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Not a bad religion don't you think. If it makes poeple do something about pollution, Gaia's my Great Mother, and I have to clean her up!;)

After going through all these posts, and considering that Chris O'Brien (who seemed like a reasonable guy) respects Stanford .... I'm just confused. Just going to wait until he's on the show, and reserve judgement until then.

Look at the place they are happening...in and around stone henge. I would like if there are aliens involved. But ancient peoples felt a need to make this place a focal point for their.... religious experiences (but it is important that that we distingish between what we see as religion nowadays...

Brilliant show. Cattle mutilations scare the shit out of me if I had to be honest. But the archetype of the trickster reasserting itself - I LOVE that idea. Perhaps in a monotheistic society, what once was the trickster becomes evil and nasty as it is relegated to the a polar opposition, godd...

That could be said of many of things we talk about on these forums

http://dancingawakethefifthworld.com/crop_circle_00_julia_six_angle.jpg Perhaps they are all fake, but IMO (and that's all it is) there is a genuine mystery, at least with some of them

Or like a continuous piece of dialogue, a conversation, in which each consecutive crop circle is another word in a long conversation. Perhaps....

I don't know! But I'm going to try to answer this one, for the hell of it;) They communicate with us in fields which are being farmed. Farming was our last major advance, in terms of making it possible for large populations being sustained, and thus for the emergence of cities and trade and...

I have always found the crop circle phenonema very interesting. There obviously have been manmade crop circles, but some are just amazingly intricate that it seems impossible that they were made by anyone in just one night. About the alien connection: who knows? Equally, who knows how aliens...

Very true. Some achievement if it is - definately marks a step up in crop circle making, whoever the crop circle makers are

Like I said, it's a very simple question, and if an answer was right in front of us, then I'm sure the paradox would disappear completely and cease to be an issue. But of course the question stands at this point in time, that is not absurd. If I said it would never, or could never be solved then...

Okay. Fair enough. That was my little flight of fancy. But life emerged here once, and how ever unlikely it was, similar conditions could exist somewhere else in the vastness of the universe. The Drake equation is a very conservative equation in the fact that it rules out binary stars, any other...

Yes, but we can easily go and find out about Lord of the Rings. The paradox may be based on simplistic assumtions, but taht in itself is a telling thing about the paradox. It CANNOT be answered at this point in time on anything based on well tested evidence. If it could, then I'd be the first...

I think that we would like to dismiss paradox by saying there are too many assumtions, but lets face it, it's a very hard one to dismiss without evidence to the contrary. I don't like it as much as the next person, but it's still a paradox which cannot be satisfactorily answered. Stephen Baxter...

Excellent post. Towards the end of the article he uses the phrase, "This crisis of causality". That for me sums it all up. People should take more time to look objectivly at this whole subject. Ironically, objectivity can breed uncertainty whena picture is incomplete (almost always). Therefore a...

I forgot to mention that the Fermi Paradox is a big aspect within the trilogy

It's class. Heavy going, a lot of descriptions of technology and such, but the characters are really good and the plot is as epic as any Sci-Fi book I've ever read. And you don't really have to read one to read the other. Without ruining it, they're linked thematically, but aren't straight...

I read a book by a guy called Stephen Baxter, a British Sci-Fi writer with a degree in physics who writes hard ScifFi, ie. everything in his novels are based on science and science speculation. He wrote the Manifold trilogy - brilliant books. Anyway, the book I read was called "Deep Future"...

Perhaps there's quite a simple explanation. Say an advanced civilisation switches to an energy based form based on pure information, with abilities far beyond anything we could experience. Such a being may be able to travel anywhere (any time?), perhaps only limited by such constants of physics...

http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=paranormal&cdn=newsissues&tm=34&gps=198_166_1003_537&f=22&su=p504.1.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.unknowncountry.com/news/%3Fid%3D7708 Forget Nancy Talbot and that couple who thought that they were made by God. This one...