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Just a little curious what others think. I've been addicted to strange shows about these topics lately. Possibly just too much time on my hands!

What do you believe in the possibility of... check all that apply. multiple choice
	Aliens
	Ghosts
	ESP or psychic abilities
	Past lives and reincarnation
	Time travel
	Robots taking over the world
	Half man/ half beast creatures
	Magic spells and curses
Votes accepted starting: 08/02/11 01:32 PM
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Time travel is possible and not too far fetched. If we could approach the speed of light in a space craft, it's possible to see deep into the future on the return trip back to earth. Even without waiting on traveling at the speed of light, it's all about relativity. Heck, isn't that one cosmonaut that spent the most time in space 3 seconds in the future? So in that respect, probably.

Heck, I'd like to start a whole threadsworth of discussion on what time even is. It's really a tough subject to define.

Do you remember the name or channel it was on? I have a hard time believing in that, probably bc I don't understand the theories behind it very well.

I believe in the possibility of anything. The likelihood of things is another matter.

It was called "Stephen Hawking's Univerise" I believe.

I don't know if I believe in any of this stuff. I probably believe in Aliens/UFO's the most only because it'd be pretty ignorant to think that in this giant universe, we're the only living beings.

Ghosts? I don't know. I love watching Ghost Hunters on syfy, but I always take all their evidence with a grain of salt, just as they pretty much ask you to do. It's not forced. It's pretty much the attitude of "hey we went into this building used our equipment, and here's what we found"

I've never seen a ghost, never thought I had seen a ghost. I've never seen an alien or spacecraft, but I do believe that they exist and sure maybe they've visited.

I have a hard time believing in time travel, only because of the way I see things. Like I just typed out this post. How could I possibly go back to that moment?

I won't say that I shoot any of those options down as not being real/possible, but I just don't know if I can truly put 100% belief into them.

I gotta say no on the magic spells though. I'm a Cleveland fan and I don't even believe in curses.

Aliens
Little green men? I dunno, but like somebody said, we can't be the ONLY ones out here can me? Even if there's a planet full of dogs...

Ghosts
No.

ESP or psychic abilities
I can never take a psychic seriously...

Past lives and reincarnation
No.

Time travel
If it were possible, somebody would have come back in time already...

Robots taking over the world
I heard they're working on the Skynet Beta program...

Half man/ half beast creatures
Yes. Peyton Hillis.

Magic spells and curses
Only against teams I root for...

I should have made an option for "none of the above". Sorry, didn't cross my mind until it was too late.

Personally, I believe 100% in the first four. The others are 50/50. Except for the robot thing... total crap imo.

I tried to click submit without checking a box...

November Gulf...

Aliens... Probably. It's hard for me to believe that in the vastness of the universe that we are the only little rock with life on it.

Ghosts - No. (Angels yes.. go figure. )

ESP or psychic abilities - Given the small amount of our brain that we actually use, I think this might be possible if we could figure out how to turn the rest of it on.

Past lives and reincarnation - No.

Time travel - No.

Robots taking over the world - This is man made so it will get as bad as we let it get. And I try never to underestimate how badly man can screw things up.

Half man/ half beast creatures - With DNA and genetic research, we could probably make one, but does one exist in nature? No.

Magic spells and curses - No. (But I believe in the power of prayer, so again... go figure. )

I know it's possible that time advances when travelling at the speed of light. Would communication technology work to the point of being able to communicate from the future?

How does it advance to something that hasn't happened yet?

Aliens - Not that are visiting us.

Ghosts - No. Now when my ex-wife dies, maybe.

ESP or psychic abilities - I don't have it, therefore it doesn't exist.

Past lives and reincarnation - I used to be, well, nobody in particular, just like now.

Time travel - Certainly not in my lifetime, so this is a no.

Robots taking over the world - We can only hope.

Half man/ half beast creatures - I could throw in another ex-wife crack I suppose. Otherwise, no.

Magic spells and curses - No, otherwise the steelers would have pin pricks all over their bodies.

Let's see .....

Aliens? Well, if the universe is half as vast as it is supposed to be ... and we are the only life in it, that would be quite an incredible waste of creative energy. The universe doesn't seem to waste energy like that. If there is life out there. it may not even be in a form we recognize, or can comprehend. I do believe tat there is life out there somewhere.

Ghosts? Yep. I don't believe that they hang around forever, but I do believe that a spirit takes a "farewell tour" to say goodbye to its former life.

ESP? I believe this one because I believe in energy.

Thought waves are energy. We are, at our most basic level, energy. Everything is, at its most basic level, energy. Eyes convery light energy into visual sense. Ears convert sound waves (energy) into auditory sense. We perceive heat and cool based on the speed of the atoms (energy) in the object in question. Since everything is energy, why is it so hard to believe that people could have a sense of what is going on around them without direct sensory contact via the generally accepted 5 senses?

Past lives/ Reincarnation? Nope. I believe that once we leave this life we become something entirely different ...... a non corporeal being, without less and less concern for the physical world once we pass over.

Time travel? I dunno. I am not sure that such a thing could occur without the structure of time itself falling apart. Even the most careful of time travelers would cause some disruption somewhere. If we accept the butterfly effect, then a human time traveler would have a far greater impact even if he never directly interacted with anyone.

Half man/ Half beast creature? Besides GM? No I don;t believe in such things.

Magic spells/curses? Words have power. Specific phraseology and or rhythms could affect energy, and energy can impact what we perceive as the physical world. Do I think that they can destroy the world, or change one thing into another? Not really ..... but I do think that it is, at least, conceivable that the energy of a chant or "spell" could have some impact on the physical world.

j/c

I don't believe in aliens.

I didn't want to believe in ghosts/spirits - but 3 incidents have convinced me I should - and do.

ESP - maybe.

The rest of the choices? No, I don't believe in them.

ESP/psychic abilities.
That is all I believe in on that list.

Kinda interesting how widely some beliefs are held. I favor the first 4; interesting if this is based on any experiences. Have been fascinated my whole life with the UFO and related phenomena.

Can someone physical withstand lightspeed?

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but if I got on a spaceship and traveled at light speed for 6 months in one direction and 6 months back...it wouldn't be 8/3/2011 when I returned to earth.

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Right, it would be 8/3/2012 if you went 6 months in one direction and 6 months back.

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It would be 8/3/2021. I was gone 1 year but 10 years passed for everyone here.

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How has this been proven?

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To me, that's time traveling.

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Because that is time traveling. People have already done it, people living on the international space station have jumped a fraction of a second into the future.

Time moves slower among objects moving at faster speeds, relative to a statiionary/slower moving object.

Is that relative to people staying in space for a long periond of time and not aging at the same rate they would on earth...? I don't qualify that as "time travel" per say...I dunno...

i thought that was the flux capacitor.

Just wow. Makes me brain throb. Props to the presenter. So what did they up or down in Star Trek, and did it make use of or ignore or function in spite of spacetime considerations you mention. Thanks. And just wow again.

Yes, it's not true time travel as we see in movies or read in books. We won't be able to go back in time to prove Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter using GR.

Though, there are a few people way smater than me that believe it's possible. If you can agree that space doesn't disappear, that it's always here, and we know space & time are the same thing....then we can assume that all of history is still here too. That it's stored somewhere.

Maybe it's stored on a beam of light....if we could only travel far enough out to pass the light that captured what happened the day JFK got shot, maybe it's possible to use capture it and decode it. Of course, we can't travel at the speed of light or even faster than light...so it's only a thought experiment.

I'm no expert at this and I would argue I don't even know it well enough to explain it to a 6-year old (one of Albert's famous quotes)....but I try reading as much as my mind can understand on the subject. And it's not much.