Belief in extraterrestrials...

[painted wolf]

That is still a dominant global power.... a world government doesn't have to be nice. (and I never said it did... just that it had to exist to marshal the resources needed for such an endeavor.)

wa:do

 

[Smoke]

While I do not personally believe in aliens, outside of movies, I also do not rule out the possibility that they could exist. Space is an awfully large place and I think it is a bit arrogant of us to assume that we are the only ones, though that kind of thinking does tend to make some people feel more special than perhaps is wise.

I think it's extremely likely that there is life elsewhere in the universe, and extremely unlikely that any of it has anything to do with reported alien encounters.

 

[arthra]

That is still a dominant global power.... a world government doesn't have to be nice. (and I never said it did... just that it had to exist to marshal the resources needed for such an endeavor.)

wa:do

Say this discussion is becoming pretty lively! If our own experience is any yard stick (and the only yard stick we have available?) I would agree..that is, our current endeavours require international cooperative efforts.

- Art

 

[mimidotcom]

Ah Aliens... this is one of my favorite topics... lol I love debating about life on other planets and that sort of thing. I do believe there is life on other planets. The way people describe "aliens" though is kind of silly. Little green men... gray men... whatever. I think they are another human form. I definitely do not believe us to be the only living creatures in the universe. I think people are very selfish if they do not think something else can be out there.

definitely one of my favorite topics too.. but with me.. religion and alien are one and the same.. i have no problem thinking that the gods of the ancients were aliens.. anytime u wanna talk ET.. im down!!

 

[Sunstone]

Really?
It took on the average about 30 years a pyramid, and probably around 30,000 total laborers, professional planners, architects, and slaves (specifically for the largest known pyramid the great Pyramid of Khufu).
Archeologists know pretty well how the ancient Egyptians harvested and moved the stones; the Egyptians were skilled artisans, architects and mathemeticians. The pyramids were the result of an intelligent culture, slave labor, planning and several decades of steady work. Nothing extraterrestrial about it.

Not to mention the aliens who built the pyramids would have traveled across light years to reach us, but failed to utilize the true arch.

 

[Ukonkivi]

If had no experiences, that I'm aware.
But I can't see how it's logical to assume they don't exist.

It would really be quite surprising if Earth was so unusual and unique as to be the only planet with life.

 

[nonbeliever_92]

I believe that most likely there are organisms outside of earth, but I don'tbelieve that they've visited earth.

 

[te_lanus]

i believe they exist, as i have seen ufo's and have had personal experience with aliens.

 

[nonbeliever_92]

if you say so.

 

[arthra]

Maybe we are the "aliens" ... the cromagnon species?

The origins of the Cro-Magnons’ complex cognitive abilities—which they exhibited virtually from the first moment of their occupation of Europe—are unknown. The most ancient indications of complex symbolic behaviors come from sites in Africa close to 100,000 years old, and the archaeological record in between is very thin. Without question, the Cro-Magnons provide us with the most dramatic evidence we have of the arrival of full-fledged modern human sensibility.

Source:

Cro-Magnons - MSN Encarta

But there was also a tantilizing specie of lizard with a large cranial capacity and opposable digits that were on earth long before Cromagnon..

Russell had discovered the first Troodontid skull, and noted that, while its EQ was low compared to humans, it was six times higher than that of other dinosaurs. If the trend in Troodon evolution had continued to the present, its brain case could by now measure 1,100 cm3; comparable to that of a human.[3] Troodontids had semi-manipulative fingers, able to grasp and hold objects to a certain degree, and binocular vision.[3]

Source:

Reptilian humanoid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodontidae

Troodontids had unusually large brains among dinosaurs, comparable to those of living flightless birds. Their eyes were also unusually large, and pointed forward, indicating that they had very strong, binocular vision. The ears of troodontids were also unusual among theropods, having extremely enlarged middle ear cavities, indicating acute hearing ability.

The possibilities of sentient beings not necessarily humanoid seem pretty likely..

 

[katiafish]

YouTube - Night Of The Orbs

I dont see what is there to not believe in? Are we actually as arrogant as to suggest that there is no intelligent life outside of our planet in a whole of the Universe?:sarcastic

:rainbow1:

 

[Caladan]

YouTube - Night Of The Orbs

I dont see what is there to not believe in? Are we actually as arrogant as to suggest that there is no intelligent life outside of our planet in a whole of the Universe?:sarcastic

:rainbow1:

There is a difference though between theoraizing about life outside earth and across the universe and between physical evidence of encountering some of these life forms on our planet.

 

[katiafish]

Perhaps.

 

[MSizer]

I think that it is ridiculous to think that our planet happens to be the only one in the entire universe to host life. There are hundreds of billions of stars per galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies. It's nuts to fail to recognize the improbability that we're the only intelligent life. However, there is certainly no evidence that any have made any sort of contact with earth, and if you think it has happend, you're more deluded than those who think we're the only smart life.

 

[England my lionheart]

The odds are surely in the favour of there being life elswhere but there isn't any concrete evidence that any have visited us as Msizer says but any Alien capable of getting here would have to be so advanced of us that perhaps we are'nt considered worthy of their time and effort.


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[katiafish]

I think that this hypothesis is limited to the notion that the aliens would be physical creatures. It doesnt require an incredible leap of imagination to consider a possibility that aliens could quite easily be purely energetical entities, in which case it would not take them any effort whatsoever to visit this planet.

:rainbow1:

 

[Minus Habens]

Me and a friend of mine saw a red orb zoom accross the sky. About ten minutes later, 3 helicopters zoomed across the sky in the same direction. The orb had no tail, and was definitely not a commet, and I have never observed any commercial or military aircraft that looks like a red orb... Was it a UFO? Yup... Aliens? Who knows. There were many people who saw triangular shaped UFOs.... It turned out to be the stealth bomber...

I guess to sum it all up, I believe there are other intelligent beings in the Universe, but I don't necessarily believe we have been visited. Too bad the poll is closed.

 

[nonbeliever_92]

You know what I hate. When people see Unexplained Flying Objects and call them aliens. It's like when people experience a "miracle" which is simply something that they just don't understand or is unexplained and call it Jesus or god's work or something else paranormal or supernatural like ghosts. Or calling the mystery of the origins of the universe god. If it's unexplained or a mystery don't give it an "explanation" that you just made up!!!

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Odds are, aliens exist somewhere. However, I don't believe that they have contacted Earth, and I have doubts that they are even intelligent. Given the vast size of the universe, it's possible that there are intelligent aliens, but they'd be too damn far away to matter. Also given that the size of the universe is finite, it could very well be true that we're alone in intelligence.

I dunno...

If intelligent life, including our own, figures out how to bend time and space for galactic travel, they could explore the entire universe freely, taking what they want (assuming that they have advanced weapons systems, too).

I don't think that such a species would be interested in peaceful interactions with us, but who knows... such beings would be intelligent enough to do what they want with us.

Current UFO "encounters" are "all too human" and reflect humanity more than anything alien.

 

[cardero]

angellous_evangellous writes: Current UFO "encounters" are "all too human" and reflect humanity more than anything alien.

Except in this aspect...

I don't think that such a species would be interested in peaceful interactions with us, but who knows... such beings would be intelligent enough to do what they want with us.