I am no expert on this, i am not religious, i have no idea if we are alone or not. i tend to think that the universe is so incredible huge that everything is possible. but we will probably never find out because of the speed of light we can always just look back in time while a whole civilization could exists just around the corner - more or less.
but - one of those things that make me wonder comes from the bible, old testament. i mean, that book already exists a very long time, it's not that someone smuggled that into the bible in 1969 when he took too much LSD.
In the book of Ezekiel it says:
Quote:
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north?an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.
10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 13 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
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more:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...r=1&version=31
the question is: how much fantasy can someone have a few thousand years ago to imagine something that to our understanding technically could not have existed at that time. Was he someone like Jules Verne? did he smoke the wrong stuff? or wtf is he talking about?