Extraterrestris' Ufos' aliens and other things.

[Blue Protoman]

How did antimatter get it's name? What's so special about its molecular composition?

[shadowprophet]

How did antimatter get it's name? What's so special about its molecular composition?

Sure, Antimatter, is an extention of particle physics,

Where matter is composed of particles, Antimatter is composed of antiparticles. i would recomend hitting up wikipedia, and reading a litle bit about particla physics, then reading just a little on anti particles, a mass of anti particles creat antimatter, just as positive particles create standard matter.

I mean if your interested, you wouldnt realy hve to read the entire article to get a general idea of what antimatter is, but i found it to be a good read, and just for the enjoyment of the read, i'd recomend it

[Blue Protoman]

So, in short words, antiparticles have opposite charges from regular particles?

[shadowprophet]

So, in short words, antiparticles have opposite charges from regular particles?

yeap, to the best of my understanding that is the short version of the story.

[mike_jmg]

phew!, too much reading......

This subjects are very interesting, don't know how you got from aliens to antimatter, but I like thinking about this kind of things.

I do think it is impossible that humans are the only inteligent life form in the universe.

What intrigues me the most is how alien life forms would look like, we are the result of an evoulutionary process right, but this process was kind of altered when the dinosaurs became extinct. (you know, the meteor, etc.)

So maybe they look like reptiles, birds or something inbetween, cause I don't think evolution points towards mammals, or maybe it does, I don't really know.

Would they be carbon based?, would they have iron in their blood or another metal? (there is a kind of crab that uses copper based blood, it's blue, not red as ours), would they breath oxigen?, would they be insects?

[fg-54]

ya, my friend said that aliens couldn't live in other planets cuz there was no air and i wuz like "OMG WTF! life forms don't need air to live! even in this planet there are micro organisms that don't need air!"

[Blue Protoman]

Would they be carbon based?

I read this as "cartoon based". :V

[fg-54]

lol, at first i read it as "cardboard based"

[shadowprophet]

my ps3 browser is resetting itself in mid post four times i've tried to answer mikes question, and four times i almost finish a rather lingthy post and before i post the browser just resets,

i've broken my other keyboard out of anger...
It's sad,

anyway, i'll make this short, i wish i could go into detale, but no not all forms of life need oxygen, many micro organisms dont require oxygen at all,
"brother 54 was quite correct about that"
there are lots of micro organisims living on mars at this moment as a result of our machinery there,

Also, there are a group of four chemicals that all life as we know it are dependant upon, carbon, sulfer,nitrogen phosphorus,

however those chemicals are important only because of our evolution process. other forms of life from other worlds may not be carbon based at all, even silicon based life forms have been theoretically postulated..

I would have alot more to say and post on the subject, but im gonna stop here before my browser resets again,

[pibs]

Ive been fascinated by UFO's and aliens since an early youth. But as ive grown older it seems like its just one of the greatest marketing schemes ever created, so great even government armies can use it. What really pissed me off was when they started claiming pyramids in egypt and south america were "created" or influenced by alien beings.... That in itself is a huge insult to my ancestors because it claims they where not smart enough to create such structures. Those asshats who make such claims need to take a damn history class.

Anyways I see things in a completely different way. While some might see nasa going out to mars as a good thing for humanity, I believe that money would be better well spent on creating a better infrastructure in the US. Imagine the possibilities if we had better schools, it would create more intellectuals which essentially create more efficient inventions....ahh but my ideas are too radical and knowing the goverment it would screw things up.

sorry for my poor grammar its 1am here and I really should be in bed considering I have a terrible cold.

btw SP, I remember that article on the man who got his aids cured through the transplant. That was Amazing! I hope they find a cure.

Edit: The humanoid stories from mexico scare the crap out of me, especially that police officer that got attacked by one, either that guy was a really good actor or he got the jesus scared out of him.