Aliens?

[Imaco]

Well, what would you do if you were cruising around the universe like you do every day, and found a bunch of weird creatures somewhere that had a vastly different culture? Wouldn't you be curious? I watched the Disclosure Project press conference a couple years back and found it rather interesting. A lot of people with a lot of credentials seem to believe that aliens are real. Sure some of them are probably just along for the ride I'm sure but I think some of them were pretty believable. Say its not possible all you want, but I'll take the word of a former astronaut instead. There was a British hacker who got into US government sites and NASA and apparently found their cache of unedited photos chalk full of unedited photos. Believe that if you want, but consider that the British government gave the guy a standard penalty for nondestructive hacking and the US government demanded nothing less than extradition to make sure he never saw the light of day again.

[Parsa44]

Aliens undoubtedly exist, look at the drake equation if you want to have fun and guess how many there are. The thing is...any alien civilization who has the means to reach Earth, is smart enough to stay away. After all, why would then want to mingle with backwards, violent people like humans?

I disagree with you. A alien which can travel across space effectivley will have technology far, far superior to us humans.

Any alien would jump at the chance to interact with earth. Not only will they have acess to a whole wide new species of plants and animals which can be used for medicine, ect ect. We may have our hands on konledge that they havnt discovered yet. (very unlikley if they can travel across space effecivley like i said) But who knows?

[Teensweb]

Aliens undoubtedly exist, look at the drake equation if you want to have fun and guess how many there are. The thing is...any alien civilization who has the means to reach Earth, is smart enough to stay away. After all, why would then want to mingle with backwards, violent people like humans?

That's not true. humans may not be less violent than them just because of low technology.

[leviathon]

People believe aliens are real because their need to brake monotony of everyday life.

I'll believe in aliens when I see one. I have a lot of other things to worry about then thinking about some aliens invasion or stuff like that.

[Parsa44]

That's not true. humans may not be less violent than them just because of low technology.

Teensweb I am afraid I really disagree with that. Humans are the same if not mroe violent than they was in the iceage to now when they have thier nuclear war heads and long range missiles.

A few things you can never get rid of:

Poverty
Greed
Hate
Jelousy
Fear

And all of these cause conflict.

[ejweb]

Such topic also gets into the Biblical arena. I don't believe in aliens as in the traditionalist view. This planet was created specifically for us and no one else. Scientists are human - they error in many ways. One example is the carbon-dating process including fossilization. Unless you were actually there a few hundred or a thousand years ago - it cannot be guaranteed. If aliens are true, they should be more noticeable and in sight - given todays technology. But; you don't see or know about them. Look at Bigfoot; that was proven false many years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot...rted_sightings)...

[Parsa44]

Such topic also gets into the Biblical arena. I don't believe in aliens as in the traditionalist view. This planet was created specifically for us and no one else. Scientists are human - they error in many ways. One example is the carbon-dating process including fossilization. Unless you were actually there a few hundred or a thousand years ago - it cannot be guaranteed. If aliens are true, they should be more noticeable and in sight - given todays technology. But; you don't see or know about them. Look at Bigfoot; that was proven false many years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot...rted_sightings)...

Not meaning any offence ejweb but your post there is very closed minded and unthinking....

"if aliens are true, they should be more noticeable and in sight-given todays technology"

Let me try and put things into perspective for you.
We are located in plannet earth
There are 9 plannets in the solar system
There are 2 billion solar systems in the mily way galaxy
There are LOADS of billions of galaxys.

How far do you think our "technology can look"
1million km?
2million km?
9999999999999999999999999999999 million km?

Either way there will still be a huge portion of the universe unseen by our technology.

See this article from the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7891132.stm

[Zdroyd]

People believe aliens are real because they think there is life on other planets. The one thing I want to know is why people always think they're smarter than us just because they're not from Earth. How do you know they're not dumber than a single-celled organism?:dunno:

I'm not saying that I don't think there is life outside of Earth. But at the same time, I'm not saying I do. To be totally honest, I really don't care.

I agree with that 100% of the way. Aliens are really only any species that is new to us Humans, the word Alien should not imply higher beings... Technically when a new species is found here on earth it is considered Aliens... And we all know about our good friends the Illegal Aliens...

[Parsa44]

I agree with that 100% of the way. Aliens are really only any species that is new to us Humans, the word Alien should not imply higher beings... Technically when a new species is found here on earth it is considered Aliens... And we all know about our good friends the Illegal Aliens...

Quite true, i think there is most likley to be loads of single cell organisms or protozoa out there rather than some master technologicaly advanced species.

[leviathon]

There are 2 billion solar systems in the mily way galaxy
There are LOADS of billions of galaxys.

How do you know that's true? How do you know that's not an illusion?