Thread: Extra-terrestrials?

i will admit that i watched a Roswell documentary and found it very interesting. the people that lived there and had first hand accounts of what they saw where what really made me think. if anyone can find a documentary on it, it is well worth watching in my opinion.

do i believe in aliens. yes. do i think the government(whichever government, you pick) is covering up the evidence. yes. they have covered up many things in the past, when it was easy to do, now a days it would be harder but i wouldn't put it past them.

i would love to see a UFO. i think it would be scary but extremely exciting at the same time. i have an 8 inch reflector telescope that i get out every so often and check out the stars. very relaxing. it is crazy how many satellites are up there and can pass infront of your view. the moon is crazy.

Put me in the dis-believer category. Here's why.
I don't think there is intelligent life on any other planet in our solar system. If there isn't, then I don't believe there is any physical possibility of another civilization being able to traverse the vast amount of space it would have to travel from another solar system. We're talking waay too many light years away for physical travel to be possible. So I think it's really just a case that we're literally too far away from any other intelligent civilization for them to be able to visit the earth. (And if they did, why would they act in the type of goofy behavior that is routinely ascribed to "alien visitors"? And isn't it quite odd that after the advent of video recorders, there don't seem to be much around in terms of qualitiy citings caught oin video?)

Government cover up? I doubt it.
Unidentified flying objects? sure, but its anybodies guess as to whether they are aliens controlling these things or imagination, or real objects from earth never identified, Or any other number of possibilities.
Life on other planets or places in our universe? Why not? It is a big universe. We may never know for sure.

I don't think there's any government coverup, if aliens had the technology for interstellar travel than they would certainly have the technology to stay hidden. If there are aliens watching us than that's likely all they are doing, like a nature program.

I doubt they would want to interact with us, as I am not a lifeform capable of interstellar travel and yet I find human interaction quite boring and predictable most of the time, and all too often dangerous.

So maybe the lights in the sky are a bunch of interstellar Steve Irwins flying around sticking their fingers in our cloacas, but I doubt it.

Carl Sagan certainly believed that we are not alone. Billions and billions....

More and more exoplanets are being discovered, some suggesting the presence of life supporting elements, and now the Kepler mission, the possibilities are interesting.

The idea that we are the only occurrence of life in a vast universe of millions of galactic systems each containing millions of galaxies, seems a bit far fetched. Then, when one considers the possibility of multiple universes, the possibilities are even more mind boggling.

Breaking away from our anthrocentric tendencies, have you considered that we, in fact, are the extra-terrestrials relative to some other sentient culture somewhere else in the cosmos? Maybe they are wondering if we exist?

In the movie Jurasic Park, Jeff Goldblum's chaos theory character comments on the folly of bringing back creatures that were separated from man by 65 million years. Maybe there is a good reason that we are separated from other civilizations by 65 million light years? (Andromeda is only 2.5 million light years away, and closing...).

Something to consider.



Scott

I think there might be bacterial and possibly plant life elsewhere, but nothing beyond that. Certainly no intergalactic oppressors with unimaginable technology.

I believe in unidentified flying objects, having seen some weird stuff. However, I firmly believe the government or private companies working for the government are behind these. Can you say F-117?

That being said, if there are in fact aliens doing sexual experiments on humans, I hope and pray that they all look like Jeri Ryan.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

I think there might be bacterial and possibly plant life elsewhere, but nothing beyond that. Certainly no intergalactic oppressors with unimaginable technology.

Why not? Let's assume that there are billions of planet that harbor simple single or multicell life.
That means that small animals are possible too.
That means intelligent life is possible too.

Now, they may not visit us, but that doesn't mean anything. We haven't alpha centauri either, but clearly we exist. And even if we get access to intergalactic space travel, it's not like we can go out and visit every single planet and say ''s up?!'

EDIT: as for technology. if you were to go back in time even a mere 200 years, could you realistically describe our technology to a person of that era?
Technological evolution is stil going exponentially, and it is safe to say that it wil have evolved dramatically by the time I retire.

So while it is human to say that 'we have now reached the summit', it's a false premise. It's simply a result of the fact that we cannot comprehend what still lies in waiting

Not so long ago, scientists were convinced that all of physics had been explained, and that it was now only a matter of formalizing and hammering out the details. And then that lone patent clerk comes up with relativety and suddenly we are back to square one. Then a couple of other blokes come up with quantum physics, which of absolutely no use at the time, but which has given us all the electronics that we have today.

Suppose an alien civilization started life as single cell orgs together with us.
If they retain 1000 years of head start (a pittance on a billion year scale) then by now, they wil be the intergalactic oppressors. or at least they could kick our ass if they found us

Originally Posted by Bruno

Why not? .
but clearly we exist.

Are you certain? Could I not be a figment of your imagination? Or vice versa?

Hey, if this were my imagination at work, I would be king of the world, and surrounded by lots of scantily clad gorgeous women, willing to obey my every command.

Instead, I am on a message board, replying to a rapidly balding man

Originally Posted by Bruno

Hey, if this were my imagination at work, I would be king of the world, and surrounded by lots of scantily clad gorgeous women, willing to obey my every command.

Instead, I am on a message board, replying to a rapidly balding man

Hey! Don't talk about my head would you?