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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Because that would be really, really confusing, as opposed to confusing.

Seriously, Dikiyoba is getting tired of this "why third-person?" discussion. And Dikiyoba still can't understand why talking in third person is so odd. Do you have to be a moderator to do odd things without comment?

Edit: Grammer.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Because Dikiyoba can!

Sorry. That was just too tempting to resist. Actually, Dikiyoba wonders why people find it so odd. It doesn't seem too odd to Dikiyoba. Dikiyoba comes from a place where using third person for oneself is a rather common.

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Originally written by demonslaeyr:

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Originally written by *i:

Is this post serious? In case someone takes this seriously, I should respond:

1) The suggestion that Alien or Starcraft is a "pretty good guess" should be rephrased as "a wild guess". As I said before, the sample size for a large scale evolution of intelligent life experiment is exactly 1, far too few to know how likely any specific kind of life might form.

2) It is quite probable that planets like ours exist. How probable it is that life like ours evolved depends on the laws of chemistry that are far beyond our ability to understand.

3) The "theory" about Mars you suggest is not a theory in a scientific sense, it is a hypothesis; a theory is something supported by a wide body of scientific evidence. Ozone has little to do with temperature control of a planet, ozone serves to absorb certain frequencies of light, namely ultraviolet. Massive amounts of ultraviolet would not cause massive oxidation on a planet. That and there would be no 'big boom' due to that.

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Oh lord, Stareye...

1) In case anyone ELSE reads this like I'm trying to make a scientific study out of it: I'm merely pondering possibilites. Sorry... I didn't mean to have an imagination.

2) Again, I never said it was "probable". I simply stated it's a "possibility".

3) I won't go into how uptight you're being about this, but I will say this: O3=flammable, yes? Light a match in a room full of O3. You'll get a 'big boom'. (If not, then here, I'm sorry I took a shot). If you thought I was referring to the Big Boom, then shame on you. And besides, I didn't come up with it.

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Originally written by demonslaeyr:

I've always said that Alien and Starcraft have got a pretty good guess at what some types of extraterrestrials could be. The whole semi-insectoid, hyper-breeding, all-consuming thing seems so... real.

And perhaps other planets formed remarkably similar to Earth, bearing lifeforms remarkably similar to us.

There is a favorite theory of mine out there, which I love using to scare my girlfriend: the whole thing about us actually being from Mars, but destroying the ozone layer due to careless industry (or whatever) led to the charring of the world (hence the red, rust-like surface). Those smart enough escaped before the 'big boom'.

That or DooM 3 was right.

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