Spave maps should have those ugly little aliens right after pluto with the caption "Here there be Grays! Beware!"
Now I'm thinking of Treasure Planet.
Now I'm thinking of Treasure Planet.
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I think there could well be life on other planets. Though I don't think they've visited earth.
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My thoughts:
I think that many stories of UFOs and so forth are descriptive of some type of phenomena that actually literally occurs. But I take a Vallee/Keel type approach to it. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of evidence for them being aliens, except our assumptions and sometimes their statements (though it should be noted that these "aliens" do often seem to lie!), and their actions do not seem consistent with what we would expect from aliens. Granted, aliens may be so bizzarre that we would not be able to comprehend their actions, but the ones we see are apparantly close to us in both form and mindset, and yet their actions as a whole don't make sense. They should be nothing like us or be understandable to us, but they exist in some weird area in between that seems to rule out that they are actually aliens. I think that they are just another manifestation of a phenomena that's been on Earth for quite some time. I actually take theories of them being demons or fairies more seriously than the extra terrestrial hypothesis because at least it explains a lot of their actions.
As for life on other planets I usually take a hard stance against it in arguments. My intuition tells me that there could be life out there, but I think that we don't know enough to say one way or another and it makes me mad that so many people act like it is undeniable that life exists out there. Perhaps it is, if we assume every variable. But when you get right down to it we are trying to derive a distribution from one observation, and all you can say is that it is possible that life can form on at least one planet. But it is impossible to say any more than that. Well, I guess we can say that life like us isn't everywhere because we haven't run into yet.
I think that many stories of UFOs and so forth are descriptive of some type of phenomena that actually literally occurs. But I take a Vallee/Keel type approach to it. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of evidence for them being aliens, except our assumptions and sometimes their statements (though it should be noted that these "aliens" do often seem to lie!), and their actions do not seem consistent with what we would expect from aliens. Granted, aliens may be so bizzarre that we would not be able to comprehend their actions, but the ones we see are apparantly close to us in both form and mindset, and yet their actions as a whole don't make sense. They should be nothing like us or be understandable to us, but they exist in some weird area in between that seems to rule out that they are actually aliens. I think that they are just another manifestation of a phenomena that's been on Earth for quite some time. I actually take theories of them being demons or fairies more seriously than the extra terrestrial hypothesis because at least it explains a lot of their actions.
As for life on other planets I usually take a hard stance against it in arguments. My intuition tells me that there could be life out there, but I think that we don't know enough to say one way or another and it makes me mad that so many people act like it is undeniable that life exists out there. Perhaps it is, if we assume every variable. But when you get right down to it we are trying to derive a distribution from one observation, and all you can say is that it is possible that life can form on at least one planet. But it is impossible to say any more than that. Well, I guess we can say that life like us isn't everywhere because we haven't run into yet.
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While I tend not to instantly believe stuff that requires enormous leaps of logic to be true, I do recognize that some of the reports of UFO's come from respectable, reputable sources. There is also an idea that UFO's are actually USO's--unidentified submerged objects. Some people who claim to have seen UFO's report that they actually came from a large body of water, and returned there. I actually think that that is plausible. The problem that I think really can't be explained with UFO's is how large crafts could get here fairly regularly without anybody in any of the world's space programs noticing. When I think about the noise that was made many years ago, when that comet hit Jupitor, I have a lot of trouble imagining that "Large object headed towards Earth" wouldn't make headlines in some newspaper, and spread from there.
But, with very few exceptions, we don't watch the bottoms of the oceans, and we know almost nothing about them. One line from a documentary I saw a while ago really stuck in my head. The man was looking at a critter he collected from the sea floor under a micoscope, and said that pretty much anything you find down there is all but guarenteed to be an undiscovered species.
So, I do not actively believe that there are aliens contacting Earth or that there are undiscovered colonies of intelligent life on the ocean floor, but I find the latter to be somewhat more plausible. Or, at least, less impossible.
For the most part, I'm neutral. What is, is, and eventually we will figure out what that is, or not.
Oh, but I do think that there is probably life on other planets.
But, with very few exceptions, we don't watch the bottoms of the oceans, and we know almost nothing about them. One line from a documentary I saw a while ago really stuck in my head. The man was looking at a critter he collected from the sea floor under a micoscope, and said that pretty much anything you find down there is all but guarenteed to be an undiscovered species.
So, I do not actively believe that there are aliens contacting Earth or that there are undiscovered colonies of intelligent life on the ocean floor, but I find the latter to be somewhat more plausible. Or, at least, less impossible.
For the most part, I'm neutral. What is, is, and eventually we will figure out what that is, or not.
Oh, but I do think that there is probably life on other planets.
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ummm i think aliens exist! i hope they do. i wanna hug one! i dnt think theyre all hostile things with big eyes and large brains though LOL.. possibly something like us! or the exact opposite of us! all i can say is why wouldnt one exist?
ive heard that people have seen them for quite a long time i saw a website on it not that long ago.. bt i cant find it!
heres some interesting websites actually
http://www.crystalinks.com/ufohistory.html
.. wish i could find more sites bt i cant seem to right now! LOL oh well
ive heard that people have seen them for quite a long time i saw a website on it not that long ago.. bt i cant find it!
heres some interesting websites actually
http://www.crystalinks.com/ufohistory.html
.. wish i could find more sites bt i cant seem to right now! LOL oh well
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Maybe, I'm just not that much of an Optimist. I think anyone making first contact with aliens should be very well armed, just in case. You can't tell if they're a peaceful civilization or one that will try to eat us.
Right, the perfidious Alien Menace.
This is why I think a "zap them all and let God sort 'em out" approach to alien relations might not be a bad idea.
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sure but should it be so obvious? what if they saw those arms as a threat? of course if they were not hostile they might understand why we would be cautious.
Right, the perfidious Alien Menace.
This is why I think a "zap them all and let God sort 'em out" approach to alien relations might not be a bad idea.
that might apply to those cute looking little extra terrestrial bunny rabbits, we know what they are like really.
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Poke them with a stick? That'll make 'em feel really welcome!
In the case aliens do show up, what we need to do is copy all their tech really fast. Cause generally when a superior nation (or planet) goes to a more primitive one - and they can talk love and peace all they want - its generally for profit made through trading.
In the case aliens do show up, what we need to do is copy all their tech really fast. Cause generally when a superior nation (or planet) goes to a more primitive one - and they can talk love and peace all they want - its generally for profit made through trading.
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just say its part of terran culture
amen! then we can travel the universe and populate other planets
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Blackguard_
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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Yep, I can easily imagine a certain Space Empire descending into civil war due to a drunken knife fight at TeslaZ's party.
Yep, I can easily imagine a certain Space Empire descending into civil war due to a drunken knife fight at TeslaZ's party.
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I think aliens exist. But I don't believe that Earth is the crossroads of a universal highway.
So yes to aliens.
No to the constant sightings and cow gutting.
So yes to aliens.
No to the constant sightings and cow gutting.
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Maybe Earth is where the drunken alien college kids go and people probing is their version of cow tipping or teeping someones house...
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I don't think there are aliens...why would there be? Why would God create an extraterrestrial species? There is us and only us and He loves only us. After all, if there were an alien species, did they have a Jesus goa and save them? Did they have an Adam and Eve? No. God's love is reserved for the human race, because we are the only race.
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Why wouldn't He? The universe is so big that I can't believe that there's not life on at least one other planet. Whether it's intelligent life or not I have no idea, but it certainly could be.
How do you know that?
While that's a good question, there's no way it can be answer until we encounter another alien race. They may not have a specific analogue of Jesus, but there could be another way in which God displayed His love for them in a way that would have a similar impact to them that the death of Jesus had for us.
It depends what you mean by Adam and Eve. If you mean two (or more, depending on whether they have two sexes or not) characters who form part of a story explaining the origins of the race then there's no reason why they couldn't have an Adam and Eve. If you mean two individuals who were the sole progenitors of the race, well we don't have that, so why should they?
Do you have anything do support this? You could be right, but I don't see how it's possible to make definite statements like this. There's simply no way of knowing.
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