Aliens

[Mock Turtle]

OK, but let me again quote Stephen Jay Gould:

... Not to mention random things that occur in evolution. We wouldn’t be here if the impact of a large extraterrestrial body hadn’t removed the dinosaurs. That wasn’t adaptation or natural selection. That was just a bad break. Mammals happened to survive because they were tiny little creatures that could hide — because they never had any evolutionary success competing with dinosaurs. And so it’s lucky that we’re even here.

It's not as if

(BACTERIA) + (BILLIONS of YEARS of "PROGRESS") = BEETHOVEN​

It is qualitatively more likely that bacteria "[p]lus the time it took for us to evolve" will result in very happy bacteria.

Quite, but we just don't know what occurs out there as to any other planet, and only basing our probability as to what we know about Earth.

 

[VoidCat]

What if aliens were real and the only ones coming to earth are the rich ones? Like a vacay for the alien elite

Like the elon musk of the aliens...

They not trying to take over or anything just want a vacation.

Not saying aliens or real or they on vacation. But that would make sense to me. I mean if they are like humans I can't imagine commercial space travel on earth ever being for the poor. And i can imagine if they are like humans then they may have a currency and the technology used to travel would be expensive. Perhaps only a few would be able to come. Only the top 1%

 

[Twilight Hue]

I do think the government knows more than they are letting on as it applies to non human species.

Seems more and more arguably credible people are coming out more often on the subject.

 

[Watchmen]

Based on what I've personally witnessed and the evidence I've seen and heard over the years, I'm more inclined to believe that the accounts of UFOs and UAPs are true. To be honest, it seems implausible to me that humans are the only sentient beings in the vastness of outer space, let alone the Milky Way.

Sensient life is probably out there, but it’s unlikely any of it has the means for interstellar travel.

 

[syo]

Aliens are real. They avoid humans because we are poisonous.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

I'm starting to think a lot of it has natural explanations. The hearings from Congress, rather than making me think that they're "real", actually made me further doubt it.

Regarding if it is real or not, I like the way Neil DeGrass Tyson once addressed it.... (paraphrasing)

"You know, there is such a thing as the astronomy community. Both amateurs and professionals. These are people who pretty much constantly are looking up at the sky. Yet, UFO sightings are not more numerous among this astronomy community then in the rest of the population. In fact they are much much lower... Why is that? Well.... BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THE F WE ARE LOOKING AT!"


Indeed, if there really were UFO's (in the sense of alien spacecraft) in the sky to be spotted in the first place, you 'ld think that the astronomy community would spot MORE of them then the general population, considering the amount of time they spend looking up as opposed to the general population.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Regarding if it is real or not, I like the way Neil DeGrass Tyson once addressed it.... (paraphrasing)

"You know, there is such a thing as the astronomy community. Both amateurs and professionals. These are people who pretty much constantly are looking up at the sky. Yet, UFO sightings are not more numerous among this astronomy community then in the rest of the population. In fact they are much much lower... Why is that? Well.... BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THE F WE ARE LOOKING AT!"


Indeed, if there really were UFO's (in the sense of alien spacecraft) in the sky to be spotted in the first place, you 'ld think that the astronomy community would spot MORE of them then the general population, considering the amount of time they spend looking up as opposed to the general population.

If I recall correctly, this is a very close paraphrase of the argument found in Intelligent Life in the Universe by Shklovskii and Sagan.

 

[ChristineM]

Warning. Scary happenings on camera.

Did aliens take this car...