Do you believe in aliens?

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Yes/No
Why/WhyNot

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[Guinex]

Yes, I am one.

[Alberich]

I try not to "believe" anything - i'll leave belief to folks with religious inclinations (and neo-cons).
I'm also not sure what you mean by "alien". If the definition we're using here is "intelligent, sentient extra-terrestrial life" I'd say it's unlikely to the point of improbability that sentience has only developed in our little corner of a galaxy.
If we're talking about anthropomorphic little green men, not so much.

[13]

I think we are not the only planet with life, for the record.

[Shazuko]

mathematically, its not just possible/probable, its most likely...whether its a fungus or self-aware intelligence...
nature is efficient, and if something is no longer needed, it slowly phases out or changes those elements and structures deemed inappropriate or uneeded...the fact that there is SO much empty space between us means to >me< that there is a reason for it, that it is seperating the components of the universe with vast amounts of space for a reason, and not just for a bunch of rocks and balls of gas, otherwise it would be reducing space, instead of it STILL expanding to this day (a whole different issue)...there very well could be life so advanced that they dont even use electricity, let alone 'radio frequencies' to communicate; by the same token, there could be intelligent life out there just learning to strike a flint to steel to make fire...life can also be oxegen-producing lichens sitting on rock...I don't want to say I 'know' for sure--but I've always had a deep primordial inclination pulling at me, that says we're not the only life, whatever form it may be in...

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[Rynquald]

I think it's probable that our home at the edge of one galaxy out of billions isn't the only planet/star system with appropriate conditions to foster life, and as an extension, it's likely that organic life in some form (not nessecerially, but possibly, intelligent life) exists somewhere else besides earth.

On the other hand, I think it's almost certain that nothing besides us is alive within millions of parsecs in any direction, and our chances of ever encountering it, or even verifying the existence of life besides what resides on our own planet (Various theories about Mars' distant past with single celled organisms exempt), are extremely slim, to functionally nonexistent.

[Weasel]

Oh. I forgot. You guys still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

[firebrand]

of course i believe in aliens! may i present will/leaf as prime example?

"a worm for breakfast? yuck!" --tod --> the fox and the hound

[Akasha]

First thought that comes to mind -- "If there's nothing else out there, I'd say that's a pretty big waste of space." -- Jody Foster [i:2tw5bog7]Contact[/i:2tw5bog7]

Of course there is life out there somewhere among the billions of light years of galaxies and star systems. For us to be among the youngest of all the galaxies in existence, it's largely difficult to comprehend that other systems that are billions of years older than ours have not fostered any sort of life.

Intelligent life? For sure.
Intelligent life that is capable of space travel? Quite possible.
Why haven't they contacted us? If you monitored us (the Earth in general) and saw the violence and the majority preconception that we are the ultimate being (vanity) and the method in which the majority of the world forces its views on the rest of the world -- Not to mention the frivilous and fruitless wars over whose God is the right God and whose bellybutton lint is more valuable -- would you want to make contact with us?

I'm not the type who swears that alien abductions are real.. likely they aren't, however, I tend to believe that the story of Area 51 has plausible truths intertwined amongst the rumors and speculations. But, [i:2tw5bog7]Contact[/i:2tw5bog7] I believe is an excellent view of the type of turmoil and resistance that would be met if any facts about alien contact ever surfaced.

The very foundation unto which our little human race binds itself together could not survive the revelation that whichever God worshipped didn't just make us and say "They're perfrect, I'm done." Not to mention the possibility that our God is actually an alien that seeded life here to observe us like a vial of bacteria.

The conspiracies and counter-religious theories are limitless. I don't support any one, but as a scholar I find it is interesting to read and research these theories to gain a better perspective on life than just blindly believing what the "mass"es tell me to.

"One man is intelligent and sensible, 100 million men are a mob" -- loosely quoted again from [i:2tw5bog7]Contact[/i:2tw5bog7]

Akasha

[Weasel]

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.


Seriously, in an infinite universe, it's basically impossible that there isn't intelligent life beyond earth. Also remember that intelligent life is of course a matter of perspective.


I'd love to see friendly contact with the human race by an extraterrestrial intelligent species - perhaps the encounter would provide a sense of perspective enough to end religious zealotry and racism and greed. Wishful thinking perhaps.

[resouh]

Yes, and I would like to say "thank you" to them for taking all of the low-paying crappy jobs here in america that nobody else wanted:)

[alias]

"Yes, and I would like to say "thank you" to them for taking all of the low-paying crappy jobs here in america that nobody else wanted:) "

Thats what the indians said when we showed up. They might think different now.