Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[Houdini Logic]

Snapping spaghetti makes sense in every possible way

[Blarmy]

26 minutes ago, Houdini Logic said:

Snapping spaghetti makes sense in every possible way

Agreed. I always break it in half. Easier to combine with the sauce, easier to eat, easier to cook without a specific spaghetti pan. People who don’t break spaghetti are losers.

[bovril]

I find I don't get a decent fork full when I snap it in half, and it looks better when normal length

[Wymsey]

Aliens and the Loch Ness monster don't/didn't exist.

[The Bear]

I always break it in half too. Makes it fit in the pot easier and makes less mess when eating. 

[Zear0]

It's nearly impossible to snap spaghetti in half.

 

Liars!

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, Houdini Logic said:

Snapping spaghetti makes sense in every possible way

 

[SpacedX]

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

Aliens and the Loch Ness monster don't/didn't exist.

 

Actually, given the vast size of the cosmos the overwhelming probability is that alien lifeforms, and sentient beings (not simply single celled organisms) absolutely do exist - it's just vanishingly unlikely that they ever have or ever will visit this planet throughout our civilisation or its existence. 

[worthosoriginals]

Undisputable proof of nessie

[Sampson]

2 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Aliens and the Loch Ness monster don't/didn't exist.

I don’t think it’s very unpopular that the Loch Ness monster doesn’t exist. 
 

If we were alone in universe as big as ours that’s a very frightening thought and seems extremely unlikely that aliens don’t exist to me. There are just so many stars, planets and moons out there that aliens are almost certain to exist somewhere, whether we ever find them is another matter.

Edited 13 January by Sampson

[Daggers]

4 minutes ago, Sampson said:

I don’t think it’s very unpopular that the Loch Ness monster doesn’t exist. 
 

If we were alone in universe as big as ours that’s a very frightening thought and seems extremely unlikely that aliens don’t exist to me. There are just so many stars, planets and moons out there that aliens are almost certain to exist somewhere, whether we ever find them is another matter.

Here's frightening for you then - they've not been in touch because we're the most intelligent life form.

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Here's frightening for you then - they've not been in touch because we're the most intelligent life form.

...the Great Filter?

 

One of a number of possibilities, yes.

 

[leicsmac]

On topic though, I will happily lay good money that humanity will find simple microbial life even in our own Solar System in the next fifty years.

[Dunge]

I think it’s very likely we’re the most intelligent/technologically advanced lifeform in our galaxy. I believe there would be some kind of evidence if we weren’t.

 

Besides, the combination of Earth size, Earth density, Earth atmosphere, Earth magnetic field, plentiful presence of water, long-living sun, Jupiter as a guard, moon just the right size to gently stir the pot and general good fortune might well make us very rare indeed - at least as intelligent life.

[FoyleFox]

3 hours ago, Daggers said:

Here's frightening for you then - they've not been in touch because we're the most intelligent life form.

I'm beginning to doubt that to be true. 

[The Bear]

2 hours ago, Dunge said:

I think it’s very likely we’re the most intelligent/technologically advanced lifeform in our galaxy. I believe there would be some kind of evidence if we weren’t.

 

Besides, the combination of Earth size, Earth density, Earth atmosphere, Earth magnetic field, plentiful presence of water, long-living sun, Jupiter as a guard, moon just the right size to gently stir the pot and general good fortune might well make us very rare indeed - at least as intelligent life.

There might be complex life out there currently evolving in our galaxy but it just hasn't had the time to reach advanced civilisation yet. We evolved in around 4 billion years, which is only about 1/3 of the age of the universe. And it took 3 billion of those just to go from simple single celled life to more complex structures which could then eventually evolve into something more advanced. 

 

Add that to the stability issues you mention of potential solar systems and it could be unlikely that there's been enough time for anything like us to evolve yet and we've just been the lucky ones who've done it (relatively) quickly. 

 

It's highly likely that simple microbial life is abundant throughout the galaxy though. It just rarely gets the chance or enough time to progress. 

[ozleicester]

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.”
D Adams.

edit- fixed to get original

Edited 14 January by ozleicester

[Jon the Hat]

8 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

On a stretch of road in the country, there is a pothole. Once during April, there was a a great downpour, followed by several cloudy days of drizzle. Because of this, there was a puddle in the pothole. The puddle was very jovial, and felt happy just to be alive!
 

It looked around; both at itself, and the pothole; then it exclaimed: "Wow! This pothole is amazing! It's shaped exactly right for me to live in!". Seeing this, the happy little puddle thought to itself: "What are the chances that I would wind up in a pothole shaped exactly the right way for me? Why, the chances are so small, someone must have designed it for me! I must be special!" 

Sentient puddles are certainly an alarming prospect.  I wonder if we would necessarily even recognize the form life might take elsewhere in the universe. 

[Sampson]

11 hours ago, Dunge said:

I think it’s very likely we’re the most intelligent/technologically advanced lifeform in our galaxy. I believe there would be some kind of evidence if we weren’t.

 

Besides, the combination of Earth size, Earth density, Earth atmosphere, Earth magnetic field, plentiful presence of water, long-living sun, Jupiter as a guard, moon just the right size to gently stir the pot and general good fortune might well make us very rare indeed - at least as intelligent life.

I disagree. 
 

Humans have not even travelled to the nearest planet yet and barely made themselves known in Alpha Centauri, 1 solar system over yet. The Milky Way has between 100,000,000,000-400,000,000,000 stars for reference. We’re still a long way off really making ourselves known in other solar systems. And any radio waves take thousands of years to travel to the other side of the Milky Way and then back again - and in the telescope we’re looking at stars and planets on the other side of the Milky Way as they were 1,000 years ago not today. 
 

A more advanced civilisation than humans may still also not have left their solar system yet. I still think the odds are way in the favour of their being many planets with more “advanced” life and technology than on Earth within the Milky Way.

[leicsmac]

At this point, I would very much care to direct inquisitive folks to the Wiki entry for the Fermi Paradox.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 

It has a wealth of fascinating information on this topic.

[Sampson]

8 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

At this point, I would very much care to direct inquisitive folks to the Wiki entry for the Fermi Paradox.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 

It has a wealth of fascinating information on this topic.

Yes kurzgesagt have done a couple of good videos on it too

 

 

[Daggers]

I want to see a load of owners do a Dai Yongge and a swathe of professional clubs fold. 
 

Nothing changes until everything changes. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

FoxesTalk is funnier when we're terrible 

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

FoxesTalk is funnier when we're terrible 

It's probably the only time I leave the news/pints/holidays threads

[leicsmac]

Practically all cryptocurrency schemes are pyramid schemes which are great if you have insider information or are insanely lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, and an absolute con if you don't or aren't.