Do you think if there was proof of aliens, that Mankind would come together?

Mr. Potter

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It would have to shake religious fanatics in my assumption and change these zealots as well as bigots of all races and creeds philosophical foundations of why "They're right".

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Connorpozlee

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Absolutely! Kind of like the idea of not letting other people say things about your family that you would say about them.
 

LB99

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It would have to shake religious fanatics in my assumption and change these zealots as well as bigots of all races and creeds philosophical foundations of why "They're right".

Shabbat Shalom
Nope. The same conspiracy theorists that think the moon landing was staged will call this fake news. Ironically, those same people will follow one full of lies while drinking down the lies with an insatiable thirst.
 

Midnighter

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Probably be something like this….

 
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MtNittany

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Different worlds I've visited...

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LionJim

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100% there is life on other worlds. The universe is BIG. (About one hydrogen atom per cubic meter.)
Hijacking the thread to give a cool illustration of how big infinity is. Euclid, in his Elements, Book IX, Proposition 20, proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. (Cool proof, easy.)

But:

8,9,10 three consecutive non-primes.
32,33,34,35,36 five consecutive non-primes.
212,213,214,215,216,217,218 seven consecutive non-primes.

You get the idea. Given some prime p, it’s a simple matter to find a run of p consecutive non-primes. Since there are infinitely many primes, if you choose some integer x, no matter how insanely large it might be, you can find a prime p larger than x, and thus you can find a run of non-primes which contain more than x integers. So if x is the number of seconds since the Big Bang you can find a run of x consecutive non-primes. Infinity is big.
 
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manatree

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Hijacking the thread to give a cool illustration of how big infinity is. Euclid, in his Elements, Book IX, Proposition 20, proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. (Cool proof, easy.)

But:

8,9,10 three consecutive non-primes.
32,33,34,35,36 five consecutive non-primes.
212,213,214,215,216,217,218 seven consecutive non-primes.

You get the idea. Given some prime p, it’s a simple matter to find a run of p consecutive non-primes. Since there are infinitely many primes, if you choose some integer x, no matter how insanely large it might be, you can find a prime p larger than x, and thus you can find a run of non-primes which contain more than x integers. So if x is the number of seconds since the Big Bang you can find a run of x consecutive non-primes. Infinity is big.

How does any of this improve my shipping time? Or prevent my items from being damaged with their new greener packing and shipping methods?
 
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northwoods

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We're all free to hop on the Dennis DeYoung star ship whenever it arrives. Until then, we're $37T in debt.
You have hit on my pet peeve --- the manner in which both political parties ignore the National Debt. It appears that, at least from their point of view, "we can't handle either the truth or the measures necessary to bring it down". If you have children or grandchildren and don't care about our huge National Debt you are both selfish and stupid. For anyone who is interested, my other pet peeve is eliminating a multitude of programs that assist the young, the old, the hungry, and the poor --- those often most in need ---- while insisting on retaining tax cuts for the wealthy. Not a quality of a society, IMO, to be particularly proud of these days.
 
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LionJim

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It depends. Can they play ball WR and LB and how high is their NIL price? Asking for a coach friend.
By the time they get here they’re all over 100 years old. They’d be too easy to cover on the deep routes. Plus they’ve each got ten pair of arms, they get called for holding all the time.
 
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Just this past week I watched an old Outer Limits from season 1. In the story, they were modifying Robert Culp genetically to make him into an alien. The hope was to scare mankind into coming together as one. Didn't work - they shot the alien on first sight.
 
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