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do aliens exist?

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:00

i'm in two minds really..

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:08

c'mon you must have some sort of opinion!

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MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 16/12/2006 22:12

yes. im 100% certain they do.

MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 16/12/2006 22:14

it is inconceivable that in an infinate universe, with god knows how many billions of planets, ours is the only one with life on it.

i mean there's arrogant and there's arrogant, y'know?!!!

MistleToo · 16/12/2006 22:16

I really don't know but then I really don't know if there's a God.

I don't see why one should be any more believable than the other.

AlienEarsUnderSantasHat · 16/12/2006 22:16

Course we do!

bran · 16/12/2006 22:19

That depends on what you mean really. I think it's highly likely that there is bacterial life in other parts of the universe, and probably in our solar system too. Hopefully that will be proved before too long.

I think it's likely that there is other intelligent, even technological life in the universe, but the huge distances involved mean that we will probably never be sure.

I don't believe in the Hollywood definition of aliens, that they are already here/watching us.

themoon66 · 16/12/2006 22:22

I can never get my head around how massive the universe is... and where does it end? Are we just tiny things living on a molecule that is part of something else... blows my mind (especially on a saturday with a bottle of white down me neck).

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:25

i know that's what freaks me out too, i read too many ufo books! but they're meant to be quite visible in your area moon? have you seen any (disused aerodrome sites!!)

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trying2bgood · 16/12/2006 22:25

pretty sure there must be life out there albeit not necessarily remotely like us!

themoon66 · 16/12/2006 22:31

SEA... there are loads of old aerodromes left over from the war here, but i've not seen a UFO. My friend's DP is a UFO nutter and dragged her out of bed at 2am once to see one. She said it was orange and oblong and hovered for ages befoe whizzing off.

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:35

my dad saw a triangle shaped one here and he's not one to make up things, i'd like to think there was a more intelligent lifeform out there other than us!! hahehhe

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themoon66 · 16/12/2006 22:38

The thing I always wonder is, why would they want to visit us

Its a bit like taking a look at Skegness when you could be off to the Bahamas.

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:41

maybe they don't have anything else to look at!!skegness is probably more interesting than bahamas too

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themoon66 · 16/12/2006 22:42

Bet you've not been to Skeg?

bran · 16/12/2006 22:43

Well people on this planet make careers out of studying things that I would stamp on if one crawled across my floor, so why wouldn't some aliens want to study us? I think the huge distances are the biggest barrier to alien contact. It's a really, really long way between solar systems, never mind between galaxies.

FairyTaleOfNewYork · 16/12/2006 22:45

southeastra was that over guy fawkes night? there was a 'triangular formation' above our home moving slowly, it was sighted all across the area. the papers went mad lol.

MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 16/12/2006 22:45

if aliens do come here, it's probably to point and laugh.

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southeastastra · 16/12/2006 22:48

no he saw it about 10 years ago, but there have been similar sightings in our neck of woods ftofny

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themoon66 · 16/12/2006 22:59

ROFL at MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth. Although I must admit to believing that they must exist due to size of universe etc... there is no way at all that there is only us here... [echo, echo voice into endless nothingness of universe emoticon]

Hallgerda · 18/12/2006 08:21

I agree with MTPW - furthermore, in such a vast universe, at least some of them must be green with almond eyes and all the other standard attributes

yULeYSEES · 18/12/2006 08:32

Oh know don't mention where does it end.......

I once had an experience that I later put down to alien. A friend of my SIL also had a similar experience at the same time with the same type of creature. I saw 3 she only saw 1. She told me hers before I even mentioned mine. I was around age 11 or 12 and she was an adult.

bran · 18/12/2006 10:31

Didn't all this supposition about aliens coming to Earth start back in the 60s when people thought that technology and space exploration would continue to develop at a rapid pace? The assumption was that other civilizations would develop the same way on other planets and a certain proportion of them would be advanced enough to travel around the galaxy.

Now the more popular theory is that any civilization is unlikely to get beyond a certain stage as there are so many dangers, because of either man-made (alien-made?) causes or natural events. Perhaps we are now almost as advanced as any civilization will ever get, in which case there will never be inter-stellar travel by intelligent beings. Plus the more that we know about space travel the harder we realise it is.

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