Do you believe in Aliens?

[txteach]

I for one can't believe that we are the only intelligent life in such a vast place. To me there must be something else out there. As far as them visiting us, well I'm not too sure about that. I guess a very advanced race could view us as lab rats.

[spaceace35]

yup i sure do

[spiderrogue]

i think that there are other beings out there too, just dont really want to believe it tho'. kinda creepy to think about it...lol..but as long as they are the nice ones, it would be ok, i guess...

[huedell]

I for one can't believe that we are the only intelligent life in such a vast place. To me there must be something else out there. As far as them visiting us, well I'm not too sure about that. I guess a very advanced race could view us as lab rats.

Either consciously or subconsciously that's what we would become
if history was to be used as a measuring stick.

Any advanced society invading on a less advanced one envelops and
spits out whatever was left.

God help us if ever there is a day aliens arrive on our planet.

[The Bat]

I believe Carl Sagan said it best.."If We are alone in the Universe...it certainly is a waste of Space."

[jwyblejr]

If they are really advanced,I'm sure they figure we aren't worth their time and effort to bother with. View us as being the trailer trash of the universe,for lack of a better term.

[huedell]

If they are really advanced,I'm sure they figure we aren't worth their time and effort to bother with. View us as being the trailer trash of the universe,for lack of a better term.

Yeah, until they run out of food, water, oxygen etc.

[spiderrogue]

if aliens do exist and decide to invade earth, we are screwed...especially if they have seen any of the good aliens invadeing earth flicks that are out there.

[Bo8a_Fett]

difficult to ignore the evidence...I mean they've starred in hundreds of films...like E.T.,Alien,Extro,ID4,The Thing...I mean there's ,
millions of them right?

[Hector]

Yes, I do believe they exist, the universe is just too vast for us to be the only ones.

However, I don't believe they are here on Earth, the distances are just too great even for a civilization a million-years more advanced than ours.

Exists? Yes.

Here on Earth? No.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

We always assume that other life is going to be more advanced or intelligent. . . so I propose that yes, Life is very very likely to develope elsewhere in the universe. . .intelligent life. . . given the number of stars you would have to think so. . . however, how do we not know. . .that so far. . .we are the pinnacle, and life elsewhere is still slime, plant life or lower order beings. . .and so far we are winning the race.

We know that stars didn't ignite for about 400 millions years after the big bang. Then they started forming and it takes another billion or more years to start forming systematised Galaxies and such expanding to a degree with sufficiently low pressures or temperatures for life like structures to even have a likelihood of initial development. . .but first you have to have several cycles of star formation and death, exploding cores, which then regroup and give rise to new stars. . .to create the heavier elements such as carbon, iron etc.. .that life needs to start forming in the first place.

Then those reforming stars need time to develop planetary systems for life to develop on, and not all stars do this. Of course the larger the star the greater the pressures and the smaller the life span - some super massive stars might only last 10 million years (Better to burn out than to fade away so to speak), which may speed up the life necessary element availability.

Now some estimates place the time elapse since initial Big Bang to be 13 to 15 Billion years. Our Sun is 5 Billion and is Middle Aged with 5 billion left. We loose a few billion years at the start before the first stars develop, or form galaxies, then a few more billion for pressures, temperatures to decrease and for the necessary elements to become available from multiple Star birth death cycles.

We may very well be the first life to get this far. And our belief in super advanced beings crushing us like bugs. . . nothing more than our primeval fears, in built of the boogyman.

[FullerDawg]

Yea , Theres alot of illegal ones here in NC.

[BlackKnight]

Yea , Theres alot of illegal ones here in NC.

& Yes I do believe in extraterestrials . The Universe is so Vast and huge as well as unexplored. It would be stupid to think ,.. "we are the only ones" . I think though,.. if we ever see something, it will be more like War of the Worlds,... Rather than some Vulcans giving us some interaction & Technology.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

Completely agree with you on that one BK. . .and Spiderrogue too.

We are TOAST if any come here. We wouldn't even be considered lab rats. . .just space occupying vermin to be exterminated.

[spiderrogue]

humans are trying to explore other parts of the solar system..mars, the moon, etc...who's to say that aliens(if they exist) arent trying the same thing? and i agree with BK, my thoughts too...more war of the worlds, ID4 type of thing....