Aliens...

[Anoohilator]

Think of it this way - what are the odds of there NOT being aliens out there? I'm sure that there are aliens and just cos they haven't contacted us yet (or us them) doesn't mean they don't exist. Maybe they're as technologically advanced as us - maybe a bit more but we haven't got too far in sending a message taking into account the size of the universe...

[giggleniggle]

Maybe we're the same as them. We don't know if they exist and don't have the technology to talk to them even if we did know. Maybe they're the same?

[Sugarinii]

Sugarinii! I missed ya!

I bet that's how it is, kinda like Sims, we're being controlled by alien children at this very instant xD

I've been back for, like, a month

ARRGH. Give me nightmares why don't you...

If I ever came in contact with an alien, I would go kajonk and faint.

As far as signals, things can easily be misinterreted. For all we know, aliens could have sent out messages of some sort, and we might have thought they were something else.

[NeoPet_online]

I think that they might not want to be found.... Ever think that? I mean maybe they don't want us to know about them, so they can like keep on studying us... I dunno...

[Asthaloth]

Think of it this way - what are the odds of there NOT being aliens out there?

Look at it this way.
What where the odds of Earth being formed in the tiny area where life as we understand it could exist.

What where the chances of the Impactor striking the earth at just the right time, and at just the right speed and angle to spin the earths rotation up enough for it to be warmed.

What was the chance that the random neutrino would strike at just the right moment to spark Evolution...

[alien]

(see the name?) yea i beleive... but i dont beleive in the little green toys in Toy Story... i like to thin kof them more as humanswith some slight changes

and its also cool to think about how if there is another planet out there exactly like this one (kinda...) thats thinking the same thing

[Jens]

to quote the, in my opinion, awesome movie "Contact":

I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?

I'm absolutely certain there is external life, though the chance we'll EVER see them is highly unlikely.

whether they're very advanced and have space ships etc, most likely yes.

btw, replying to the person that said that the universe is not infinite: you're right, but it's the closest thing to infinity we'll ever experience

the universe has a radius of about 10 billion lightyears... knowing that 1 lightyear is 9 500 000 000 000 kilometers, the universe has a radius of...
95 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 km

[giggleniggle]

I can just imagine that.

YOU:Yeah, Im looking for a universe. Sorta hard to miss. It's about.. ye big. -hands stretch on for ages-
OFFICER:what the heck?!

[Anoohilator]

Think of it this way - what are the odds of there NOT being aliens out there?

Look at it this way.
What where the odds of Earth being formed in the tiny area where life as we understand it could exist.

What where the chances of the Impactor striking the earth at just the right time, and at just the right speed and angle to spin the earths rotation up enough for it to be warmed.

What was the chance that the random neutrino would strike at just the right moment to spark Evolution...

Fair point, but of the millions of other solar systems the odds of some of those things happening (maybe not exactly like it did to earth) is likely. For the sake of arguement let's assume that there's only one other planet with life and 10 million planets out there that's a 0.0000002% chance of being life on someplace else than earth. I'm pretty certain there's more than 10 million planets out there but obviously we can't be sure.. yet.

EDIT: Dunno if I worded that correctly but you get the point

[zorg]

*pops in* I read in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" that whilst the natural combination of amino acids is possible in primordial world (eg - the whole methane, co2 h20 thingy plus leccy), the chances of those amino acids aligning in the exact correct way to make a protein is tiny tiny

Ie, a slot machine 300km long getting everything exactly lined up.

Just thought you might want to know

[SpiraLethe]

... because the way we know life is the end all and be all? The only way?

There are plenty of things in this vast universe that we haven't even begun to understand (including our own planet).

I'm sure aliens exist, but if they exist in a form that we would understand, I don't know. Like I said, even if they are like the aliens we imagine them to be, it doesn't mean they're advanced enough to visit us. And even if they are, why would they want to? What if they have better things to do? Or they've already made contact with other aliens elsewhere? Who knows.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

After watching an episode of Doctor Who, where they crashed the TARDIS into a parallel universe, where it's basically a version of the world but different, I'm really starting to wonder if a parallel would does actually exist. We will never know what lies out there in the universe. Heck, there could be dinosours out there. Or creatures similar. Other planets, very distant from our planet and the planets of this galaxy, might be going through their prehistoric ages. Others might be millions of years more advanced than we are and travel using transoprtation beams and the like. There are a million and one different things that you could think of in your head and they ALL could be happening out there. But we were meant to never find out, EVER, and that's the way it will be. We're nothing compared to the universe. We're just tiny specs of dust with no clue as to what's happening and we're not meant to find out what's out there in the universe. We can believe and we can wonder and we can hope and dream. Nothing more.

[cipher_text]

well then if that is the limit to the knowledge we "can" possess, i think we (humans) have done pretty good so far. At least we know that we live in a "universe" and that we may not only be restricted to our Earth, think of it, we are the only species on this chunk of rock that evolved and excelled enough to find out about our surroundings thus far.
It is amazing the way we can so drastically change our surroundings year by year.

(If the same "restrictions" hold what are we supposed to find?
IF i were to adopt that way of thinking then i guess we were "allowed" to find out about radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum, nuclear fusion/fission, and evolution and so on.)

[WIS]

to quote the, in my opinion, awesome movie "Contact":

I high five you. You are awsome.

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But yes, I do believe they exist... But here's a thought... What if they were shaped like rocks and never moved? :O

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

to quote the, in my opinion, awesome movie "Contact":

I high five you. You are awsome.

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But yes, I do believe they exist... But here's a thought... What if they were shaped like rocks and never moved? :O

That leads to another question. What if rocks are actually living creatures? We throw em', we hit people we don't like with them, we tread on them, in my brother's case we eat them (he really did used to eat rocks when he was younger), we do loads of things that would be considered downright cruel if done to an animal, but these poor rocks could in fact be animals themselves! I will never abuse a rock again. Never.