Humans are entirely predictable. Humans only exhibit a limited range of behavior. Even the way they build their dwellings and exploit their environment is boringly predictable. It's very much like when a geologist looks at a crystal and know almost instantly what kind it is. Diamonds grow a certain way, emeralds have a distinct pattern, rubies, sapphires, quartz. Bacterial or fungal growth is the same way. Different strains form distinct patterns that is very apparent to people who study them.

The so called "human intelligence" is the same way. It follows very predictable patterns. It might seem like people are actually thinking and making decisions rationally, but in fact they aren't. It's no more than an expression of a narrow range of possibilities from which they can never break out. Your anger is well within this constraint. Your rigid and limited thought process is a classic signature of "human intelligence". Your belief that there is a shepherd up there in the heavens... also a hallmark of being human. Never mind that UP is pointing in a different direction at any given moment. Believe me the sooner you humans accept that you have no intelligence, the better off you will be. Here in Ork there are still remnants of people like you earthlings (that is what you call yourselves right) but most of us have gotten past that... good luck to you all... farewell.

Oh yeah... we hacked your computers looooong ago.

Mork

In response to Mork from Ork or Zonk or whatever cave-men name you are giving yourself today or in the future:

If there is one thing that is deterministic or predictable in this world about human behaviour than it is the reaction of an uninformed-never-read-a-descent-book-on-the-subject sceptic who thinks he's all ratio. Hohaaa !!!

Yeah man !!! Your DNA tells me that tomorrow you are going to have peanut butter on your bread and not cheese. Then you'll pour about a quarter of a litre of milk over your cereal and go to your job (you have a job do you !?), all because some deterministic law made you do this (we haven't found such a law yet do we, tell me, I'm at the tip of my chair !!!).
Let me tell you something about science in case you didn't know: science is all about a theory that describes the world in the best way it can, UNTIL a better theory comes up who either disproves the old theory or showed that the old theory needed some tweaking. My emphasis is on two things. One is the fact that theory with age can turn out to be wrong. Two is the word DESCRIBES or DESCRIPTION. Science doesn't say anything about the ultimate meaning of the world. It is merely a description which stands as long as there is no experimental proof to disprove it. It doesn't say anything about the real world. It only puts you in front of bigger more profound questions that make you scratch your head even harder. My gut tells me you never experienced such a thing. You first and foremost simply don't grasp the difference between physics and metaphysics, do you ? You are entering the domain of metaphysics with your bullocks about "human behaviour is quantifiable in the macro scale. Including (y)our resistance to it". You made me smile today, really !!!! Were did you pick that up ??

Let's return to Subject A again, because you are again crying about Topic Z all the time. I certainly hope that this is going to be a profitable multi-million or multi-billion endeavor. It will only work more in favor of the mindset that most people have in this blog. It certainly isn't going to ridicule the existence of extraterrestrial life on This planet. Man, wake up !!

Hear what you are saying. Does your little theory "It's all about the money" prove anything that alien life is possible or not. Man, you wondered into a forest you don't know anything about and now you're yelling about intelligence. And let me tell you something else, if we as humans were to spring from pure evolution, from mud to humans as a matter of speaking, then statistically speaking, it is inevitable that We Are Not Alone, as other people tried to explain you. Don't you read anything on this website ??? Don't you read about the possible existence of water on Mars en maybe cellular life. Let me schine a light, so can get out of your mess.

So please continue saying 'No' to this and everybody and having THE final word in this blog, it will only mean one thing: Everybody just got bored with your small ideas that you probably picked up somewhere in high school.

It stands a fact now that only one person felt attacked. Did you ever consider that fact ?

If is is any comfort, I might not love you, but Jesus does, he certainly does You have one friend in high places.

I'm signing off from this blog, It's too much a waste of time to talk about metaphysical issues with such hardheaded people.

So just "talk to the hand" if you want to respond.

Stijn
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And a warm goodbye to all the rest.

Please do tell us about these erudite "DESCENT" books! Should have used the spell checker on that one. Your fellow earthlings might respect you a little more. SKEPTIC
is spelled with a K while we're at it.

Come back when you learn how to spell.

Probably can't tell teh difference between DECENT and DESCENT

Zornk

Arguments about spelling are about as low as you get in this digital world. If you do not have the comprehension to understand context then that's a personal problem. Do you also mock people that stutter or have speech difficulties? Has anyone complained to hawking that since he cannot talk he has no idea what he is talking about?

Contentrate on what's important.

I agree with the tourist attraction concept, because it will indeed generate hype and money. It also has potential for actual research if done right. There are numerous things that we do not know about, and putting money into any of them (because there is plenty of money to go around if they can spend on this) is never a truly bad thing.

- Amok

Unless its homeopathy

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Here in Ork there are still remnants of people like you earthlings (that is what you call yourselves right) but most of us have gotten past that... good luck to you all... farewell.