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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 12, 2009 23:05:22 GMT -5
There's a higher chance we are already in a virtual world than a real one. -Guinness World Records Gamer Edition 2008.
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 12, 2009 23:11:29 GMT -5
This is a real world though?
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 12, 2009 23:50:08 GMT -5
Possibly but not probably. As I just said there is a higher chance we are in a virtual world created by some superior species.
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 12, 2009 23:52:14 GMT -5
...lolwut? That sounds a whole lot like religion.
Ever heard of evolution? Natural selection?
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 15, 2009 0:34:08 GMT -5
search up the 2008 gamers edition guinness records book. It's in there somewhere.
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Post by The Italian Dragon on Mar 15, 2009 15:56:08 GMT -5
.. And I got a look about a book speaking 'bout this. Goota admit it it was totally crazy ( a bit like if Matrix was real life @_@ )
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 15, 2009 17:46:07 GMT -5
Page 49 - Are We Really Here?
A few years ago Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University published a research paper in which he claimed we were probably already living in a simulated world like The Matrix. An advanced future human civilisation would have the ability to create such worlds, inhabited by computer programs so complex that they think they are people. A practically infinite number of these could be run, with virtual people vastly outnumbering real ones. Statistically, we would have more chance of being virtual than real so, as far as the future of games go we could already be living in it!
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 15, 2009 17:49:40 GMT -5
^ Oh my lawd. The only people more stupid to think that up are the people who believe in it. These are probably the people who believe in advanced alien civilisations. amirite?
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 15, 2009 19:21:11 GMT -5
Yeah they probably do. But hey if you want to hack their ideas to pieces what are yours?
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 15, 2009 20:54:04 GMT -5
My...ideas? Evolution. Life starting in the primordial soup. AND, if aliens exist, I hardly doubt they would be Marvin the Martian look a likes, they would probably look like insects, or still be bacterial.
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 15, 2009 21:10:52 GMT -5
Well the person who did this didn't say they wouldn't look like that.
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Post by Warrior Passionate on Mar 15, 2009 21:14:12 GMT -5
AND, if aliens exist, I hardly doubt they would be Marvin the Martian look a likes, they would probably look like insects, or still be bacterial. Maybe, maybe not. I mean, they could be slightly advanced as in they could be sentient. They just haven't reached us yet. But then again, I don't know.
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 15, 2009 21:21:24 GMT -5
AND, if aliens exist, I hardly doubt they would be Marvin the Martian look a likes, they would probably look like insects, or still be bacterial. Maybe, maybe not. I mean, they could be slightly advanced as in they could be sentient. They just haven't reached us yet. But then again, I don't know. There is a reason we are called the "Goldilocks planet" The requirements for life on Earth is just perfect, the right amount of minerals, the correct distance from a sun, the correct size for a neighbouring sun, the correct orbital path, the right everything. What are the chances of another planet being formed in exactly the same way as Earth? Near zilch. I doubt that aliens are sophisticated life forms. They are merely the figment of a conspirator's imagination just so they can get attention and paid for a news story about some vague UFO sighting.
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Post by Warrior Passionate on Mar 15, 2009 21:25:09 GMT -5
Well, I never said there was, but that there could be. It is true that Earth is the perfect planet for life as we know it, and the universe is not just the Milky Way.
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 15, 2009 21:34:23 GMT -5
Well, I never said there was, but that there could be. It is true that Earth is the perfect planet for life as we know it, and the universe is not just the Milky Way. You're assuming an awful lot about me. Like...me not knowing that the Milky Way is the only galaxy? Even a 10 year old knows that. Irrelevant. If there was aliens, and for example, they lived in an extremely hot environment. It may look like this wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Grand_prismatic_spring.jpg/300px-Grand_prismatic_spring.jpgOur hyperthermophiles can live at up to 80 to 120 degrees Celsius, so if organisms did live on other planets, it is extremely unlikely that they're intelligent.
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