowing the 21st centuries Albert Einstein and tell everyone the guy was a  schmuck.🤣 Here's the link to the X post 

 

Edited January 19Jan 19 by FBW737

46 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

It's time to come clean.

Whoa, did you just drop some acid?

 

1 hour ago, Mike A said:

Whoa, did you just drop some acid?

Whaahahaaa. Go read the paper. Grok thinks I'm right!😋

On 1/9/2026 at 12:18 AM, FBW737 said:

There are Cats and dogs out there but no catdogs.

 

Ratcat.