The 'look at what I did today' thread

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:33 pm

mercutio wrote:i work with a guy who's missus is a producer and they were looking for a car that was "kitted up". Yeah i wasnt at all happy they were trying to stick half of halfords on to mine and the subaru.

I kept saying "whoa hang on thats supposed to be inside a car on a parcel shelf " and "really !!! no self respecting street racer would do that".
The director came up and said i want the young girl sat on the bonnet of the sexy car i guessed that was mine so i went and had words with the talent

Post by **Lude-dude** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:12 pm

[quote="lewd lude lover"]@donald: IMHO its never a good idea for a deer to stand in a quiet spot in the woods and make noise. We are plenty enough worth the cull for food to anything that could come say hello and I for one feel better not digesting inside the tummy of a predator better suited to interstellar communication than we. Listening is fine and what we should restrict ourselves to for a while. An analogy to nemo and his ill advised jaunt off the reef is very fitting here.

agree with this we should know what out there before screaming were here

too be fair though if a species is capable of intersteller travel I would expect them to be more civil than we are, and produce own food at will.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:33 pm

Lude-dude wrote: too be fair though if a species is capable of intersteller travel I would expect them to be more civil than we are, and produce own food at will.

It just seems like a bit of a rash idea considering how stunted we are as a species. The last thing the limping young warthog should do is shout its whereabouts to the local hyenas.

The Spanish were more 'civilised' than the inca. How'd that turn out?

I bet you a thousand cacao beans a couple of guys once sat on a rock conversing on the reality that if ever people were advanced enough to cross the vastness of the ocean they must surely be friendly... and that they would have everything they could ever need thanks to their technology..

Its only ever about resource and the aquisition of resource for your own populations exploitation.. I cant see it changing for a different species unless they have moved past these worries and are able to spin reality at will. Even then if they eat meat they will probs eat a few of us to see if we are tasty. If we are we are f ucked

Also consider that there maybe more than one ear listening..
I am sure there are plenty of Vulcan like species out there waiting to make contact with blossoming cultures and to shelter them from the storm. But there will also be the storm itself. Species bent on finding fresh meat or slave races for the interstellar foundries or the millenia long wars of attrition between these two sides.

Pirates
Eldar
Chaos.

The reality is that we have no idea what we are shouting into. science fiction literally has as much sway as anything else. The chances are that life exists in the universe elsewhere. The chance that there is another species making noise right now? Very very small. The figures are daunting when you think about the spread of space but intelligence will not be a standard, anywhere.

I hope we find a vulcan before a Reaver finds us is all I'll say. Its not like we have anything but stones and sharp words to throw at them.

Post by **Donald** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:54 pm

Even if it turns into an end of times type deal it's worth it, just to know that we were not alone. IMO anyway.

Post by **Donald** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:56 pm

We've already shouted in one direction anyway, fair enough it might be a 25,000 light year trip (so the message isn't even there yet

) but anything in between is yet to show up

Post by **SPYDOR** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:31 pm

I wouldn't worry about that; the chances of humanity inadvertently annihilating itself is infinitely higher for a start!

Post by **Doggo** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:45 pm

Afraid I'm with LLL on this one. I have pretty limited faith in the idea of civilisation, and we probably taste like pork.

And I'm not curious enough to want to end up as some tentacled git's bacon sandwich.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:52 pm

Donald and Spydor have my vote. We'll destroy ourselves and comprehensively drokk up this planet long before any other lifeform finds us. They'll pick through the charred remains with a look of total confusion and think "what a complete bunch of Fuckwits"

Then they'll spot a 4g parked up in the background and spontaneously have the biggest orgasm of their lives!

Post by **Doggo** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:57 pm

wurlycorner wrote:......They'll pick through the charred remains with a look of total confusion and think "what a complete bunch of Fuckwits"

Are you broadcasting from the garage where you keep your Citroens?

Post by **Lude-dude** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:31 pm

think it was brian cox who made good point that civilisations wont last long enough to contact each other

in relative space time we haven't been around that long in the grand scheme of things

are they already here though? I know its crazy conspiracy stuff

but the whole Gary McKinnon thing makes me think hmm

or maybe I just like the fact he hacked NASA with his Amiga and 56k modem