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    what the hell is this new interface why is this website broken

    no i'm not staying i'm a ghost

    whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nothing to see here carry on

    uhhhhhhh

    Maybe I should just type in that style from now on because it's sooo much easier to type, especially since this way I don't even need to do stupid stuff like commas and periods.

    The only thing really new in my life is Overwatch. I swear that this is the first FPS I've ever tried and as expected I am completely garbage at any sort of shooting. But at the same time, it's actually a lot of fun and it's not just "kill enemy team", which is something I didn't really like in FPS games.

    Ugh, I swore I would stay away but my resolve is just a bit too weak for that. I'll be on for the next few days before I take off again, so if you want to play catch-up with me, shoot me a PM or something. It's the lazy summer days after all, and I'm bored.

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    You mean I ain't gonna make it to six years, Akazora? I got to say, if this isn't the end, it's definitely at least the dark ages for this community. Our new member retention rate has gone to hell, and only 1 out of 15 of the more notable posters still hang around. I'm not even sure if I count anymore. But I guess everything has to come to an end.

     

    I remember when I clocked the Top 20 Posters with 300+ posts per day. Those were insanely fun days. Basically none of it was quality, but that was how it was back in the day. This topic blew up every day, it was like a chat room in here.

     

    I remember when I decided to leave to focus on my life. But then I came back, because goddammit, this place is a bit too precious to me. There's a bunch of quirky individuals that I bet I wouldn't have gotten to meet otherwise. 

     

    I remember when I joined, that I had no idea how to fit in such a bustling community. I found my place and left my mark, I hope. My only regret now is that there might not be someone to follow after me.

     

    It's been almost six years for me. The forums are even older than that, but for me, it's been an impressive six years. I can say without a doubt that this place has definitely influenced me, changed me for the better. I'm a better man now.

     

    I'll find another place on the interwebs to hang out, but this place will always have a special place in my memories, along with all of you (yes, even those of you that I didn't particularly get along with, all of you). But it's honestly time for me to move on for good, and I hope that at the very least, that anyone I interacted with here will not forget me.

     

    Take care and safe travels, fellow DCWites.

     

    “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” - A.A. Milne

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    On My Mind #1: *looks at posts above* Gahd, I always wanted to learn how to do a baked mac and cheese.

    that sounds even worse my god

     

     

    OMM1: It's going to be 70 degrees all week.  It's November.  I'm in Cleveland.  I was promised cold.  Where is the cold?  I was promised snow.  Where is the snow?

    el nino season this year for colorado, so we might be hit hard by a lot of snow this coming winter.

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    i can't believe I forgot this, but:



    Well, if they're capable of travelling space then they would travel/expand to space but mostly, only in need. But who knows? Some alien intelligent species might have found a way to create a eternally sustaining ecology on the place they are in without the need of expanding to space and some might be even working towards this way instead of expanding and expanding.

    see: three laws of thermodynamics. an eternally sustaining ecology is impossible. 

     



    While it's true that there's little to no chance that there are life forms that have developed like humans have, well actually, it's exactly that. Everything we are today happened completely by chance. That isn't to say there aren't intelligent life forms that have developed enough to be considered a civilization though. It's just that it might have occurred in a different manner; a civilization created through other means. The human race is no ultimate template that dictates how intelligent life forms should come into existence because anything could've happened in a time span of 14 billion years. For all we know, these life forms may very well be in their primitive stages of development. Or heck, they could be far more advanced than we are. 

     

    As for why we haven't found any evidence of these intelligent life forms... the universe is absolutely massive. So massive that we're practically confined to an observable universe. At the same time, these life forms may be trillions of light years away, outside of our observable universe (which is already 93 billion light years in diameter, if that helps put things into perspective). Communicating with said life forms would be extremely inefficient as the information they send to us would be terribly outdated by the time it even reaches us, assuming that we'd even be able to communicate with them.

    first of all, here you go:

     

    Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

     

    personally, i feel like the fact that we've found no signs of life at all to be a bit of an anomaly to begin with - i believe that we should have seen some sign of extraterrestrial life at some point. 

     

    do you know how much we have managed to change the surface of the earth? if you looked around at basically any point of the earth, you would see some sign of intelligent life roaming about, whether it be our monuments, cities, or trash. i find it difficult to believe that we would miss signs of similarly intelligent life. granted, they may not be that obvious, but judging by our own species's experiences, they might be.

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    Yeah, evolution prefers expansionist but you also fail to see that species tend to expand out of need not out of curiosity, at least for the most. If a specie thrives in an environment which has somewhat an infinite stuffs that fulfills their need, I don't think they would ever need to expand and move somewhere else. Just look at us, our brain is hardwired to tell us to stay in comfort zone. We only reach out if we need to. And also, it's unhumbly to say that we are the pinnacle of evolution coz evolution has no destination or specific path (and I think you know that).

    ahahaha stop putting words in my mouth. evolution does have a destination, and that destination is inevitably to a single dominant species. we are that dominant species, mind you.

     

    even physically, we're pretty well off. we're the best throwers on the planet. the relative positioning of our arms and eyes makes it incredibly easy for us to manufacture and use tools. while we're not powerhouses like elephants or ants, we're probably one of the most efficient mammals on the planet. so much so that we are the only species capable of persistence hunting. and that's not even mentioning our incredible brainpower, which is currently unparalleled on the planet.

     

    humanity is the only species that has been shown to be able to change their environment to suit their needs. we have nuclear capabilities, and are therefore the only species with a theoretical "reset button" on most of the planet. we've managed to successfully adapt to a wider range of environments matched only by hardy bacteria. we've created a complex network of societies, and we've developed religions. we are an incredibly capable species, and i'm not sure why people try to avoid this fact. humans are exceptional.

     

    as for your comment on the comfort zone, that is true, but have you considered that our curiosity often outweighs this?

    And one more thing, the evolutionary process we are able to study is only the evolution here on our planet, on the environment we grew in. So it's kinda not good to assume that evolution is the same for every planet in the universe with life in it.

    i have no way of decisively proving that evolution works the same way on all planets. though, we have seen evidence that life seems to start from the microbial state like it does on earth, so it's a promising idea. that knocks out a lot of possibilities, and seems to bring us closer to the state of competitive nature we've observed here. not conclusive, but promising.

     

    I still don't buy the Great Filter. I mean, in my knowledege, Great Filter proposes that there's just this one single event or problem that filters all intelligent life forms which I just can't wrap around my head on. It sounds like once you pass this filter, you're good to go and you're gonna be spacefaring forever. It like puts up an idea that the Universe or whatever has a mind of its own and makes a single filtering event or problem setup specifically for life which just does not make sense to me. For me, it throws in like a theistic POV like there's a hand of God blocking the way or something.

     

    Anyways, you could say that this 'Great Filter' is caused naturally but try putting yourself in the thing, there's no single specific problem in our life (as a human) that once we pass, we're 100% gonna be in good terms forever  Now that I think about it, a more plausible theory to me is that instead of one single 'Great Filter' existing rather, before something can turn into what we humans define as, "Spacefaring Civilization" or if you want, just "intelligent specie" , this thing needs to go through a lot of strenuous tests (filter) not caused by any higher mind or something but caused by its own environment before it can actually reach its end goal. And on each filter, few of it gets filtered out becoz they weren't just 'fit' enough. 

    ah, what's wrong with a little faith, every once in a while? you seem utterly opposed to theology, but remember that science is just as reliant on faith as religion is. 

     

    perhaps there are multiple barriers, but it seems more likely that there's just one. if we assume multiple, our existence as a species is very very lucky, and i don't think we're that lucky, do you? and perhaps it might seem to you that the universe has a mind of its own (and it does in a way, quantum entanglement is one good example), but it doesn't seem that way to me.

     

    Plus, please stop saying "How could this or that not do this or that? It doesn't make sense". For me, the argument is already using a subjective truth, It doesn't mean that if it doesn't make sense to us humans it's also the same for the alien species and vice versa. We have never met an alien civilization to say that it's the general truth. It's just like saying that if I like chocolate then everyone also likes chocolates.

    then you stop with the generalities and hypotheticals, and we'll talk. 

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    hmm, we're not allowed to point to any particular links per forum rules, so i can't point out any for you.

     

    dctp actually has a topic on the exact same thing btw: http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?t=3481#p124081

     

    apparently, a) it's hard to find and B) you won't really miss a thing by not watching it, according to the topic. if you really want to find it though, keep searching. i did a few myself and it's not showing up. good luck!

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    Actually, I was searching around the net and found this article which IMO, is a great answer to the Fermi Paradox (It doesn't directly answer it but it gives you the idea): Why aliens might have a differenting understanding of the universe

    that's a terrible answer to fermi. actually, that's not even an answer. the fermi paradox is all about extraterrestrial life, or specifically, the lack of it, at least from our perspective. i fail to understand how the fact that aliens might have a different understanding of the universe explains that. it's not about whether they see the universe differently, it's about the fact that we can't seem to find any dang aliens.

     

    on a side note, the article is a little weak on the wording. it's not "might", it's "will". mathematically speaking, the possibility of a species evolving to be basically identical to humans is 0.

     

    As the article states, aliens might have a different understanding of their surrounding and also, have a different logic than us humans have (depending on the environment they evolved on). So it raises the question, what if some of the intelligent out there just simply don't want to travel the space? It may seem illogical to us but to them it is logical. Who knows? Some of the aliens might have evolved a fear of the void/dark because of the environment they are in or some evolved to live and thrive underground that they don't even know that space exists. There's just many possibilities brought by evolution which greatly reduces the possibility of spacefaring intelligent species.

     

    And, if you add the other variables to the equation (like how much time it takes to evolve from not-so intelligent specie to a human-intelligent like specie which is also non specific since mutations happens randomly; how long it takes to travel space; the rate and pattern of technology advancement of an intelligent specie; chances of an intelligent specie from being eradicated by its own kind or other external factors before even reaching a great amount of stellar traveling capabilities etc. etc.) It really super minimalizes the chances of space-age aliens around us.

    speaking of evolution, humans are basically the pinnacle of Earth's evolutionary process. and we're pretty expansionist. basically all species on our planet live to spread. you can spout all these hypotheticals but i'd advise you to look at our planet for a second, and consider the evidence we can garner from there. evolution seems to select for species that are expansionist. it's a recurring trend on our planet and its lifeforms.

     

    also, i fail to understand how any sentient species with the capability of being space-faring would choose not to. that would mean restricting themselves to a finite set of resources, which will ultimately lead to the downfall of their species. you need stuff to survive, and they're gonna run out of stuff, which means they aren't gonna survive. that's not logically sound, regardless of how aliens might see things.

     

    there's simply no reason not to go to space. unless we're missing something critically important regarding the conditions on other planets - and we have no evidence thus far to suggest so - any sentient species should seek out expansion into outer space, and we should have seen evidence of this at some point. the problem is that we haven't, and that's fermi. the great filter happens to explain this discrepancy by showing how difficult intelligent life is, and in the face of this overwhelming contradiction, this is really the only explanation imho.

     

    finally, mole people lol. we're scared of the dark/void, it's a psychological thing brought by our own species's upbringing - there are predators out in the dark, and you don't wanna get eaten, and you can't see in the dark, and sight is one of our main senses. even so, we seem to have a sense of curiosity in exploring what's beyond our planet, even though what's out there is far worse than anything we can face on our planet. so when you say aliens might have evolved a fear of the dark, that's us, trying to shine a light into the darkness.

     

    (Whoa. I just sounded really geeky their for a second :P)

    wow what a nerd

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    Ahh, you were that kid in college who set off the dorm's fire alarm at 3 am the night before finals because you forgot to add water before microwaving your instant mac and cheese, weren't you?

    i have no idea what you're talking about. :V

    srsly tho mac and cheese is nasty it's like yellow sludge.

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    You're quite the careless person, aren't you Mohoroviccio? d:

    i literally have no idea how it happened. i was making some stuff and then there was a curtain of flame. i was fast enough to extinguish it, but damn.

     

    my kitchen's a mess though, i have no idea how to handle that ;-;

    On the bright side

    You werent hungry

    i swear that burger was charred. that's classic irony right there.

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    the whole thing about passive voice in scientific reports is actually something that's bothered me for a bit. the whole bit about semi-passive voice was super silly, though, so the net seriousness was zero.

     

    So, just heard that NASA confirmed that Water exists on mars, as real flowing water this time not just ice. Artcle here and here. As the article said, this increases the chances of microorganisms existing in mars since as we all currently know, water is one of the ingredient of life.

    as a stalwart believer in the great filter, that is incredibly distressing news.

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    i set my kitchen on fire this evening. that wasn't very good.

     

    then i had to go out to eat because i couldn't use the kitchen. that wasn't very good either.

     

    glad that the whole place didn't burn down, oh god.

     

    But it really is a thing

    AND ITS A GREAT THING, WHY WOULD I LIE ABOUT SUCH AN UNDER-APPRECIATED HOLIDAY

    nooooooooooooooooooo

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    Uh, so I guess I rolled an ENFP-T.

     

    The E is a bit of a shocker (but only 10%, so close to the cusp). Everything else lines up, though, and they're all pretty far out there (prospecting at a whopping 90%, living the dream!).

     

    ENFPs are people-people, and as far as the workplace is concerned, this quality shows through best among colleagues. More than just coworkers, ENFPs view their colleagues as friends, people who they take a genuine interest in, providing support and cheer when they're down or stressed.

    ahahahahaha good one my workspace is awful

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