Park Life

Yup that's part of it and something to do with wobble.

I've got the carpal thing...Can't feel me little finger on the left hand. It's eased over the last couple of days (zinc and magnesium). Shits are black mind.

Ah yes 'warp sickness'.

Oh yeah of course. Our concept of 'life' is probably laughably narrow. It wasn't so long ago creatures were discovered living in underground geezers at the bottom of the ocean bed which we thought were uninhabitable due to temp and chemical toxicity. There are microbes that 'eat' oil. Currently the main proviso for detecting habitable planets is the sweet zone (distance from sun) around distant stars ie just the temp for water to exist and size ie big enough to have an atmosphere. Yet there is a lot of talk of there being life on Europa which doesn't fit the model at all. A truly advanced civ would create its own habitats however and could live practically anywhere if it so chose. Hell it might even create habitats for life to develop randomly for a laugh. It might even giggle at increasing the spin/tamper with the core of Mars so it starts rekindling a new atmosphere.

"A machine heavier than air will never fly!" /Renton/Meenzer.

Isn't it dafter to think that hundreds of thousands of habitable planets are NOT inhabited?

We know next to nothing about the universe and physics. We've been properly at it about a 100 years. I think even in your ivory tower you might concede a civ a few hundred thousand years old might know a thing or two more than us. None of what you say detracts from the logic that very advanced civs by thier very nature are unlikely to be war mongering luddites which is my main point.

Hasn't cut it in the Bundesliga. Had a knee injury, problems with manager etc...Technically sound player, good in the air and apparently very confident.

Civs/cultures even here on earth that have relied on colonization or aggression don't tend to survive very long...America will go the same way as the Roman empire. Think you need to rethink the timescales with regard to FTL travel... It will take hundreds of years for us to even get to a decent sub-light drive say 50,000/80,000 miles per second and then it will be an anti-matter drive (we'll have to make antimatter - we can make tiny bits now) because it's hard to find/collect in the universe. A proper FTL drive will involve bending space time (like a black hole does)..That is thousands of years away. If we get there it is my belief we will have/have to overcome our aggressive and territorial tendencies cause if we haven't we won't exist. This the same for them. This is also why I believe that the visitors haven't taken over or have had any inclination to destroy us. Their civs have had to be around so long to develop the tech to get here they absolutely have to be 'top lads'.

It's argued that civilizations that have mastered beyond light speed travel have to be old enough and wise enough to have survived their own evolution. If they haven't blown themselves up then after the time it takes to master space travel (to get here) then the chances are that they are unlikely to harm us. It is my view that they will/have helped us. Massless travel at kilo-light speeds is some trick and these kinds of civs would have the technology to supply themselves/make anything they might ever need and wouldn't need to wreck us for a bit of coal etc..

They would have been at a similar stage to us at some point.

What with the age of the universe and the recently charted visible spectrum and star mass, the no of poss inhabited planets grows by the day...It must be in its hundreds of thousands already. The chance of the earth being visited is relatively high imo.

There are definitely bases on the moon.

IMO he's a 20m pound player with one good PL under his belt...That's what they'll be looking at. I reckon we'll buy him in the summer. If Cabaye leaves then this window. The players we have been linked with this window ie Zouma and so on is really pleasing as they all seem to be very promising players.

It's 12.5m euros

That looks like a cracking deal.

At least it isn't currants.

True, but no romance.

He's a cracking player mind, but not sure a Pardew type if you get my drift.

Boom!

No. That's why I said 'from what I know'..

Sorry to hear that mate.

From what I know he's very extravagant on the ball.